Finance Committee - 02/19/2020 Page 2
Alderman Klee
Yes thank you Mr. Mayor. At the State of the City you had commented and addressed that we were going to
try to save money by merging a lot of our IT Departments and so on. So would this be one of them that we will
try to eventually ....
Mayor Donchess
We are going to propose that we study the idea of trying to save money.
Alderman Klee
| just wanted to make sure.
Mayor Donchess
There are a few people on the Police Department, there are quite a few people at City Hall and there are quite
a few people at the School Department.
Alderman Klee
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
But this software wouldn’t be affected.
Alderwoman Lu
This is just the maintenance, so if you went with someone else, you’d have to buy a brand new system,
correct?
Mr. Cinfo
Correct. Yes unfortunately this is one of those items that there’s no real shopping around per se.
Alderwoman Lu
And is it the same price as it was?
Mr. Cinfo
It traditionally goes up a couple of percent. | think last year — actually | can tell you last year | think, it was like
$64,000.00.
Alderman O’Brien
And for what little | understand of it, would | be correct in assuming if you don’t get this particular upgrade it
may void the warranty that is on this system, am | correct?
