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CITY OF COLTON AGENDA REPORT For Council Meeting of January_ 19 , 1 g 9 3 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council FROM: JACK.. H. STRATTON, CHIEF OF POLICE (::r SUBJECT: Date: AWARD OF CONTRACT TO JAGUAR/MICROAGE FOR 1-13-93 OFFICE AUTOMATION LOCAL AREA NETWORK BACKGROUND The City of Colton Police Department presently utilizes numerous stand-alone personal computers throughout the department, using a variety of application software. The City is standardizing its software and upgrading the capabilities of all existing personal computers to meet present and future demands in office management. DISCUSSION The police department adopted the use of word processing technology in its office management many years ago by changing to the use of personal computers in an office environment. Since that initial change over, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. In attempts to stay abreast of these changes, our office automation has become very piecemeal, inefficient, and lacks integration. These problems were recognized by the police department, as well as by the City, therefore an Ad Hoc committee was formed to further identify existing problems and alternative solutions. Kerry Consulting Group was retained to provide professional guidance. It was determined that a local area network is needed to interconnect existing personal computer work stations and to provide for additional work stations for the purpose of running a variety of applications in office automation software. The need for city-wide uniformity was paramount in any recommendation by the committee in the implementation in both hardware and software to provide for consistency throughout the City. The purposed local area network system meets the standardization mandate. The local area network systems provides for the uniformity of resourcesandthe ability to share those resources. Attachments: Page 1,of _— Item No. -J