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Gallatin County IT asks commissioners to fund subscriptions, website refresh and digital signage
Summary
County Chief Information Officer Matt Bunko asked commissioners to approve a mix of one-time and ongoing funding for software maintenance, computer replacements and public-facing digital projects; he offered options to reduce near-term costs by deferring replacements or using templates.
Matt Bunko, Gallatin County chief information officer, asked the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday to approve funding to cover maintenance, licensing and subscription increases in the county’s enterprise IT budget and to support site-upgrade projects including a website refresh and building digital signage.
Bunko said subscription and maintenance costs account for the largest share of the request and that those costs keep rising year to year as software moves from perpetual licenses to subscription models. “Microsoft, our collaboration tools, they went up 7% alone this year,” he said. Bunko said his office could reduce the startup ask by $211,000 by deferring about 85% of scheduled computer…
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