I have heard from a "reliable source" that the Maricopa County Council has
decided not to automatically sign off on having the county sign an Enterprise
Agreement with Microsoft. The source said that people within the county IT
organizations made their opinion known that the Enterprise Agreement might
not be the best path for the county to blindly follow.
Since no decision has yet been made, I urge you to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
contact your Maricopa County district council person and your city council
people with some simple questions.
a. Ask them if they plan to approve funding for the Enterprise Agreement with
the Microsoft Corporation?
b. If they do plan to do so, ask them to provide you with a copy of the
agreement and the dollar amount to be expended.
c. Ask them when they will be hearing from the public on the budget, so if
they are adopting an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft, you can have your
voice heard publicly.
d. Ask they why do they do business with a vendor that has been convicted of
felony wrongdoings.
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e. Ask them if they have they considered alternatives to Microsoft products.
I dont have city contact information but county contact information is as
follows:
Map To Find Your Council Person
http://www.maricopa.gov/county_glance/maps.asp?link=districtMap
Council Contact Email
Dist 1 Fulton Brock FBrock@mail.maricopa.gov
Dist 2 Don Stapley DStapley@mail.maricopa.gov
Dist 3 Andrew Kunasek AKunasek@mail.maricopa.gov
Dist 4 Max Wilson mwwilson@mail.maricopa.gov
Dist 5 Mary Rose Wilcox MrWilcox@mail.maricopa.gov
Also I would cc: the County Administrator and Deputy County
Administrator
CAO: David Smith DSmith@mail.maricopa.gov
DCA: Sandi Wilson Swilson@mail.maricopa.gov
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Jim
Freedom is worth protecting
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