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Seminole council approves hosted phone service with Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative after council questions; one abstention

2112032 · January 15, 2025
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Summary

Council approved a service agreement to move city facilities to a hosted phone solution with Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative at $1,695 per month; the item drew extended technical questions, an abstention from Councilmember Corey Crabtree, and assurances staff will terminate the prior provider without early-termination charges.

The Seminole City Council voted to approve a hosted phone service agreement with Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative (CVEC) for city facilities at a cost of $1,695 per month.

City IT staff member Sean explained the change was intended to simplify the city’s multi-vendor phone network and avoid long-term risk from aging hardware. “If our PBX, our server basically, server goes down, there's not a lot of options to replace that,” Sean said, describing the current NEC-based hardware as…

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