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Mobridge council approves $61,550 server upgrade to prevent outages
Summary
Council approved starting a $61,550 server upgrade with work to begin immediately and invoicing deferred to 2026; vendor said the upgrade will add redundancy and faster recovery from failures though it does not eliminate all ransomware risk.
The Mobridge City Council on Nov. 12 approved authorizing HighPoint Networks to begin work on a $61,550 server upgrade intended to add redundancy and shorten recovery time for city systems that currently run on a single server.
Council members heard from Jason Herner, HighPoint’s representative, who said the city’s existing setup runs police dispatch, file services and Active Directory off a single server without failover. ‘‘We’re essentially trying to take an antiquated system that’s just stand alone, and we’re trying to make it a lot more redundant and resilient,’’ Herner told the council, describing a two‑server configuration that would allow one machine to take over without user interruption.
Herner and staff flagged recent hardware problems and an impending maintenance event that could require taking hardware offline. The vendor estimated the project at $61,550 and said the city could start the work now and defer invoicing until the project completes in 2026. Council members discussed budget timing and cost sharing across departments; staff said portions of the cost would be borne by the PSAP/911 fund and apportioned across departments by usage.
On cybersecurity, a councilmember asked whether the platform would prevent ransomware; Herner said the proposed setup would not stop every attack but would allow the city to restore from snapshots and recover more quickly if systems are encrypted.
The council voted unanimously to authorize work to start now with payment processed when the project is complete in 2026.
