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Regular Council Meeting June 26, 2023 Page 6 asked if there would be any problem with the City taking ownership. Ms. Harris said there would not be a problem, because the City had a judgment lien on this property. Mr. Path said since tax dollars were being spent on this project, that the City should take possession of this property. Council Member Pilgrim said he too thought they should move forward with this project. It was a consensus of the City Council to move forward with bidding the Belford Building Demolition Project. 20. Discuss and possibly act on a request to proceed with financial software upgrade for the City. Finance Director Gene Anderson described the two major problems that the City had with the current software and hardware arrangement. He said the current server was aged, failing and could not continue to function in the longer term. He also said the Open Gov., Inc. was phasing out all of the STW, Inc.'s server based software and replacing it with cloud based software. Mr. Anderson said the primary concern was should the City's local server fail, the City would cease to operate. He referenced the recent incident in the City of Dallas. Mr. Anderson said the implementation cost of the software would cost $174,150.00 and he believed there would be surplus at the end of the year, and that they could come back and amend the budget. He also said the software package annual lease would cost $80,125.00. Council Member Pilgrim wanted to know if there would be any protection for the City should it found itself in a hack situation. Chris Barber with OpenGov said the City would go into the disaster recovery process and all liability would shift to OpenGov. Mr. Anderson said the City would also have protection through TML. Council Member Savage asked about the last time the City had a software update. Mr. Anderson said operation software gets updated but the problem was with the server and it had not been updated since the 80s. Council Member Pilgrim said they had to do this. A Motion to approve this item was made by Council Member Pilgrim and seconded by Council Member Savage. Motion carried, 6 ayes — 0 nays. 21. Discuss and act on RESOLUTION NO. 2023-030: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, APPOINTING TWO REGULAR MEMBERS AND TWO ALTERNATE MEMBERS TO FILL EXPIRED TERMS ON THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 16 OF THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE AND THE CITY'S POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR STANDING BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COMMITTEES; MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Mayor Hughes said this board was a little different from the other boards and commissions, because the appointments had to be made by a resolution, so they would make these appointments first.