TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Mickey Baker, Information Technology
THROUGH: Neal de Jesus, Interim City Manager
DATE: May 7, 2019
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THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH PALM BEACH COUNTY FOR FIBER TRANSPORTATION
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Motion to Approve the modification to the Interlocal Agreement (Agreement) between the City of Delray Beach (City) and Palm Beach County which allows Palm Beach County to provide, and the City of Delray Beach to use, leased Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and transport fiber between the City and the Disaster Recovery site at the Northwest Regional Data Center in Tallahassee, Florida. Item #3, Exhibit A, Section N of this agreement terminates the previous 5Gb data connection with the GoRACK Data Center in Jacksonville, Florida and increases the internet connection at City Hall from 50Mb to 1Gb.
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Background:
The City of Delray Beach (City) entered into an Interlocal Agreement with Palm Beach County Board of Commissioners for network services, antenna placement and wireless services in 2013. In December 2014, the First Amendment updated language to current contract standards, added placement heights of antennas on the City's communication tower and replaced equipment and current antenna specifications to improve network services.
A Second Amendment was added to the Agreement in May of 2016 to add network services to 40 City locations and add a new 5GB data transport circuit to the GoRack data center in Jacksonville.
In February 2018, the Delray Beach City Commission approved a third amendment to the Interlocal Agreement to terminate the disaster recovery site in Jacksonville and add a 1GB data transport circuit to the Northwest Regional Data Center in Tallahassee at a savings of $3,198 per month. The internet bandwidth for the City was also increased from 50MB to 1GB at an additional cost of $840 per month. Although this amendment to the agreement was approved by the Delray Be...
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