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Commissioners approve phone system, equipment leases and procurement steps to cut jail pharmaceutical costs
Summary
The court authorized a cloud-based phone system via RingCentral (ETCOG interlocal), approved pre-bid lease-purchase of four dump trucks, cleared several utility and surplus asset items, and directed procurement staff to pursue pharmaceutical RFP specifications to reduce jail and indigent medication costs.
IT Manager Charles Nininger briefed the court on a year-and-a-half evaluation of cloud phone vendors and recommended RingCentral via ETCOG as the best value. He reviewed a five-year proposal, compliance and administrative fees, e9-1-1 and federal universal service fund charges, and an implementation plan that would stage departments into the cloud-based service.
"We felt that... RingCentral was the best match for the county,"…
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