Cocoa Allocates $3M for IT in 2025-29 Capital Improvement Plan

The city of Cocoa has allocated $3.1 million to its Information Technology Department in its fiscal year 2025-29 capital improvement plan (CIP).

In total, the city has set aside $173 million for the fiscal year beginning in October, signaling a 2.3 percent increase from the previous fiscal year.

In terms of specific budget allocations for tech, the city’s capital improvement plan outlines the following:

• $1.8 million for total operating expenditures, including contract services, rentals, leases, training and other professional services 
• $1.2 million for IT Department personnel services 
• $75,000 for capital outlay, including infrastructure, IT hardware and subscription-based IT arrangement assets 
• $51,698 for total debt service, with funds primarily allocated for a lease for copiers 

Also noted in the city’s capital improvement plan are the following goals and objectives:

• Increase IT spending of the overall city budget to 2 percent of operating expenses by reallocating funds from other areas within the existing budget 
• Maintain an IT ticket closure rate above 98 percent 
• Reduce escalated alerts by 10 percent annually through improved automated threat detection and aim for a minimum of 70 percent positive rate for escalated alerts 
• Maintain spam blocking efficiency above 85 percent and malware blocking efficiency above 1.5 percent 
• Increase IT full-time employees to 2.5 percent over the next three years 

More information about the city’s 2025-29 CIP can be found online.