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IT presents $2.29 million in capital requests including body-worn camera replacement and AI exploration
Summary
Boulder County Information Technology outlined proposed capital and operating investments for 2026 totaling roughly $2.29 million in project requests, including a multi-year replacement of the sheriff’s body-worn camera system, a housing authority software upgrade, and funding to explore artificial intelligence tools and governance.
Paul Janapour, Information Technology Director, presented the county’s Information Technology capital requests and TRAC (Technology Resource Advisory Committee) prioritization during the Oct. 7 meeting.
Janapour said the total of IT project requests on the TRAC list is $2,287,000. He described a portfolio of projects that included a housing authority enterprise upgrade (funded by the Boulder County Housing Authority with IT staff resources requested), a multi-year replacement and vendor transition for the sheriff’s body-worn camera system and associated cloud forensics storage, and a set of discovery and contracted-staff requests to support major applications such as the integrated case management (ICM) platform for human services.
On the sheriff body-worn camera project, Janapour described a 5-year pricing proposal. "The total ask here is for $2,845,000 over 5 years," he said, noting existing operating commitments of about $800,000 that could be transferred to the new contract and that the net new capital ask is structured as $569,000 per year for five years. Janapour said the replacement would include higher video quality, longer battery life and integrated evidence management; commissioners asked whether existing cameras could be reused with new software and whether the chosen vendor procurement predated recent county procurement/disparity work. Janapour said he would confirm compatibility of current hardware with the proposed vendor and noted the procurement preceded recent county procurement rules.
Other IT requests Janapour presented included contracted technical staff for camera maintenance across nearly 1,700 county cameras ($285,000), upgrades to Human Services business applications including a multi-year ICM replacement ($665,000 in 2026 and $332,800 in 2027), a board of equalization appeals application ($300,000 initial + $60,000 annually), and a $143,787 package to assess and pilot county AI capabilities (licensing such as Microsoft Copilot and consultant support for AI governance and use cases).
Janapour and commissioners discussed prioritization categories, project staffing capacity and whether consultant/contract resources would be shared across projects. No funding decisions were made; the items were presented for board review ahead of November budget deliberations.
