HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2017.09.06 - 23089mmissioner Thomas Middleton, District #4
Chairperson, Finance Committee
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #17248 September 6, 2017
BY: Commissioner Thomas Middleton, Chairperson, Finance Committee
IN RE: DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — WINDSTREAM CONTRACT #003621
EXTENSION THROUGH 2019
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the current contract between Oakland County and Windstream (vendor), will reach its five
year life; expiring on September 30, 2017; and
WHEREAS Windstream is the sole provider of Oakland County's local telephone services, circuits and
backup toll free services; and
WHEREAS pending the implementation of the Universal Communications and Collaboration Program
(UCC) which will change technology over the course of the next year; and
WHEREAS it would not be cost effective to bid and incur potential switch over costs for something that is
being phased out; and
WHEREAS Windstream has agreed to a two-year extension on the County's current contract while we
migrate to the new technology, long term solution; and
WHEREAS the Purchasing Terms and Conditions state in Section 2400.6 Duration of Contracts and
under Procedure states The Board of Commissioners shall approve contracts beyond five years".
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners approves the
extension of the existing contract with Windstream for two (2) years through September 30, 2019.
Chairperson, on behalf of the Finance Committee, I move adoption of the foregoing resolution.
FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #17248 September 6,2017
Moved by KowaII supported by Bowman the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda be adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
AYES: Crawford, Dwyer, Fleming, Gershenson, Jackson, Kochenderfer, KowaII, Long,
McGillivray, Middleton, Quarles, Spisz, Taub, Tietz, Weipert, Woodward, Zack, Berman,
Bowman. (19)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions (with fiscal notes attached) on the Consent
Agenda were adopted (with accompanying reports being accepted).
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I HEREBY
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CHIEF DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ACTING PURSUANT TO IViCt. 45.5591 (7)
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on September 6,
2017, with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County of Oakland at
Pontiac, Michigan this 6th day of September, 2017.
Lisa Brown, Oakland County