As the Franklin County Commission talks about where they can use the remaining COVID Relief Money the most efficiently, several different areas have come up: The decade old phone system in the county, the camera systems, software updates and others. County Director of Information Technology, Dustin Cureton, spoke about each one, including the aging firewall systems:
He estimated the cost of the three firewalls at about $30,000.00. Talks of upgrading the countywide software at this time worried County Administrator Derek Brown, as he thinks further upgrades would be needed as we come out of the Covid pandemic,
