The Homewood Village Board approved a contract with Urban Communications to update its 14-year-old network firewall that will improve the communications systems at village hall, the fire and police departments, public works, the Brian Carey Training Center, and lawn and maintenance crews.
The contract for $50,534 also includes three years of licensing and support.
For the past five years, Homewood has been using a cloud-based software for most processes. This can be problematic since it…


