County staff presented a proposed service agreement with Service Express to provide hardware and software support for equipment located at the county Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

The Chair noted the item is a contract and while the purchase is within the current budget, it commits funds in future years and the Chair does not believe he has authority to approve contracts that commit unappropriated future funds without the commission's direction.

"Our main objective here is to basically, use this agreement because we're gonna repurpose equipment that we can still utilize for, an equipment of servers, storage, and switches for utilized for redundancy over at the EOC," the IT director said. He explained the configuration would replicate county data so the EOC could function as a "hot site" in a serious emergency.

The Chair asked for questions and then asked whether there were objections to placing the item on the agenda; none were raised in the provided transcript. The excerpt does not record a formal vote on approval of the contract itself.