Page 12 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – Friday, February 7, 2020 Saugus gets $57,000 IT grant to improve record-keeping T he Town of Saugus has received a $57,000 Community Compact IT grant which it will use to create a GIS-based “geoindex” for document imaging. Saugus was among 51 municipalities receiving a total of $3 million in Community Compact Information Technology ASKS | from page 11 ly to be fruitful. Q: You mentioned you wish you would have spent more time on certain parts of the trip. Do you plan on a return trip? What do you plan for an encore? A: Certainly not immediately, but I wouldn’t turn down a future trip to Antarctica. Besides seeing more of Antarctica itself, I’d like to spend more time in both Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. Various AntarctiConf speakers have been tossing around ideas for unusual places to hold future tech conferences. Nothing is concrete yet, and even once such a thing were settled upon it’s important to note that it can take over a year to successfully organize such an event. The logistics are a bit more complicated than they are for a more traditional sort of conference. I’m still amazed that Heather Wilde and Matthew Renze were able to pull this off so successfully; countless things could have gone wrong, but instead everything worked out extremely well. The result was a memorable one-of-a-kind conference that sported a de(IT) grants to help strengthen their own technological infrastructure. This latest round of funding brings the total amount of municipal IT grants awarded over the past five years to $12 million – a significant investment that is supporting over 300 municipal and school district projects delightful mix of presentations. The presentations were all recorded and will all be made freely available online, too, so you don’t need to take my word for it. signed to modernize and improve technology systems. “This $3 million in new funding for these communities highlights our commitment to improving technological infrastructure and enabling local cities and towns to deliver high quality services,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “We are pleased Q: Anything else that you would like to share? A: For the first few days back, when I first woke up, I could feel the movement of the ship. When we were beto continue working closely with our municipal partners while making key investments that modernize technology services across Massachusetts.” “The 51 municipalities receiving funding…will be empowered to undertake critical projects such as improving recordkeeping systems, enhancing ing hit by the big waves, there were multiple challenges – going up and down the stairs when your weight would change. We were going from complete weightlessness to public safety systems, consolidating billing platforms, implementing new software and integrating systems,” said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. “As the Community Compact Cabinet Chair, I am proud of the success of this program and congratulate each of the award winners.” twice your weight. The ship would push up, then your weight would drop. It made walking a challenge. The effects of going through the weight change was strange. THREE GENERATIONS OF SAUGONIANS: Left to right rear, George Brown, his son Eric and granddaughters, left to right front, Rhianon and Ariana, at the town’s 2018 Founders Day. Eric and his two daughters returned recently from an Antarctica trip. (Saugus Advocate file photo by Mark E. Vogler) LAW VIOLATION | from page 10 Everett's Newest Real Estate Office Commercial Sales and Leasing Residential Home Sales Real Estate Consulting Apartment Rentals Real Estate Auctions Business Brokerage Personal Property Appraisals Mass Licensed Auctioneer to restore and create new educational programs and to continue impact bargaining over separation and termination on June 30, 2019 based upon our discussion today. Motion seconded by Ms. Meredith Roll Call vote (by Dr DeRuo560 Broadway, Everett, MA 02149 | 617-512-5712 | sam@broadwayRE.com ADRIANA RESNICK DOMENICA RIGGIO SAM RESNICK si) Mrs. Gaieski yes Ms. Morgante yes Ms. Marchese yes Mr. Magliozzi yes Mrs. Meredith yes Ms. Morgante asked that we not announce this until the kids are out of school, with fear of reprisal on her children. Ms. Marchese agreed and Mark Magliozzi voiced his concerns how this would impact his children as well. After discussing this, we all agreed it would be in the best interest of their children to wait until school was out to announce the final vote to privatize. Ms Marchese asked if we would have to vote this in open session, and Ms Meredith stated the Attorney advised us to vote in executive first and in open session after the completion of Impact bargaining. Committee unanimously voted Dr. DeRuosi’s recommendation to outsource the custodians. Committee agreed to table Dr. DeRuosi’s contract to a later date as everyone had to go to work. Ms. Meredith seconded Roll Call: Ms. Gaieski yes Mr. Magliozzi yes Ms. Marchese yes Ms. Morgante yes Ms. Meredith yes Meeting was adjourned 9:30 AM
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