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City leaders press for IT hires, data cleanup and modernization as systems age
Summary
Department heads told a retreat Lake Stevens’ IT systems and data stores are increasingly legacy-bound and at risk of losing value; staff recommended a new application/data analyst position, a GIS technician, and investments in SharePoint governance and software modernization to realize efficiencies and protect prior tech investments.
City technology and department leaders told a Lake Stevens budget retreat that the city’s growing data holdings and an aging mix of software create operational and security risks.
Troy (IT director) said the city recently migrated large volumes of content into SharePoint but lacks staff to clean, maintain and govern that content. He and other speakers said many documents are scanned images without OCR, which prevents modern search and AI‑assisted analysis until documents are…
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