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Mr. Price asked the Director of IT Leisha Meine about the back up power supply. She <br />stated that with the addition of a power system in the server room, it has not gone down. <br />As far as a back-up generator, that was handled by Public Works and Finance. Ms. <br />Watson stated that to purchase one that could power the whole City Hall, would be <br />approximately $117,000 and would not fit into this year’s budget. Mr. Price felt it would be <br />a travesty if the City could not have a central focus area for citizen support in a power <br />outage. <br />Mr. Glickert asked Ms. Meine about Professional Services dramatic decrease from 2009 to <br />2010. Ms. Meine stated that because of outside consultation work needed in the study of <br />co-location and a GIS system for 2009 and there were not any major projects for 2010. <br />The amount shown now is for network engineering support, level three. Mr. Glickert asked <br />why the Maintenance Contract about doubled from last year.Ms. Meine stated that the <br />majority of that cost is for the New World Financial software that was purchased. She <br />stated that this had a large maintenance cost. She also stated that there were two other <br />systems introduced in 2009, Citrix and the M Ware. Ms. Meine said that Ms. Watson <br />moved the maintenance cost from line item 726.06 to 721.10. Mr. Glickert asked why the <br />large increase in expenditure from telephone and pagers from 2007 to the present <br />proposal in 2010. Ms. Meine stated that in 2007 the telephone system was not housed in <br />the IT department. She said the cell phone charges are still charged within each <br />department. Mr. Glickert asked if the cell phone could not be consolidated for a lower <br />price. He asked about the large decrease in Software System and was told that the last <br />payment of the finance department software was in 2009. The only software approved for <br />2010 was for Public Works for $20,000. <br />Mr. Wagner asked about making the City’s website more user friendly. Ms. Meine stated <br />our website is a contract content managed program that is leased or rented from Civic <br />Plus. Their programmers have built this and they may be able to make some changes if <br />she could get some feed-backs. <br />Mr. Crow asked if the maintenance contract will be the same in the future. Ms. Meine said <br />that it is typical for maintenance contracts to increase each year by three percent. Ms. <br />Watson stated that we should go live soon with financial package, accounts payable, <br />purchasing, followed by revenue collection, human resources and payroll not too long <br />after. <br />Ms. Ricci was surprised that IT department was not aware that Councilmembers have <br />expressed their frustration with the City’s website. She stated that Webster Groves used <br />the same supplier and she found their website much easier to navigate through. Ms. Ricci <br />said that citizens have talked to her about not being able to find the financials on the <br />website. She asked if it would be cheaper to replace laptops with desktop computers. Ms. <br />Meine stated that laptops cost around $600 and would be cheaper than a desktop. Ms. <br />Meine said she tries to minimize laptop purchases as much as possible as they are easily <br />stolen. Ms. Ricci asked if Ms. Meine received her department’s financial statements and <br />she confirmed that she does. <br />Mayor Adams confirmed that the St. Louis County Municipal League is putting a new <br />universal radio communication system for police, fire and other emergency vehicles on the <br /> <br />