Annual Report 2007-2008(color).pub - Town of South Windsor

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Finance Department Melanie D. Crucitti Director of Finance The Finance Department, which strives to provide quality service, works closely with all Town departments in order to fulfill its responsibilities. Its primary responsibility is the recording and reporting of all financial activity in accordance with state statutes. The Finance Department, also, administers the Town’s payroll, which includes approximately 175 permanent and 250 seasonal employees. Some of the department’s additional functions include completing all internal and external financial reports, processing accounts payable, reconciling all bank accounts, preparing the annual budget, and assisting the Town Manager’s Office as necessary. For the Fiscal Year 2007/2008, 3,022 purchase orders were processed, 16 bank accounts were reconciled each month, and approximately 8,500 checks were issued by the Finance Department. Housing Authority Joan Murphy Chairperson The Housing Authority of the Town of South Windsor (HASW) administers 70 single-bedroom apartments for the Elderly or Disabled. Persons eligible of Elderly Housing are individuals who have attained the age of sixty-two years or over. Also, Disabled Persons who have not attained the age of sixty-two years or older may apply by furnishing the required documentation verifying their Social Security Disability status. Income limits at this time are $39,550/single and $45,200/couple. The HASW is not a town agency but rather a corporation (“public body corporate and politic”) reporting to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA). The HASW does not expend any South Windsor tax dollars to operate and maintain its facilities. All maintenance is performed by Authority Staff or contracted out to local companies. Annually the Authority remits a payment to the town of South Windsor. Our PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) is approximately $23,000. South Windsor such as Watson Farm, Berry Patch I & II, and the to-be-built (and named) 88 unit complex off Kelly Road. As the population of Connecticut continues to “age in place”, the need of housing for older persons continues to increase. The Authority desires to keep our present elderly residing in town while offering an opportunity for the elderly living in other communities to move here with us. The Housing Authority still continues to seek sources of funding to construct a Congregate/ Assisted Living facility on the land next to our Flax Hill apartments. Such a facility will allow our present tenants, and other area elderly of low-moderate income, to continue to live in South Windsor should they no longer be capable of independent living. Should you have any questions regarding the Housing Authority, you may contact our office at (860) 644-3082. The HASW continues to be a co-applicant for other elderly apartment developments within 56 | Town of South Windsor: Annual Report 2007/2008
Information Technology Department Scott E. Roberts, GISP Director of Information Technology Technology continues to move forward here in South Windsor. This year, we have assisted several departments in enhancing their services to our citizens. The Human Services Department has implemented a new system to track activities and membership within the Teen Center. We assisted the Public Works Department in implementing a new sign creation system. In addition, we deployed handheld computers to the Building Maintenance Division as part of their new Work Order system. Also by serving on a subcommittee at the Capitol Region Council of Governments we wrote and obtained a grant to receive new aerial mapping covering the entire CRCOG region. This mapping will be added to our GIS and serve as invaluable asset to Town Staff. In addition to assisting town departments, we have been extremely busy with many activities ranging from routine requests for help, computer and network upgrades/ repairs, evaluating new products/services, implementing MUNIS Permits and Code Enforcement and GIS. We have received over 1100 calls from staff for routine assistance this year. These help requests has been stored, managed and reported from a software package shared between our staff and the IT staff at the Board of Education. To provide town staff with better mobile communications we have implemented a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES). This equipment shares the users contact list, calendar and emails between MS Outlook and their phone. This technology has been reported as invaluable by the town staff. A new emerging technology for municipal applications is the use of global positioning system (GPS). The Public Works Department is testing GPS to record and tracking the locations of equipment in use in their programs. The initial program was street sweeping and mowing. The department plans to deploy the technology to the leaf and snow programs. While assisting town staff with routine requests, the Information Technology staff has been extremely busy upgrading the network infrastructure which consists of the servers, switches and the firewall. This has been a huge task as we had to create a new network to encompass both existing networks that are being phased out. This will allow staff to communicate better while improving security and disaster recovery capabilities. As part of this process we are reducing the amount of physical equipment we are running which will save the town money with respect to electrical, heating and cooling costs. The technology that is being implemented is called VMware and DataCore which allows us to have multiple servers running on the same computer hardware. In addition this solution allows the IT staff to dynamically reallocate computer resources as staff demands change without purchasing more hardware and waiting the lengthy delivery time. Also should critical systems fail, we can automatically restart the server on the backup equipment to minimize the downtime for staff. The system is scheduled to be completed and tested in early 2009. Our biggest challenges on this project have been keeping the current systems online while work has progressed. Town of South Windsor: Annual Report 2007/2008 | 57
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