The city’s budget is still in the works, but so far the Department of Information Technology is on track to get slightly more funding than it did last year.
Several significant technology projects are out for bid with deadlines set for later this month. The projects include a new budgeting and forecasting system and a department-wide hardware replacement.
The city of San Diego and the Santa Clara Valley Water District are among the local entities in the early stages of technology projects.
The city will spend about $3.5 million in fiscal 2024 on hardware, software and connectivity; $1.5 million for installation and maintenance over the life of the contract; and $100,000 to replace LED lights. The network will cost about $2 million annually over the remaining fiscal years.
Mayor Todd Gloria said his office will be proposing amendments to San Diego’s hard-fought surveillance ordinance next month, a law that has continued to cause controversy and confusion since its passage.
The City Council agreed this week to pay 35 percent more per year for citywide usage of Dell computers as well as Microsoft programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams and OneDrive.
Others in the early stage of technology projects include Santa Clara County, the city of San Diego and the University of California, San Francisco.
The state’s second most populous city gave itself 12 months to evaluate the use of its many surveillance technologies or put them on pause — and with about nine months gone, not a single tool has been fully evaluated.
