FRANCONIA — Souderton Area School District’s technology operation center has never been knocked out by things like tornadoes, water damage or fire, but there’s always the possibility.
Plans for a new Disaster Recovery Center were outlined at the Souderton Area School Board’s Oct. 13 Technology Committee meeting.
If the operation center went down for some reason, “the other site would then be able to pick up and quickly maintain continuity of services,” said Director of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Katie Kennedy-Reilly.
“The benefits of having a Disaster Recovery Center will be, of course, to keep our services up and running,” she said, “and then also that there is no data loss because everything that is in one data center is in the other data center at the same time.”
The cost for the Data Recovery Center would be $385,000, Kennedy-Reilly said.
The hardware could be received by December, she said.
“It can be up and running by early 2022,” Kennedy-Reilly said.
Two options to pay for the center would be to use federal Covid-related stimulus funding or money in the district budget allocated for potential capital projects, Director of Business Affairs Brian Pawling said.
“It’s a good use for those kinds of money because it is a one-time project,” he said.
Technology grants may add a third option, board member Donna Scheuren said.
The Souderton Area School Board is expected to vote on the Disaster Recovery Center proposal at the board’s Oct. 28 meeting.
In another matter at the Oct. 13 meeting, Superintendent Frank Gallagher announced that Pawling is leaving the district to become Radnor Township School District’s business administrator.
Pawling helped the district get through both the 2019 ransomware against it, followed by the Covid-19 pandemic, Gallagher said.
“You did it with the care and compassion for not just the children, but the employees and taxpayers. You’ve been a tremendous asset to this organization and we will miss you,” Gallagher said.
“You exemplify professionalism. You’re good at your craft,” board President Ken Keith said.
“It’s never easy balancing the budget in the best of years,” Keith said, “but when you have things like Covid and global pandemic, getting a budget is near impossible, but you managed to make it really a very good outcome for us, so as a taxpayer, a parent, as a board member, and a ember of this community I thank you sincerely for everything you contributed.”
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