Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Dubuque council hears IT budget with $1.8M data center move and Copilot pilot
Summary
City IT leaders outlined a fiscal 2026 budget request and described a new Tier‑3-ish data center, broadband partnerships and a Microsoft Copilot pilot. Net property tax support for IT is roughly $2.0 million; the department is also seeking recurring funding for 100 Copilot licenses.
Chris Coleman, special projects manager in the Dubuque information technology department, told the City Council on April 22 that the department plans to move operations into a new Chavenau data center and is requesting continued property tax support as part of its fiscal‑year 2026 request.
Coleman and Joe Pragler, interim chief information officer and chief security officer, described the data center as a roughly 1,000‑square‑foot, Tier‑3‑class installation built with redundancy for cooling, power and monitoring; the IT team reported the combined cost for the data center build and office redesign at about $1.8 million. Coleman said the project was paid for with a combination of CIP savings, available ARPA funds and other department savings. The department’s FY26 net property tax support request is “slightly over $2,000,000,” and IT’s share of the…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
