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Commissioners approve IT budget realignment to accelerate recreation software upgrade
Summary
County IT staff won approval to reallocate savings from Microsoft licensing to buy replacement recreation software (CivicPlus) and to put remaining savings into the commissioners’ emergency reserve.
On May 6 the St. Mary’s County commissioners approved a budget amendment allowing the information-technology department to reallocate one-time savings from a Microsoft licensing timing adjustment to purchase a new recreation and parks management system and to place remaining savings into the commissioners’ emergency reserve.
IT director Bob Kelly told commissioners that a prior Microsoft licensing renewal had been bridged to an August payment date, producing approximately $215,000 in timing savings. “We’re able to do that because…
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