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Committee backs migration of Tyler Munis as county weighs days-long disaster recovery target
Summary
The Finance & Rules Committee heard an IT disaster-recovery briefing and unanimously forwarded a resolution to migrate Lewis County’s Tyler Munis ERP to a hosted platform, accepting higher recurring costs to reduce local operational risk.
Conner Biolsi, Lewis County’s director of information technology, told the Finance & Rules Committee on Feb. 24 that the county’s primary data center in the courthouse basement concentrates “core systems and internet connectivity” and creates risk to operations if that facility is compromised. He said some data are replicated to cloud services, but primary operations remain dependent on on-site infrastructure and backup frequency varies by application criticality.
Biolsi outlined options ranging from full active redundancy to warm or cold spares and said the committee informally accepted a risk posture that would measure recovery objectives in days rather than hours. He told legislators staff will pursue two grant funding buckets plus an approved capital allocation to improve resiliency and that one option under consideration is migrating the Tyler Munis ERP to a cloud-hosted model to reduce local operational reliance.
The committee unanimously forwarded Draft Resolution No. 2, which would authorize an agreement with Tyler Technologies to migrate the county to a hosted ERP for a one-time fee of $5,000 and first-year software, licensing and maintenance costs of $72,322, funded through the 2026 IT budget and contingency funds. The motion to forward was made by Legislator Jeffrey Nellenback and seconded by Legislator Thomas Osborne; the committee vote was recorded AYE 4, NAY 0.
Why it matters: moving the ERP off-site is intended to shorten recovery work for essential financial and administrative systems after an outage, but it increases recurring operating costs that will appear in future budgets. Committee members asked staff to define exact recovery time objectives for mandated services and to quantify additional budget needs if the county pursues tighter service-level agreements.
Next steps: staff will pursue grant applications and capital funding and return with more detailed recovery-time objectives and budget estimates before the full Board acts on the resolution.
