Hamden cites West Haven as an example not to follow

The Hamden Journal reports that their legistlative council approved a $77,000 bid waiver for a year's license for Munis, in the article entitled "Town Computer system undergoes an overhaul".

Munis is the same software which West Haven uses to run our town. The recent Audit with Checkers, however, found that we were not using the software to its fullest.

Hamden is determined to not have the same problems West Haven experienced with pushing the Tax collection portion of Munis live:

"[The Assessor's office] is the difficult part," he said. "We have to be ready for problems if they come up. We see the hard time West Haven is having with its tax system because they were trying to convert too quickly, and the timing wasn't right."

As an aside - wow - I had no idea how much the licensing costs for Munis were - for that kind of price, I truly hope we start using it properly.