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155`' Regular Council Meeting May 14, 2012 Page 3 City of Paris did not provide sewer services to her home and provided minimum road repair. She said if she went through the City of Paris to hook up to the water and sewer system, it would cost her double. Council Members Frierson and McCarthy expressed concern about the change in city boundaries. A Motion to direct City Staff to move forward with procedures for disannexation of Ms. Palmer's property was made by Council Member Pickle and seconded by Council Member Wright. Motion carried, 5 ayes — 1 nay, with Council Member McCarthy casting the dissenting vote. City Attorney Kent McIlyar said that two public hearings would have to be published in the newspaper, and that two readings of the ordinance were required prior to adoption. Mr. McIlyar told Ms. Palmer that City Staff would contact her in order to help her with the public notices. 10. Deliberate and act on purchase of a new telephone system for the City of Paris. IT Director Kent Klinkerman explained that the current telephone system had been in a state of continual repair for the last several years and was last updated in 2005. Mr. Klinkerman said all support had been lost with the last two companies over the last several years ago, because those businesses had gone out of business. After research and presentation of several systems, he said IT was recommending the purchase of a Cisco UCMBE 6000 and the quoted price was $86,000. Mr. Klinkerman said he brought this item forward, because of Council's earlier direction that any capital expenditure over $15,000 be brought to Council for approval. Mr. Klinkerman answered questions from City. Council. A Motion to approve the purchase of a new telephone system was made by Council Member McCarthy and seconded by Council Member Frierson. Motion carried, 7 ayes — 0 nays. 11. Deliberate and provide direction to City Staff on permitting software to be used in the Engineering, Planning and Development Department. Shawn Napier said that staff had investigated eight different software programs over the past few months for the purpose of selecting a program that would make the City's permitting process user friendly. Mr. Napier told Council that staff was recommending the mygov software, because it met all ten criteria points. Shawn Napier and Kent Klinkerman answered questions from Council about different modules. Mayor Hashmi questioned the current on -line citizen complaint system, in that Gov QA reflected that there was a report of a dilapidated structure and twenty minutes later the complaint was closed. Mayor Hashmi inquired how that type of complaint could be closed out so quickly. Mr. Anderson said he would find out and report back to Council. Council Member Pickle said if the contractors did not use the system it would not pay for itself. It was a consensus of the City Council to proceed with the purchase of the new mygov software.