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County staff recommend switching to Granicus/Legistar for agenda management and streaming; first‑year cost cited at $81,239
Summary
County staff told commissioners that changing their agenda and streaming system to Granicus/Legistar would improve recording, camera control and closed captioning; staff cited a first‑year cost of $81,239 and recurring annual costs of $61,527.16, and said camera/audio hardware issues will require additional spending.
County staff recommended upgrading the county’s agenda management and streaming system to a Granicus solution (Legistar/Granicus streaming) to address software obsolescence, camera mismatches and closed‑captioning requirements.
Ms. Battle told commissioners the county currently uses IQM2, which has changed hands among vendors, and staff and the system engineer (WH Platts) evaluated alternatives. She provided cost estimates: a first‑year cost of $81,239 and recurring annual costs of $61,527.16 if the county moved to the Granicus/Legistar streaming solution. She said an alternative that included only Legistar (no streaming service) had a higher one‑time cost referenced in the transcript and that current payments total approximately $52,008.86 per year for the existing service.
Ms. Battle noted that audio and camera hardware in the chambers are mismatched and would require additional, as‑yet‑undetermined expense to integrate with a new system. She said LaGrange IT and the system engineer had evaluated the proposal and that the board would see the item on the evening agenda for formal consideration.
