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ITEM: |
CONSENT
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CONSIDER EXPENDITURE TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH TYLER TECHNOLOGIES
FOR PURCHASE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INCODE UTILITY BILLING SOFTWARE |
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Meeting
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February 17, 2016 |
Budgeted: |
N/A |
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From: |
David J.
Stoldt, |
Program/ |
Reimbursement |
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General
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Prepared
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Suresh
Prasad |
Cost Estimate: |
$15,000 (Reimbursed) |
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General Counsel Review: Yes |
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Committee Recommendation: The Administrative Committee reviewed this item on February 10, 2016 and recommended approval. |
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CEQA Compliance: N/A |
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SUMMARY: The District has been utilizing customized software to bill for water usage to the Reclamation Project customers. In its current form, the software does not meet the needs of the District. Basic functionalities such as recording partial payment, inability to bill customers with outstanding balance, and basic reports are not available. The lack of integration between the billing software and District’s current financial software creates a burden for the staff as the data entries must be manually posted into the financial software creating redundant data entries. All of these routine transactions take an inordinate amount of time due to the inadequacies of the existing billing software.
In recognition of the fact that the current billing
software is not suitable for the District's needs, staff included $15,000 in
the Reclamation Project Budget for fiscal year 2015-2016 to fund the purchase of
new utility billing software. Staff
recommends Tyler Technologies utility billing software as this will integrate
with the District’s existing financial software and will help keep the costs down
as the utility billing software will use the same resources as the financial
software. This purchase will be reimbursed
to the District by the Reclamation Project.
RECOMMENDATION: District
staff recommends authorizing the General Manager to enter into an agreement
with Tyler Technologies to provide Utility Billing software (Incode v.X) and implementation services
for an amount not to exceed $15,000.
BACKGROUND: The
District has been using customized software to bill for Reclamation Project
water use. In its current form, several
deficiencies have been identified that needs to be addressed. These shortcomings cannot be addressed by
upgrading the current customized software.
Some of the inadequacies are as follows:
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Inability
to integrate with existing financial software.
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Inability
to post partial receipts to a customer accounts.
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Inability
to post adjustments to customer accounts.
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Inability
to generate new billings while customer has outstanding balance on their
accounts.
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Redundant
data entries are required by staff by posting same data in the billing software
and duplicating the effort by posting the data into the financial software.
Staff recommends Tyler Technology Incode software for the following reasons:
· Utility Billing module will integrate with District’s existing financial software.
· Keeping costs low as the utility billing software uses the same database structure as the District’s existing financial software.
· Reduced software maintenance.
· Reduced staff training due to familiarity of the software.
6-A Tyler Technologies Proposal
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