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Board asks staff to clarify IT costs after public-health domain stops covering environmental health services
Summary
Environmental health staff reported their email/server was tied to public-health/PCS services that may be discontinued; the board asked staff to obtain cost estimates and invited the IT contractor to a future meeting to clarify domain, server and service charges.
Environmental health staff told supervisors that a computer, email account and server used by environmental health had been running on the public-health domain and under a vendor service plan that another department (public health) had funded. Staff said the department that had been funding a "golden service" advised that it would stop paying, potentially leaving environmental health to assume costs for a separate domain, server and support plan.
Jerry (an IT contact referenced in discussion) was asked to prepare cost figures and attend the next meeting so the board could decide whether environmental health should remain on the existing service or be separated. Board members said the status quo should remain until staff report numbers and that, in the meantime, hour-by-hour service calls could be paid from departmental budgets if needed.
Supervisors asked staff to invite Jerry and the vendor to a future meeting and to produce a clear breakdown of monthly maintenance versus one-time setup costs before any change to domain or server arrangements.
