San Antonio Adopts $122M IT Services Budget

The city of San Antonio’s approved budget for Fiscal Year 2024-25 includes $122 million for its Information Technology Services Department.

The department’s budget includes $95 million in the IT Services Fund, $26.4 million for capital projects and $667,789 from the city’s Airport Terminal Development Program Fund.

As the bulk of the department’s budget, the IT services fund is broken down into six major expenditures:

• $43.4 million for personnel services
• $40 million for contractual services
• $8.4 million for self-insurance
• $3.1 million for transfers
• $485,350 for capital outlay
• $212,037 for commodities

The department has seven capital projects listed in the city’s spending plan for 2025:

• $13 million for financial system upgrades
• $5 million for new technology projects
• $4.5 million for IT infrastructure replacements
• $1.5 million to replace the Alamo Area Regional Radio System (AARRS)
• $1 million for cloud services
• $1 million for public safety computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system upgrades
• $400,000 for public safety facilities infrastructure improvements

Nearly all the airport terminal development funds have been allocated to personnel services, with less than $1,000 reserved for commodities.

The adopted budget also details the $1.1 million Municipal Court Technology Fund, nearly all of which will pay for contractual services.

Additional IT-related projects and expenditures listed in the budget include $1.8 million for the city’s intelligent traffic system, $600,000 for a computerized maintenance management system, $289,849 for Freedom of Information Act text message software, and $8,839 for an incident management system.