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Jul 28, 2009 News
Despite a protracted financial challenge, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will by January 1, next year, have a proper Treasury Management System.
This is according to the entity’s System Analyst, Waynewright Orderson, who during an interview with this newspaper, revealed that the municipality within the next three months should have a General Ledger and a revamped tax programme by December.
The India-based Software Company, Polaris, is currently developing software that will incorporate all aspects of the Treasury Department.
The company has been working with much diligence, according to Orderson, although the municipality has not in large measure been able to honour its financial commitment to it.
“Even though we have not fully paid them for the first part of their work, they have still gone ahead and have been working diligently on the second phase of the venture. They have a full appreciation of our problem and they are very co-operative.”
“When they showed me how far they have gone with the development it is unbelievable. They have over 200 persons working on our application and (they are using) tremendous resources even though they have not been paid in full,” Orderson mused.
The municipality, earlier this year, inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the world renowned software company, to fully computerise its operation.
The first phase of the initiative, which ended with the creation of a roadmap, was completed a few months ago. It has received the approval of Minister Kellawan lall, under whose purview the municipality falls, and Prime Minister Samuel Hinds. Even Commissioner of Inquiry, Keith Burrowes, had perused the roadmap and had given supportive comments, Orderson noted.
“He (Burrowes) was more involved in getting a temporary system in place while we were working on a more permanent feature.”
The Polaris team has since returned to India, according to Orderson, and has commenced working on the second component of the project which is the tax collecting aspect.
“They are working as a priority on the development of the general ledger which will contain the chart of accounts. We should be receiving from them a spec outline of what this component will entail,” Orderson disclosed.
In the meantime, he said that the municipality is tasked with the responsibility to put the necessary hardware in place to accommodate the Polaris software infrastructure.
“We are trying to source the servers and the storage devices because it is considerably more hardware capacity than we have right now. So we are trying to source three new servers, two high-end servers and a backup server. And we are also trying to source a storage device that would hold all of the data of the municipality.”
However, the municipality’s effort to acquire the necessary hardware has been undermined by its financial state, Orderson divulged.
The municipality is working on a plan to have backup copies of all of its data stored at an off-site location.
This move, according to the System Analyst, comes in wake of the recent fire which gutted the Ministry of Health Brickdam headquarters which destroyed substantial amounts of the entity’s records.
“We have become very concerned because this building is more fragile than the Ministry’s building. So we are trying to get that done by the end of next week so at least data no more than one or two days old will already be there should there be a disaster,” Orderson disclosed.
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