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Consideration of and action on an ordinance amending the Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Budget for the City's wide area network upgrade and network security.
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Summary: The Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Budget included a project for the City's wide area network upgrade, which was not completed during the fiscal year. Assigned fund balance of the General Fund for Fiscal Year 2014-2015 included $35,618 for the portion of the project specifically related to City Hall. A budget amendment to the Fiscal Year 2015-2016 budget in the amount of $41,932 was approved in August 2016 when the project was expected to start. That amount included expenditures related to the Court/Theater Building, which is also part of the wide area network upgrade. The source of funding for that portion of the project was prior year revenues from the Municipal Court Special Revenue Fund.
Due to the decision to change the design for the City Hall communications tower for increased wind load and also due to the consideration of new options related to the expansion of the parking lot behind City Hall, which will affect the location of the tower, this project was again delayed and will not be completed until 2017.
The Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Budget for the IT Department included $12,500 for network penetration testing and $60,000 for contract security services, both related to testing the integrity and security of the City's network. With the retirement of the IT Director and the hiring of a new Director, this project was delayed to allow the new department head to become familiar with the City's overall operations and scope of the network security project. This project is now ready to begin and a budget amendment of $72,500 is proposed, with the source of funding the assigned fund balance of the General Fund (these monies will be assigned for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 as part of the annual audit).
Fiscal/Budgetary Impact:
A total of $114,432 as follows: $41,932 to upgrade the City's wide area netwo...
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