WABASH COUNTY, Ind. – After several recent issues with some of the county’s servers, the commissioners voted to spend $123,614.33 to upgrade them.
County Coordinator Jim Dils noted that the county’s geographic information system server had to be shut down at least four times recently, and that the tax server needed work done by Intrasect to stay up and running through the spring tax season.
He added that the replacements have been discussed for nearly a year.
Joe Wright, a network engineer with Intrasect Technologies, presented information on the current servers and the planned replacements at the commissioners’ Monday, April 10, meeting.
“[The tax server] is still a 2003 operating system; GIS is still a 2003 operating system. The other virtual servers… are 2008 servers,” Wright said.
“The counters on the physical drives [in the GIS server] say that they’ve been running over 10 years at this point, which I believe is accurate. The other equipment in there is roughly six years old.”
He said that they want to put in new hardware, and get the operating systems up-to-date so that they will continue to receive patches and security updates.
The commissioners also approved at least $3,955.45 to replace a water pump assembly in the county’s cooling tower.
Dils said that the parts estimate is $3,955.45, and that the labor cannot be estimated due to the complex nature of the job of removing the old assembly and installing the new one.
Additionally, Dils requested and the commissioners approved spending $3,005 on a 10×20 foot shed.
“Now that we’ve vacated the old jail, we lost some storage area of some of our lawn equipment,” Dils said.
“To stay within city zoning requirements, 200 square feet is the most we can utilize. That’s why the recommendation is for a 10×20 foot shed.”
The shed will be set up at the Sheriff’s Department.
Dils recommended getting two sheds, one for at the Sheriff’s Department and one to replace the shed currently on the courthouse lawn.
“That one has been band-aided together for the last couple of years, and it’s going to need some additional work, I think, if it’s going to survive another year or so,” he said.
The commissioners approved the purchase of one shed, and requested that options for savings be looked at before approving the purchase of two.
“I’m thinking about permission to buy one, and find out if there’s an advantage to buy two. If not, then we’ll wait,” Chairman Scott Givens said while they discussed the matter.
If there are options for a discount, the commissioners will reconvene and discuss them.
Other news from the commissioners’ meeting included the week’s jail report from Sheriff Bob Land.
“As of this morning, I have 86 in our facility. We’re holding 56 in Miami County, eight in Elkhart County and eight in Wells County, for a total of 158,” Land said.
He noted that the peak population of the Wabash County Jail last week was 105, that there were 27 new book-ins and that 68 inmates are being held pending court action.