After a day off, once again not much went as planned. I did however, get to spend a good portion of the day working on the copier compliment. It should only take a few more sessions but I should be able to get a good handle on the leases, maintenance agreements, and the copy overage charges that we keep getting hit with. I have the necessary information on the Xerox units and the Canon systems are next. I have some time set aside for a short meeting with the Canon Business Solutions rep on Thursday. I am now aware that there are two separate entities that we have been dealing with on the Canon copier systems. Canon Financial Services handles both the leases and maintenance on about half of the units that we have in operation and Canon Business Solutions handles the rest. My goal through this entire exercise is to add to the copier totals throughout the district, cut down on the excess copier costs and not spend a dime more than we are spending at present. I have the need for small copiers in about six locations throughout the district. I did get some preliminary information on some of the smaller units from Canon but those numbers did not fit into my budget constraints. I need to get this accomplished and soon. I was able to partially solve the location problems in three of the four smaller schools but there is one school that the unit is not accomplishing what they wanted. I was informed this from other than the primary user of the new combination copier, scanner, printer and until I am notified from the primary I won't address it. While the copiers are not actually high tech they do represent the most focal and vocal group of equipment in the district. Just unplug one for any length of time and see what happens.
I also made some progress with the Art project today and we were able to get the Reeds Road Art room up and running today with full Internet access as well as the Photoshop Elements program up and running. I hope to have the Arthur Rann systems done tommorrow and Roland and Smithville on Friday. I will have them delivered and setup by Tuesday of next week at the latest. The projectors are up and running at Reeds Road and tommorrow if the inspections take place we will have Rann and the rest up within the next few days.
Made some progress with Verizon on our Transparent Lan Services as well today. As I have written in the past, the TLS will optimize the district's communications with regard to the computer system. It also opens up the prospects of having our own GTPS district wide television station up with two years of the installation of the TLS systems. I hope to institute 10Mb on the outer layers and 100 MB between Rann and Smithville all coming back to the tech center.
The plan for tommorrow is to complete the work at the Roland Library and have it ready to be filmed on Friday. Until, next post.
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