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County keeps legacy dispatch system offline, approves Central Square contract contingent on intergovernmental agreement
Summary
After a public caution about missing data migration terms, the Stevens County Board approved a Central Square ProSuite contract contingent on signature of an intergovernmental agreement and agreed to keep the legacy LATG system offline for historical access while manually migrating permanent records.
The Stevens County Board of Commissioners on the record approved a contract to adopt Central Square’s ProSuite for dispatch and records, but did so with a contingency: the contract takes effect only after each involved county signs the intergovernmental agreement.
The decision followed public comment and staff briefings that highlighted data‑migration risks. Stoker, a resident who identified himself as a retired cybersecurity professional, told the board it appeared “data migration was not included in the contract,” warned against a shared LATG instance, and urged counties to consider local hosting or a joint‑powers agreement to protect data integrity and resiliency.
County staff told the board the vendor would quote a migration fee and did not guarantee perfect functionality. “They would charge us $65,000 just to do that, and they would not guarantee the functionality of that migration,” a county presenter said, explaining the county’s plan instead to keep the legacy LATG system unplugged from the network on a standalone computer and to manually migrate permanent records that must be retained.
The board’s contingency required that each county involved return a signed intergovernmental agreement before final execution. The vote to approve the Central Square master agreement was recorded as approved on the record with the contingency.
Why it matters: ProSuite will affect dispatch workflows, records retention and cross‑county sharing. Public concern centered on whether mission‑critical historic data and discrete local policies would be preserved and on cloud hosting resiliency. County staff emphasized manual preservation for permanently retained records and an intergovernmental step to formalize governance.
What’s next: Staff will circulate the intergovernmental agreement for signatures and proceed with the contingency terms; county staff said they will migrate only permanently retained files into ProSuite and maintain a standalone copy of LATG for historical reference.
