This increase is one of several marked throughout the city’s FY 2022-23 operating budget, including an overall budget increase of 6.3 percent or approximately $60 million, bringing the city’s total budget to a little over $1 billion.
Other notable budget increases include a $486,000, or 16.7 percent, increase for IT staff compensation and benefits, and a $766,200, or 15.5 percent, increase for equipment expenses, vehicle maintenance and software costs.
As for how this specifically impacts IT, the city’s budget highlights the following goals:
- Implement a five‐year strategic plan to establish the city’s technological vision and strategy.
- Issue a request for proposals to increase Internet bandwidth to support normal business operations.
- Provide professional development opportunities for IT staff.
- Continue to support the ongoing technology needs of all city departments.
- Support safe and informed usage of the Internet and all city systems through ongoing employee cybersecurity training.
- Replace data center compute layers in the city’s primary and alternate data centers. Provide continuous updates and improvements to Storage Area Networks (SAN).
- Complete the implementation of Microsoft Office 365 cloud‐based services.
- Continue the ongoing replacement of infrastructure, desktops, data storage and servers.
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