SIRE is the software agenda management program the city council uses to manage it’s meetings documents and videos. Some of us from the public have long argued it hasn’t worked properly, in fact in this presentation they will make today at the informational (DOC: SIRE-ONBASE) they admit that it really hasn’t been upgraded in 5 years and really didn’t work that well before that. In fact the last person who tried to get it working properly was terminated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK_2kHME8j8
We kept asking the same question? Why? As you see from the figures, it really doesn’t cost that much more to upgrade the software. So why was there a delay? And why now with a new mayor and council they are finally upgrading the system?
See, that’s the stickler here. While the city council has supposed control of their staff, and I know for a fact several past and present councilors have asked the software gets upgraded, somehow the council got trumped by the mayor’s central services department.
While some would say that our council wasn’t held hostage the past 8 years by a power hungry mayor, I beg to differ. His uncontrollable desire to control information is why the IT department virtually ignored the problems with SIRE.
Hopefully the council and new mayor won’t just stop at upgrading SIRE but fixing the entire website. Let’s move ‘Fast & Furious’ on this on to!