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IT director seeks larger budget for cloud migration, mobile CAD/RMS and courtroom AV upgrades
Summary
Kerr County IT staff presented a budget with notable increases tied to a cloud (Office 365) migration, mobile CAD/RMS services to support sheriff vehicle communications, higher software-as-a-service costs for Navigator, and placeholder capital for courtroom AV upgrades and paperless-court equipment.
The county's information-technology director told the Commissioners Court the department is projecting increases driven primarily by software-as-a-service contracts, a planned cloud migration, mobile CAD/RMS installation for sheriff vehicles and potential audiovisual upgrades for courtrooms.
The IT director said the county faces a major one-time cost for a mobile CAD/RMS install for patrol vehicles, describing "the initial install for that for the coming fiscal year is a hundred thousand dollar install with annual services of 20,000 per year after," and explained that the project requires on-premise communications equipment to relay data to vehicles.
Nut graf: The IT budget also includes a large software-maintenance line tied to Navigator (the county's case/docket system), an Office 365 migration planned to be funded with ARPA dollars for the near term, and capital placeholders for courtroom paperless-court equipment and AV upgrades; staff emphasized disaster-recovery and server-replacement planning.
The director told the court the Navigator software-as-a-service and related licenses account for a large portion of the projected increase, and that two recent server installations highlighted the county's need for ongoing disaster-recovery capacity. He described planning for integrated courtroom equipment that would allow judges to access dockets and use bench-level signature/fingerprint scanners and said the county is coordinating with neighboring counties to align solutions.
Ending: The court heard the IT requests and asked staff to continue refining cost estimates. No action was taken at the workshop; IT will present final budget figures and any contract details during the formal budget process.
