County sticks with New World

Whitman County will stick with its costly New World accounting software. Commissioners Monday voted unanimously to sign a maintenance deal with the firm through 2014.

The three-year contract begins with retroactive coverage to the beginning of 2012. For this year’s maintenance, the county will pay $42,020. That escalates to $44,120 in 2013 and $46,770 in 2014.

Under the contract, New World will provide software upgrades, bug fixes, licenses to run the program and telephone tech support.

“It certainly makes you take pause,” Commissioner Michael Largent said of the expense.

Largent earlier this...