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Assembly hears digital services warning: cloud records storage could rise sharply without options

3145598 · April 14, 2025
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Digital Services staff told the Assembly Finance Committee that growth in video and high-density records has driven a sharp projected increase in cloud storage costs for the borough's records-management system and presented short-term and multi-year options for limiting a forecasted rise.

Digital Services managers told the Assembly Finance Committee that growth in video, public records and scanned high-density files has driven a rapid rise in cloud storage needs for the borough's records management (Civic Engage/CivicRec) system and could push related costs substantially higher over the next few years.

The department said the emergency communications reserve currently has a $244,000 balance and that staff are asking the assembly to add $30,000 back into that reserve after an earlier appropriation of about $178,000 for a system refresh. Technology managers described an ongoing refresh and said the reserve target is roughly $300,000.

Digital Services staff said the borough's records-management platform…

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