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Fort Worth Budgets $17M for IT Capital Improvements in 2025

The city's adopted budget for 2025 includes plans to adopt artificial intelligence applications with the potential to improve workflow efficiencies and provide predictive maintenance for city assets.

Aerial view of Fort Worth.
The city of Fort Worth is allocating $17 million to information technology capital improvements for Fiscal Year 2025, according to the city’s capital improvement plan.

Projects listed in the IT chapter of the improvement plan to be funded include $9 million for technology infrastructure, $5 million for hardware refreshes, $2 million for enterprise resource planning and $1 million for business applications.

Business applications include citizen-facing systems, enterprisewide systems and department-specific systems managed on a systemwide upgrade schedule.

Planned hardware procurements include the repair and purchasing of PCs, laptops, associated network devices and radio equipment.

Additionally, the city’s adopted budget for 2025 includes specific plans for upcoming procurements:
  • Artificial intelligence applications
  • New asset management tools for the Transportation and Public Works Department
  • Digital payment system enhancements
  • A fleet management information system upgrade
  • Data system upgrades
Chandler Treon is an Austin-based staff writer. He has a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s degree in literature and a master’s degree in technical communication, all from Texas State University.