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• Moved all equipment from the old Library to the Fire, Police, Shellfish, Conservation, Leisure new temp location and created new network at Services, Selectman, etc. the temporary Library. Participated in all meet- ings for the new Library to assure a smooth tran- Collaborated with regional municipal and county sition and state of the art computing environ- GIS professionals to further discussions toward a ment. regional approach to GIS data collection and data sharing aimed at developing significant cost • Added a new 900Mhz Base Station at Town Hall sharingmeasures. to connect Heritage Park to our network to pro- vide Internet access and application access to Designed and implemented scanning procedure Chamber of Commerce and Heritage Park. for digitally archiving all building and septic plans maintained by the Town of Mashpee. • Added new Fire Substation to our wireless net- work to support fire safety initiatives in South Continued cooperation between Town offices Mashpee. and School Department by promoting Geographic education through "GIS Day" activ- • Added network capabilities to the new location ities at Mashpee High School. for Mashpee Human Services. Goals for Fiscal 2009 • Performed all administration changes, permis- sion levels, and desktop software installation and • To provide consistent, cost effective and secure testing to enable Town and School employees to connectivity to all Data Processing Resources use Purchase Requisitions. Expect to roll out in for all Town of Mashpee departments as dictated February 2009. by the Town Manager. • Upgraded MUNIS to Version 6.4b and trained • To evaluate, recommend, purchase, and imple- all departments on some minor changes. ment a standardized phone network for all Town and School buildings utilizing today's Internet • Evaluated Town Cellular Contract and migrated Protocol based networks,to achieve the ability to 30 phones to AT+T from Nextel,resulting in bet- manage our own moves, adds, changes without ter coverage, better phones, additional features, costly vendor support. and an overall cost savings of$3,000. • To implement a town wide network of surveil- - Continued support of all PBX Phone systems in lance cameras to provide increased security for all Town offices. Started analyzing existing all town assets. phone systems with the School I.T. staff and plan . To achieve strong technical skills in using on presenting a better solution to both the Town What's Up Gold Premium Network and School in mid 2009. Management Software to monitor all pc's, • Continued learning with MUNIS and taking a servers, access points, antennas within our net- proactive lead in assuring its' success and expan- work to proactively manage and support the net- s work. ion. • • To monitor both Wireless Backbones for traffic Created supporting map documents for patterns and to load balance network devices at Conservation Dept's Land Steward Program. Remote Offices to better manage Wireless • Expanded Remote Access in-vehicle GIS pro- Network bandwidth. gram across 3 additional Fire vehicles. • To evaluate and purchase a backup tape device to • shorten the overall backup window and to man- Updated the Assessor's maps and subsequent GIS parcel data. Printed new formal Assessors' age increases in data volume as we add new applications. map book for use in Assessing Dept. • Continued map creation support for Town • To greatly expand the types of Permits, Stickers, departments including: DPW, Planning, Clerk, and Applications that can be purchased over the Internet via Credit and Debit Cards to enable res- it idents to save a trip to Town Hall. 'I it 123