Hamtramck council approves migration to cloud-based BS&A system, OKs multiple park and parking contracts

Hamtramck — The Hamtramck City Council on Aug. 12 approved a contract to migrate the city's core municipal software suite (BS&A) from aging on-premises servers to a cloud-hosted subscription and separately approved a series of construction and engineering awards for Veterans Park and nearby streets.

City IT staff told the council the current .NET-based servers are reaching end-of-life and that continuing to defer migration increases the risk of failures and security gaps. “Support for that is officially ending next year,” the IT presenter said, urging the council to accept vendor concessions and the timing of an implementation window to begin training and data migration in September and October.

The migration package the council approved includes an initial net cost to the city of roughly $150,000 to be paid from the general fund and an ongoing annual subscription fee the presenter gave as about $92,007.06. Staff said they had located roughly $82,000–$83,000 in grant funding that would offset part of the up-front cost, and that the city’s current annual hosting/support costs run about…