Rayne Parish Council

10 March 2008.

The parish council have recently upgraded the computer systems in the CIP.

A new desktop PC has been purchased for use in the Parish office by the clerk.This system is a major improvement over the old machine which was getting quite old, and unable to run some of the newer software as well as getting increasingly slow.

A laptop has been purchased for the clerk to use at meetings. She now has on hand documents and files that would previously only be stored on the computer in the Parish office.The laptop also enables her to type minutes and notes during meetings saving the need to type them up from written notes afterwards and this was first put to good use during the public meeting with the developers re the foundry.Also, she can now access council email from home rather than twice weekly during office hours. This laptop is also available for use by any councillor for meetings and presentations if required.

A third machine has been purchased to upgrade the village computer in the CIP.As well as a faster machine there is now a flat screen monitor which is a vast improvement over the old one.A webcam has also been obtained for use with Skype and MSN. The village computer is available for use, by appointment , to any villager free of charge.

The old village computer system is still available for use with the Computer Steering Group for training courses that are run for villagers from time-to-time and the old computer used by the clerk has been donated to the Village Hall Committee for use with their CCTV system.