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<br />2018 Annual Report • Administration • St. Anthony Village, Minnesota <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />49 <br /> <br />VII. Technology <br />Metro I-Net <br />Through an intergovernmental shared services agreement with the City of <br />Roseville, the City of St. Anthony is a contributing partner of a much larger <br />information technology consortium collectively referred to as Metro-INET. The <br />Metro-INET network collaborative includes 44 government entities located in the northeast <br />Twin Cities metropolitan area and collectively is one of the largest municipal networks in the <br />state. The Roseville IT Division, with a staff of 19 full-time staff, supports the daily technology <br />needs of about 1,300 full-time employees, with another 400 part-time, temporary, seasonal and <br />elected officials that require city email and data access. As part of this consortium, St. Anthony <br />realizes a number of cost efficiencies through economies of scale and benefits from advanced <br />technologies that might otherwise be unaffordable outside this cost sharing program. <br />Additionally the City benefits from a larger pool of IT employees that can provide continuous <br />support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. <br /> <br />Computer Replacements <br />Microsoft announced recently that support for the Windows 7 operating <br />system will end on January 14, 2020. This means that Microsoft will no <br />longer offer security enhancement for vulnerabilities discovered after that <br />date. As a result, all computers have to be upgraded or replaced before that <br />date. Given the time it would take to upgrade the operating system software <br />and reinstall other needed software, replacing the computers is a more <br />economical approach. Also, virtually all of the city computers will have <br />reached the end of their expected 5-year life cycle by the end of 2019. <br />With the help of Roseville IT, staff replacements of computers continued in <br />2018. All the computers in the Police Department have been replaced. <br />Computers in the in the Public Works Department and the Liquor <br />Operations are scheduled for early 2019 replacements. <br />