Board directs county staff to end 'Silver' managed‑services IT contract

The Mitchell County Board of Supervisors voted to discontinue a vendor’s Silver managed‑services agreement covering backups and network monitoring and authorized staff to send notice to terminate that portion of the contract.

An IT representative (Speaker 6) told the board the managed services cover backups, firewall/switch monitoring and server management and are distinct from the vendor’s application software. "Most of the stuff they do is stuff that is very rarely needed and that we can easily do ourselves now," Speaker 6 said.

Board members asked about contractual notice requirements and about an Exhibit A that references the recorder. Speaker 1 said county staff would provide a documented notice (email was considered sufficient by staff) and that recorder‑related items in Exhibit A would be handled separately. The motion to formally discontinue the Silver package and have staff send termination documentation carried by voice vote.

The board did not cancel any contracts for the vendor’s core application software; the action covered only the managed‑services portion described to the board.