City of Decorah will officially cancel its IT sharing agreement with Winneshiek county by the end of the week

Decorah City Administrator Chad Bird, County Board Chair John Logsdon and County Auditor Ben Steines met Tuesday morning to discuss the city/county IT Department.

Steines says Bird announced the city by the end of this week would give official notice to Winneshiek County that the city will end its current 28e agreement with the county for sharing IT staff.  The notice will mean the city will have its own IT employee as of July 1st.

IT Director Steve Smith gave assurances to the county board Monday that "we can separate things that need to be separated."  Supervisor Dean Thompson said some services, like disaster recovery programs, need to be accessible to both governments.  Others can be separated--so long as it's specific which pieces of equipment belong to which government, which personnel have access to each piece of equipment and who is responsible for fixing or replacing equipment when it breaks.

Smith will be meeting with County Attorney Andy Van Der Maaten to add specifics to a 28e document being drawn up that would set forth the terms of a city/county agreement to share equipment.--if that's the course the county wants to continue.