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COMMISSION AGENDA
ITEM
B
CONSENT X
INFORMATIONAL
PUBLIC HEARING
REGULAR
ADD-ON
5-10-99
Meeting
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Authonzation
REQUEST: The Information Services Department is requesting that the
Commission approve the expenditure of funds in the amount of
$22,945.00 plus a 10% contingency for the replacement of certain
hardware and software for unexpected Y2K issues and networking
problems that have arisen.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to request that the Commission approve funds
for replacement and or upgrade of financial system hardware, operating
system, and database engine software. The application software will not
change. The application software is due to be upgraded for Y2K in June.
CONSIDERA TIONS:
The current financial system hardware and software was originally
purchased in 1994 from NCR. The hardware is an older type Microchannel
bus which, in conjunction with the older operating system, makes it
impossible to network on Category 5 Ethernet topology; because the
hardware is based on a Microchannel bus, there is no Ethernet 100MB
network card available that will work with the older operating system. The
system is also not Y2K compliant.
Our applications software, Pentamation, includes our Fund Accounting,
Purchasing, Occupational Licenses, Payroll/Human Resources, Fixed
Assets, and Utility Billing. These will be upgraded in June of this year.
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Agenda Item - Consent B
May 10, 1999
FUNDING:
Funding will come from General Fund Reserves and Utility Enterprise Fund
Balance.
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommend the Commission approve this request for $22,945.00 with 10%
contingency.
IMPLEMENTA TION SCHEDULE:
Hardware and software acquisition will begin upon Commission approval and
issuance of purchase orders.
ATTACHMENTS: Itemized Costs Sheet
COMMISSION ACTION:
\\CITYHALL]DC\JDALKA\Docs\DOCS\Agenda Items\Unix hardware software upgrade. doc
Unix/Financial System
Replacement Upgrade
Itemized Cost Sheet
Description
Amount
$5,150.00
$2,056.00
$598.00
$11,516.00
Hardware
Unix OS
seo Unix Development including O/S compiler
Informix
Project Implementation and Adm. (Ameritek)
Informix loading & configuration (Florida Software)
Pentamation (load application software onto new server)
$1,325.00 25@$53
$1,500.00 $125/hour
$800.00 8@$100/hour
$22,945.00
Pentamation application upgrades (Y2K in June)
new unix box project.xls