| This warrant proposes to fund the 3rd year of a 3 year
technology refresh plan for the Municipal buildings. Year 3 of the
plan completes the purchase of standardized hardware, software, networking
and server components used to operate Town functions. Year 1 refreshed
the Municipal Center, Year 2 refreshed the Police and Fire Departments, and
Year 3 will focus on the Library, Senior Center, Transfer Station, Highway
Dept and server components. |
Technology Plan Accomplishments
2006 Plan
- Refresh remaining
Library PCs
- Refresh Sr. Center
PCs
- Refresh Fire Station
fire fighter PCs – used to do call response reports
- Refresh Transfer
Station PC
- Upgrade Power
Distribution Units (PDU) in MB and Police computer rooms
- Replace 8 year old
APC Backup units (batteries won’t hold a charge)
- Refreshed Police file
server to Microsoft 2003
- Refresh 17 obsolete
Police PC’s, replacing Windows 98 systems
- Refresh 4 Fire
Department PCs (front office) – main purpose for interoperability with
Police Dispatch software
- Work with Library
Trustees to continue to extend life of existing systems until 2006
- Replaced 2 failed
printers at Library
- All file servers are
now MS 2003
- MB, Police, Fire, and
most Library systems have been upgraded to Windows XP SP2
2004 Accomplishments
- Refreshed all
Municipal Building (MB) PC’s to Windows XP and Office 2003
- Redeployed 3 systems
to the Sr. Center, replacing Windows 95 systems
- Refreshed 5 systems
in the Library, replacing Windows 95 systems
- Implemented CTC
fractional T1 for reliable data communications, will be migrating to
Adelphia
- Implemented two
Netscreen firewalls for network protection
- Implemented
multi-mode fiber between MB, Police, Fire and Library
- Implemented Veritas
backup server that backs ups server reliably
- Implemented HP
LaserJet printer for Planning Department
- Replaced HP LaserJet
printer for Assessor, old one died
- Established a
designated computer room in the Municipal Building
- Established a
designated computer room in the Police Station
- Implemented
structured wiring within Municipal Building, Police Station and Library
- Implemented 5
Microsoft 2003 servers
- Primary domain
controller in MB
- File/Print server
in MB
- Dedicated backup
server in MB
- Library server in
MB
- Fire Department
server in MB
- Implemented updated
PC Anywhere PC for external Vision and BMSI support
- Implemented three
Cisco Cat 5000 10/100 switches for high performance networking
2003 Technology Plan
- Completed Town wide
technology plan
- Established
Technology Advisory Committee
- Established PC
standards, RFP bidding process completed, awarded to Dell
- Presented to BUDCOM,
agreed to split refresh over 3 year period
- Requested $35k
technology warrant for 2004 ballot
2002 Draft Technology Plan
- Completed town wide
inventory
- Completed Town wide
data security and technology assessment
- Establish PC
standards
IT Projects
- General Projects
- Correct power
problems with ACP UPS systems and power distribution
- MS Exchange – bring
email in-house, common calendar, contacts, email distribution
- MS Sharepoint –
further development of an intranet to provide a single location to store
electronic documents
- Sr. Center WAN
connection – phone, video DVR and internet
- DVR system extension
at MB, Sr. Center, Transfer Station, PVMP, Muldoon, Raymond Park
- Library
- Public access
wireless
- More Athena web
services enabled (no cost)
- Planning Department
- Building Permit
system currently running on SCO Unix to MuniSmart – in process
- GPS planning (we have
capable PC’s, plotter and network)
- Accounting
- MuniSmart module
implementation – in process
- Assessor
- Vision Appraisal
upgrade v4.x to v6.x - will be completed fall 2006 after revaluation
- Fire Department
- IMC integration with
Police Dispatch - complete
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