Open House Citytopushfornewsoftware

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“You won’t get a spot ”

Navdeep Gill also came early in the morning to Bonsor to sign up her daughter

At 10 minutes to 10 a.m., she held out her phone displaying a white screen with black text: Burnaby’s online registration page error message “Having trouble registering?” read the screen

Gill tried registering online for recreation classes on Monday and couldn’t get a spot. So, onWednesday, she took the day off work to come in person

But she wasn’t able to get her daughter registered “There was no slot left,” she said

The target date for the new software had been set for this fall, but now Morrison-Clark said she wants to speed up the timeline.

“The only thing left to do is to go aggressively to bring that date of the software implementation forward so we don’t have to go through this again ”

She said her department is going to “aggressively push” to have the new software system in place by July, with an “allhands-on deck” approach to get the software ready by the next registration pe- riod She said the software registration is her No. 1 priority in the next four months

The capital cost for the new software, called ActiveNet, is $3 15 million, according to the staff report.

Gill said next time registration comes, she plans to go earlier: “My daughter loves to swim, and I would keep trying ”