The Finance Committee is meeting 11/21/2022 at 5:30PM. The agenda is pretty light and does not appear to have any controversial items on it.
The first action item is a request to award a waste water treatment plant project for $5.8 million.
The second action item is a request to approve a 3-year license renewal with ESRI to provide Geographic Information Systems services. This is a sole source contract. Community and Economic Development Director Karen Harkness submitted a memo to the committee explaining the reasons for the sole source contract. “Moving away from ESRI’s ArcGIS Enterprise system would decimate much of the city processes, applications, and city end users. We can confirm that the ArcGIS software is a sole source product, manufactured, sold, and distributed exclusively by ESRI. This sole source purchase should be likened to Appleton’s account with Microsoft Suite Products. Microsoft Word has been the standard for documentation for many years, just as ESRI’s ArcGIS has pioneered and lead the way in GIS since 1969 when the company was founded.”
Finally, the information items on the agenda consist of updates on two completed maintenance projects.
View full meeting details here: https://cityofappleton.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1008716&GUID=BEE6DCED-3B48-409D-8F48-C532EFB8DF2E
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