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MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Matt O'Brien, Director
Council Communication
City Council Meeting: 10/20 ,14
Prepared: 10/13/14
Dept. Head Signature: Matt O'Brien
# of Attachments: 1
SUBJECT: Approval of Agreement with Water Works for Customer Information System Hosting
Submitted by: Matt O'Brien, Director of Technology
Recommended City Council Action: Resolution approving an agreement with the Water Works for
Customer Information System Hosting and authorize Mayor and City Clerk to execute said document.
Summary Statements: Agreement with the Water Works to host their new Customer Information System.
Expenditure Required: N/A
Source of Funds: N/A
Policy Issue: N/A
Alternative: Force the Water Works to buy its own physical servers to host its new Customer Information
System, which would not achieve cost savings achieved by leveraging the City's new virtualization
infrastructure.
Background Information: The City has been in the process of modernizing its server infrastructure through
server virtualization. This technology allows the city to run multiple server instances on a single physical
server. This results in an overall cost savings, as well as better service as the server virtualization structure
offers redundancies to minimize downtime. The Water Works is proceeding with a new Customer Information
System (CIS). This CIS system requires a number of servers. This agreement will allow the Water Works to
utilize the City's virtualization system and have virtual servers. The Water Works will pay the City
$34,589.71, which is 80% of the cost of equivalent physical servers. The City will then create five virtual
servers for the Water Works use. These servers will be available for five years, which is the expected lifespan
of the City's virtualization system. The money the Water Works pays the City as part of this agreement will be
used to expand the City's virtualization system, which will offer the necessary capacity to host the Water
Works, as well as expand its capacity to serve other City departments.
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CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEM HOSTING
AGREEMENT
NOW on this c,?()day of , 2014,
the Waterloo Water Works (the "Water Works") and the City of Waterloo, Iowa (the
"City"), enter into this Agreement for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and
promises contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged.
I. RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Water Works has a need to have servers host its Customer
Information System; and
WHEREAS, the City has the ability to provide the Water Works servers as part of
its server virtualization system,
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
II. TERMS OF AGREEMENT
A. PURPOSE. Refer to Recitals.
B. CITY RESPONSIBILITIES.
1. The City shall provide the Water Works with the following virtual
servers:
a. One (1) database server
b. Four (4) application servers
2. The City shall be responsible for all hardware costs associated with
the virtual servers provided as part of this agreement.
3. The City shall also be responsible for VMWare software and related
maintenance costs associated with the virtual servers provided as
part of this agreement.
4. The City shall conduct backups of the Water Works Customer
Information System database on a nightly basis. Three (3) weeks of
database backups will be stored.
5. Any necessary routine maintenance to the virtual servers will be
conducted outside the Water Work's normal business hours of
Monday thru Friday, 8:00 am — 5:00 pm.
6. The City shall provide designated Water Works staff with full
remote access to the virtual servers through remote desktop
services (RDS) as needed and agreed upon by the City and Water
Works.
C. WATER WORKS RESPONSIBILITIES.
1. The Water Works shall pay the City $34,589.71. This cost is 80% of
the cost of equivalent physical servers, quoted at $43,237.14. This
total amount is due within thirty (30) days of the execution of the
agreement.
2. The Water Works shall be responsible for all necessary Microsoft
software licensing costs for the servers.
3. The Water Works shall ensure a current software assurance (SA)
agreement is kept for Microsoft Sequel Server licenses used on the
virtual servers covered under this agreement.
4. The Water Works shall be responsible for maintenance and support
of the Customer Information System software and any associated
costs.
D. DURATION.
1. The services provided by this Agreement shall be provided for five
(5) years from the Agreement execution date.
2. Because of the investment the City will make to fulfill its obligations
under this agreement, the amount paid by the Water Works shall be
non-refundable.
3. The Water Works shall maintain ownership of the data kept on the
servers provided as part of this agreement and will be provided with
access to retrieve that data at the expiration of the agreement.
E. OPTION FOR ADDITIONAL HOSTING.
1. The Water Works shall have the future option of moving its existing
server over to be hosted as part of the City's virtualization system.
2. Should the Water Works elect this option, they shall pay
$10,246.37, which is 80% of $12,807.96, the quoted cost of a new
physical server. This amount shall be prorated according to the
amount of time left in the agreement at the time this option is
elected.
3. The Water Works must give the City a minimum of 30 days notice
to proceed with this option.
4. The other terms of this agreement remain applicable to this option.
DATED this 2211A
day of
, 2014.
Waterloo Water Works
By:
ATTEST:
Terry M. K 6' tz, Chairman
Board of Truste - s
Waterloo Water Works
Dennis Clark, General Manager and Board Secretary
STATE OF IOWA, BLACK HAWK COUNTY, ss:
On this I day of 061-0 ber. , 2014, before me, the undersigned,
a Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa, personally appeared Terry M. Kuntz and
Dennis Clark, to me personally known, and who, being by me duly sworn, did say that
they are the Board of Trustees Chair and the Board Secretary, respectively, of the
Waterloo Water Works; and that the instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of the
utility by authority of its Board of Trustees as contained in the Resolution adopted by the
Board of Trustees, on the d/54- day of t2cfober , 2014, and that Terry M.
Kuntz and Dennis Clark acknowledged the execution of the instrument to be their
voluntary act and deed and the voluntary act and deed of the utility, by it voluntarily
executed.
Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa
ATTEST:
CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA
Ernest G. Clark, Mayor
City of Waterloo
Suzy Schars
STATE OF IOWA, BLACK HAWK COUNTY, ss:
On this 7 day of "'"''® , 2014, before me, the
undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa, personally appeared Emest
G. Clark and Suzy Schares, to me personally known, and who, being by me duly swom,
did say that they are the Mayor and City Clerk, respectively, of the City of Waterloo,
Iowa; that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of the
corporation, and that the instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of the corporation
by authority of its City Council as contained in the Resolution adopted bthe City
Council, unser Council Action No.-Q?.aof the City Council on the day of
I , 2014, and that Ernest G. Clark and Suzy Schares
acknowledged the execution of the instrument to be their voluntary act and deed and
the voluntary act and deed of the corporation, by it voluntarily executed.
s.
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