IT Director Eric Wyatt reports many core Borough IT services have been restored and most essential services will be restored by the end of September. Many of these services will still require some additional configuration to be 100%. But enough of the services are being restored to a point where the Borough staff can effectively and efficiently serve the public.
We have taken time and precaution to ensure that as these services are restored safely. This kind of attack will continue to plague all organizations. In fact, more sophisticated attacks have been released since the beginning of this event, so security is a high priority for the Borough IT staff.
Essential services that are, or will be, restored by September 30th include: Phones, email, elections, credit card use at Solid Waste, Pools, and Ice Rink, Library Internet access, Borough web site, records requests, solid waste scale house, animal care, map services such as “find my school,” flood maps, wet lands viewer, and more.
Our ecommerce system should be back on line by the end of the month or shortly thereafter, which means we can get back to registering for swimming lessons online.
Internally we have our primary financial system and our parcel/property system back online. Our parcel viewer mapping system may still be on the temporary solution, but the full solution will be up soon. The myProperty data system still has 3-month old data and will also be back to near real-time data within a few weeks. Below is the most current status and summary of impacted services.
Dept/Div | Service | Status | Summary |
Animal Care |
Animal Care Code Enforcement
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Available |
Enforcement is available to the public and our dispatcher's phones have been restored. Enforcement is hindered and limited with no access to previous cases. Please note that all cases and complaints created prior to the 2018 cyber security incident are not available to our staff. If you have a question as to the status of your case or complaint, please contact our dispatch at 761-7501.
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Animal Care |
Animal Shelter/ Adoption
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Available |
Animal Care & Regulation has all services open to the public. Adoptions, licensing, return to owners, vet care, and shelter care are all available but continue to be slower with loss of software data. We are able to accept cash, check or credit card payments.
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Capital Projects |
Pre-Design & Engineering
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Partial Service |
Projects continue at a slow pace. Limited data access is greatly hindering the review process. Reference files remain unavailable causing significant negative impacts.
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Capital Projects |
Project Management
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Partial Service |
Projects continue at a slow pace. Limited data access is greatly hindering the review process. Reference files remain unavailable causing significant negative impacts.
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Clerk | Elections | Available |
For questions regarding the Borough's Election, please contact the Borough Clerks Office at 907-861-8683.
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Clerk | Other Services | Partial Service |
Assembly packets are available through Granicus. We don't have video streaming up and going yet, and don't expect that until the Assembly's meeting in October. We are able to prepare a Vacancy Report.
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Emergency Services |
Emergency Medical Services
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Available | 100% Available |
Emergency Services | Fire Services | Available | 100% Available |
Finance | Accounting | Partial Service |
The financial system is back up. We are in process of dealing with backlog of entry data so that we can produce up-to-date reports for the various users.
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Finance |
Property Tax / Assessments
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Partial Service |
Tax Data can be view in Govern and we are working to import payments processed into system. Limited access by users and lack of reports are slowing processes down.
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Updated 9/20/2018 by Erin Leaders, PIO