The City of New Westminster is replacing technology that is quickly becoming obsolete.
Gary Holowatiuk, the city’s director of finance and information technology, told The Record the capital budget included $480,000 for replacement of personal computers and laptops.
On Nov. 4, council approved an additional $100,000 as the earlier budget didn’t account for additional computers that will be needed for the Anvil Centre and the Queensborough Community Centre expansion.
A staff report said the money will allow the city to buy up to 60 new tablets to replace the 60 laptops that are six years old and at the end of their useful lifecycle.
“The current laptop computers must be replaced fairly soon due to hardware obsolescence and out-of-support issues,” stated the report. “The new tablets with the newer version of Microsoft operating systems will meet the city’s mobile business technology needs until 2018.”
