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Senate panel probes $10 million shift in NDIT budget after new governor's proposal
Summary
Members of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee questioned state information-technology leaders about roughly $10 million in ongoing funding differences between the Burgum and Armstrong executive budgets, focusing on FTE changes, a removed $15 million AI line, and ongoing chargeback and administrative funding models.
The Senate Appropriations Human Resources subcommittee spent a major portion of its hearing reviewing the Department of Information Technology(NDIT) budget after the Armstrong administrationsubmitted an executive proposal that is roughly $10 million lower in ongoing funding than the prior Burgum proposal.
Subcommittee members, led by Chairman Deaver and Senator Davison, asked NDIT leaders to explain the delta and the practical implications for staffing and agency chargebacks. "One of the biggest changes... was a $15,000,000 funding for artificial intelligence strategy," Greg Hoffman, deputy chief information officer for the state, told the panel, and he noted that Armstrongremoved that line from the single-agency budget because similar policy bills now under…
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