City buys new software for departments
Summary
The Columbus Board of Public Works and Safety approved an agreement with a government software provider that city officials say will help improve efficiency across two departments. The board on Tuesday approved the agreement with OpenGov totaling $174,877 for three years of access to their software, which can be used for budgeting, permitting and licensing, procurement and various other municipal tasks. Melissa Begley, assistant planning director, estimated it may take about six months to get all of their processes integrated into the OpenGov system. As of now, planning keep track of things by updating an Excel spreadsheet and logging information into Microsoft Access, per Begley. Begley also mentioned that OpenGov will help with sharing larger file sizes— planning and other departments have had issues doing so through the city’s Dropbox, she said.