Council advances several routine committee items including IT services, tax-collection agreement and emergency-operations plan
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Council heard presentations on renewing a personal services IT contract, a tax-collection agreement with the school district and adoption of a county emergency-operations plan; each item was moved to the next legislative agenda for formal consideration.
Several non-controversial committee items were discussed and forwarded to the next legislative agenda.
Resolution 86 would renew a personal services agreement with Steve Zimmerman, a retired city IT employee who assists with the historical mainframe and migration to Munis. IT Director Steve Ortner said the proposed hourly rate would increase from $100 to $115 and that the total contract cap would remain $120,000. Council asked how long the city would need those services; the IT director said the mainframe migration should be complete in 2026 with residual references through mid-2027.
Resolution 87 is the routine annual collection agreement authorizing the city to collect business privilege, mercantile and amusement taxes for the Harrisburg School District; Tax Administrator Mike Hughes said the current collection rate is 4% and that the arrangement has been in place since 2001 in various forms.
Resolution 92 recommends adopting the Dauphin County 2025 emergency-operations plan as the city's official plan to improve coordination and eligibility for state disaster-relief funding. Senior Deputy Chief Michael Sowder said the plan standardizes terminology and mutual-aid contacts across local, county and state partners.
Council members moved each resolution to the legislative agenda for a formal vote; no ordinance or resolution was finally adopted at the work session.