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Green objects requiring reimbursement of software purchase

OBSERVER Photo by Gregory Bacon Norman P. Green, Democratic candidate for county executive, objected to the county making Jamestown pay for software upgrades to Jamestown’s public safety system.

MAYVILLE — The Chautauqua County Legislature has agreed to purchase public safety software on behalf of the city of Jamestown and later bill the city for the costs.

During last week’s meeting of the legislature, county lawmakers approved the $111,581 Memorandum of Understanding with the city. According to the resolution, “the city of Jamestown is seeking to utilize the Fire Records Module of Tyler Public Safety software and would like to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding governing purchase of said software.”

The agreement states the county will buy it and Jamestown will reimburse the county within 60 days.

Before the vote, Norm Green, who is running for county executive on the Democratic line, called on the county to pay for the costs, instead of billing the city of Jamestown.

“It’s a great thing that we’re going to do some sharing of services; it’s fantastic. But charging the city of Jamestown $111,00 just doesn’t make sense. This is absolutely what we should be all about — sharing of services,” he said during the public portion of the meeting.

Green noted that 20% of the county population resides in Jamestown and the county regularly shares services, like helping fund the dredging the Barcelona harbor, which was also approved during the meeting. “We help out all the time, the county does. I would ask that this legislature consider at least amending the resolution to help with this $111,000 charge which has to do with software that will be tracking our fire calls. It’s important software that will help up to 10 other organizations that can be involved in this. It’s something that all the Jamestown city legislators should be behind, not charging the city of Jamestown this $111,000,” he said.

Before the vote took place, Legislator Chuck Nazzaro, D-Jamestown, defended the county not paying for the software. “This resolution is helping the city of Jamestown. Currently the county of Chautauqua subscribes in the Tyler Public Safety software program. … It’s for their benefit. They would not be able to do that if we did not already subscribe to the software program,” he said.

The legislature unanimously agreed to the Memorandum of Understanding to be reimbursed.

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