Finance - Information & Telecommunication Systems Division


Technology Services Division

This Division is a part of the Finance Department and provides support for all municipal departments with information systems and technology. This support starts with the service and maintenance of our existing technology and continues with forecasting and implementation of upgrades to our existing technical systems and new applications.

This fiscal year, July 2010 through June of 2011, provided several upgrades to existing technology over several departments. The most significant was an upgrade to the Fire Department Ambulance incident - billing reporting and mobile wireless system and associated hardware.

The City expanded the data storage capacity and availability. The expansion was used to facilitate the electronic archiving of municipal records, plans of buildings and utilities and evedinal video storage.

The City’s Wide Area Network is routed though T1’s (provided by SoVerNet through FairPoint). This communication network between City Hall and the outlying facilities of the Public Works Garage, Waste Water Treatment Plant and Water Filtration Facility in Berlin is configured to enhance the secure management of the potable water and waste water systems and radio communications between the garage and various remote units. All firewalls and gateways were upgraded both for security and reporting capabilities

The City continues to maintain its communication link with the local and world wide community via the internet. This communication and research tool also provides increasing levels of risk for the City’s hardware, software and data. Our goal is to provide the City an effective and adequate level of security. The City continues to maintain a sophisticated firewall, virus protection standards and a redundant daily full system backup will insure the integrity and continued performance of the network and its applications.

FRED SKEELS, Technology Services Manager: fskeels@montpelier-vt.org