The City recently purchased Laserfiche, a new software system that will improve records management and retention efficiency and allow departments to create workflows that should improve processes and eliminate lots of paper bottlenecks. City Manager and City Attorney offices are piloting the program and are shown in here in initial training. Other departments will be added soon! Thanks to Erika Roberts and Cate Schneider for their implementation assistance!
City Council is accepting applications for the Transportation and Parks and Recreation Advisory Boards. TAB applications are due by February 28 and PRAB applications must be submitted by March 15. Applications are posted on the City website.
If you’ve been reading the news recently, lots of fairly large companies have been getting their defenses penetrated by the “bad guys,” usually looking for data they can sell.
Although most of the City’s data is freely shared with the Public, keeping our defenses current is a job we take seriously.
To keep up with security, the IT Department is upgrading its two eight year old firewalls which segregate our main city Local Area Network from our Wide Area Network known as the BUG (the Broadband User’s Group) which has it’s own network of firewalls that keep us safe from the internet. One of those two firewalls actually segregates the Police Department from the rest of the City traffic as a compliance measure with the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS)