BY ADAM ATKINSON

North Country This Week

POTSDAM — The town board has approved the purchase of the WAGsys system from CIVICgov, a cloud-based municipal management software company, in the amount of $5,750 for implementation.

The system, proposed by Town Code Enforcer Jeff Murray to the town board, is more user friendly and efficient than the town’s current iWorks system. Murray told the board at their meeting June 8 that the iWorks program the codes office currently uses doesn’t contain all of the ICC codes for building permits, records and other forms that his office currently uses, requiring a great deal of inputting of codes into the system from among the possible thousands of codes available.

The WAGsys system, which is much more efficient, automatically inputs all of the relevant codes from the on town code enforcement forms which could save the office a great deal of time, Murray said.

Murray said the town will save about $5,000 in the first 5 years of using WAGsys, and about $15,000 over the course of 15 years.

The town will also pay a yearly subscription in the amount of $1,450, which will be pro-rated upon implementation. The board approved the agreement with CIVICgov at its meeting Tuesday, June 8.

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