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Auditor, IT and finance advisers warn county ERP and timeclocks are at end-of-life; court asks staff to return with financing options
Summary
Auditor and IT staff told commissioners that the county's financial system and time clocks are approaching end-of-life and that a modern integrated ERP/HR/timekeeping replacement is likely in the $4—$6 million range; the court asked finance staff and outside advisors to model hybrid funding options (COs, certificates of obligation, use of 2021 CO balances or ARPA) and report back.
The county auditor and the IT director told the court that the county's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial system and the vendor-managed timeclocks have reached end-of-life and require replacement within the year.
Auditor Dale explained that servers and some vendor components will no longer be supported and that migrating to a vendor's new system may create workflow regressions without careful selection of a modern, fully integrated solution. "If we stay with our current system, they would be required to shift to their new software," he said, adding that counties that migrated…
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