County Board gives the City of Decorah until October 6th to get its data off the former shared county-city server

County Attorney Andy Van Der Maaten has been instructed to send a letter to the City of Decorah, telling the city that the county expects the city to remove its data from the county's servers by October 6th.

The letter is the latest development in a long process that started in April when the city notified the county that it was considering hiring its own IT staff.  Here are past decorahnews.com stories about the process:

April: Winneshiek County asks City of Decorah for $45,967 for computer equipment costs http://www.decorahnews.com/archived-stories/2017/04/16342.html
City council refers IT issues to Personnel Committee http://www.decorahnews.com/archived-stories/2017/04/16344.html

May: City council moves toward having a separate city IT department http://www.decorahnews.com/archived-stories/2017/05/16474.html
City will give notice to county of canceling IT staff sharing  http://www.decorahnews.com/archived-stories/2017/05/16599.html

June: Winneshiek County will inventory all the city/county IT equipment http://www.decorahnews.com/archived-stories/2017/06/16807.html

July: City hires its own IT Director http://www.decorahnews.com/archived-stories/2017/07/17041.html
County says it is working on an agreement to share computer equipment with city http://www.decorahnews.com/archived-stories/2017/07/17160.html

September: It appears the city and county are heading toward having totally separate IT departments

September 18th: Decorah City Council is scheduled to discuss the letter from Winneshiek County