2001-03-12 SP
SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING
MARCH 12, 2001
MTG. #11
RES. 121-1225:30 P.M.
TOWN BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT
SUPERVISOR DENNIS BROWER
COUNCILMAN JAMES MARTIN
COUNCILMAN THEODORE TURNER
COUNCILMAN DANIEL STEC
COUNCILMAN TIM BREWER
TOWN DEPARTMENT HEADS
HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT RICK MISSIT A
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BOB KEENAN
DIRECTOR OF BUILDING AND CODES CHUCK RICE
LANDFILL SUPERINTENDENT JIM COUGHLIN
TOWN ASSESSOR HELEN OTTE
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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY COUNCILMAN TIM BREWER
DISCUSSIONS
GOVERN STATUS UPDATE AND REVIEW
Director Keenan-Gave a presentation to the Town Board on the history of the Govern Software. Search
started in 1999 when the Community Development software for building permits and inspections was not
Y2K compliant, also looking for a product that would be integrated to be used by more than one office.
November of 1999 the Town signed an agreement with Govern software which included software for the
wastewater and water department including billing, the Clerk's office the accounts receivable package,
Community Development called land management and the Assessors Office. First step was conversion of
core data, which is the parcel information, noted right from the start there were difficulties in the
conversion especially with the owner's names. First Department to go on line was the water/waster water
department and utility billing and after that Community Development. All the named departments use the
software on a daily basis except Assessor's Office, which updates the core information when deeds are fild.
The Assessor's Office uses RPS for their base work. Noted Warren County is very interested in how our
data and the format of our data are received by them, they will use said data to produce tax bills for the
school and town. Noted at present Warren County is using RPS version three, concerned about data
coming from RPS four and also they do not like the format from the Govern system. Noted the County is
trying to convert to RPS four not sure if they will have problems with the AS400 they have told us that they
want to hold off until October to convert all the other towns in the County to the RPS four. Spoke about
the new tax map numbers for the Town, Warren County has to implement that change, noted there will be a
public meeting in April on the tax map number changes. Govern Issues: Not satisfied with the initial layout
of the screens, not liking the number of screens to do data entry, some performance issues, speed, records
locking, we have found that the users are frustrated with the software, thre have been on going problems,
especially the Clerk's office with the way some of the transactions are occurring the information that they
are getting out of it. Noted that there have been a number of problems in creating reports from the software
that the County wanted. At this point what I feel should happen that we try to work with the County to
move to the RPS version four software. Noted that the Town will be moving to a Microsoft SQL server we
will increase the performance of the data base, we will not have the record locking issues and a better
backup of the system. Govern 7.0 software has been released, which will allow us to customize screens.
Issues with Clerk's Dept. is the breaking out of penalties between various districts, we got a decision from
the State Comptrollers office noted that it is not an issue with the State Comptrollers Office, also noting
that the Clerk is still not satisfied with it.
COUNCILMAN BREWER-Questioned if we would be dumping Govern and get RPS?
DIRECTOR KEENAN-Noted we would not be dumping either, we would be moving to the next version of
RPS which is what the County wants us to do, we would stay with Govern software for the Departments
that we have it in at this point.
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