New! WMUA 91.1 Focus 03/04/2007 (MP3 - 67MB)

Hosted by: Rob Kusner | Guests: Kristopher Pacunas, Brian Levine, Mark Corner

Discussing: Community wireless initiatives, goals and visions

New! WMUA 91.1 Focus 02/04/2007 (MP3 - 44MB)

Hosted by: Rob Kusner | Guests: John Olver, Carol Gray, Molly Turner, Harry Brooks

Discussing: Transportation initiatives, priorities and goals

Continuing Objectives:

- To support, maintain and improve all aspects of the Town’s technology infrastructure.

- To monitor, maintain, and audit network security systems ensuring the information privacy of citizens and staff.

- To coordinate information technology activities within Town departments and between external agencies.

- To seek creative and external funding mechanisms for technology projects and initiatives.

- To consolidate and standardize technology systems wherever possible to reduce total cost of ownership.

- To maintain offsite backups of the Town’s technology systems and databases capable of restoring all systems in the event of disaster.

- To maintain and update comprehensive archival systems in compliance with Federal, State and Local law. To maintain the Town’s software and database systems through timely updates and effective maintenance.

- To provide daily operational technical support all departments, boards and committees, and to provide emergency 24/7 support to Police, Fire, EMS, Public Works and the Communications center.

- To train and provide project specific technical assistance to town departments.

- To maintain, improve and expand all aspects of the Town’s websites and public access systems.

- To maintain and improve technology policies and procedures.

Fiscal Year 2008 Objectives:

- To improve public access, telephony and website systems to better meet the needs of disabled persons.

- To continue development and deployment of web-based GIS technologies improving upkeep and access to spatial information.

- To augment Permitting and Code Enforcement technology systems to better streamline and automate departmental operations and transactions.

- To select and implement a document management system protecting vital Town documents and providing staff and citizens online access to the many Town and Library scanned documents and images.

- To replace the content management system powering the Town’s website ensuring security, and further automating how information is published from internal technology systems.

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Budgets:

Fiscal Year 2008 Proposed Budget (PDF - 41KB)

Fiscal Year 2007 Proposed Budget (PDF - 24KB)

Fiscal Year 2006 Proposed Budget (PDF - 20KB)

   (click here for more Fiscal Year 2008 budget information) 

Annual Reports:

Fiscal Year 2006 (PDF - 28KB)

Fiscal Year 2005 (PDF - 22KB)

Fiscal Year 2004 (PDF - 18KB)

  (click here for the annual Town report archive)

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Staff:

    Kristopher Pacunas, Director (pacunask@amherstma.gov)

    David Soucie, Assistant Director (soucied@amherstma.gov)

    Sean Hannon, Network Administrator (hannons@amherstma.gov)

    Maria Racca, Software Analyst (raccam@amherstma.gov)

    Richard Dudkiewicz, Systems Analyst (dudkiewicz@amherstma.gov)

    Michael Olkin, GIS Administrator (olkinm@amherstma.gov) 

  Liaisons:

    William Glover, Public Safety Systems Administrator (gloverb@amherstma.gov)

    Hank Allan, Library Systems Administrator (allanh@amherstma.gov)