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OVERV]:EW: <br /> <br />In May of this year, the Police Department presented to council, a request for an <br />upgrade to a new computer system. This upgrade was requested for several reasons. <br />One of the primary reasons was that the current computer system will not run past <br />December 31m 1999, as it is not a year 2,000 capable system. <br /> <br />This primary issue means that the police department will lose it's entire record keeping <br />system on that date. This would include all past records as well as the ability to <br />continue to enter records, communicate with the state and national network and query <br />any vehicle or person data. <br /> <br />In addition, the current system has been running out of memory, is not able to be <br />upgraded to facilitate additional storage, and the minor changes made just to keep it <br />running have been very expensive. <br /> <br />OR]:G]:NAL PROPOSAL: <br /> <br />The department originally proposed allocating funds to join in with Sherburne County <br />on a shared records system which would be not only cost effective but would integrate <br />the dispatch center, records units and all users on one network configuration. <br /> <br />The system proposed was the MASYS Corporation Stratus system. Sherburne County is <br />using this system now. This corporation provides the ENFORS system that Elk River is <br />using currently. <br /> <br />The cost for the original system was $53,500 for the shared software with Sherburne <br />and a monthly maintenance cost of $945.00 a month. <br /> <br />We would need a local area network and server to facilitate the upgrade, and estimated <br />our network costs around $15,000.00. <br /> <br />The long-range goal was to install in car computers to complete the integration with a <br />cost per car factor of $10,000.00 for the Cerulean's PacketCluster mobile package. The <br />cost for ten squads would be $100,000 but the department has applied for a grant to <br />cover the majority of the Cerulean costs. <br /> <br />PROBLEM ]:DENT]:FTCAT]:ON: <br /> <br />Council approved the original project and the police department has proceeded forward <br />as planned. The project however has not been trouble free and in fact, several areas of <br />concern have risen which caused the department to re-evaluate the original proposal. <br />The concerns include the following items: <br /> <br /> <br />