Riley County, Kan., Will Switch Meeting Software in March
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(TNS) — Riley County commissioners on Monday voted to devote more than $20,000 to switching the software used for organizing meeting minutes and documents.The new software the county will switch to in March comes from Civic Plus. The county currently uses MinuteTrag, a product from IQM2/Granicus, but the company decided to discontinue the software after it was bought out.The Civic Plus software comes with live streaming capability as well as the option to post meeting videos to the countys website and Youtube.County information technology director Cory Meyer said Granicus encouraged customers to switch to another product as it begins phasing out MinuteTrag in September. Theres no clear leader as far as total number of customers, but there was one that was showing more progress, more change and also knew what we were using and wanting to move from. "Meyer said he and senior administrative assistant Cindy Kabriel and public information officer Vivienne Leyva reviewed Civic Plus product and decided it would work well for the county. The rest will come from money budgeted to replace MinuteTrag.County IT officials will prepare a training schedule to ease the switch in March.