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County IT asks planning subcommittee to back cybersecurity, broadband expansion and legacy-system replacements
Summary
The Office of Information Technology told the Planning Board subcommittee it needs capital funding to replace aging systems, expand fiber and broadband to underserved areas, continue digital-equity work and bolster cybersecurity and incident response.
Chris Martin, deputy director of the Office of Information Technology, told the Planning Board Subcommittee that OITis the centralized IT organization that supports county departments and that its FY26 capital request focuses on cybersecurity, fiber and broadband expansion, reducing technical debt and replacing legacy systems.
"OIT is a centralized IT department for the county government," Martin said. He described a portfolio that supports roughly 12,000 endpoint devices, about 55 active projects at any time and a mix of capital and operating work that funds both implementation and ongoing software licensing.
Martin reviewed multi-year work to remove aging systems, citing recent removals such as the mainframe and replacement of a legacy computer-aided dispatch system. Current priorities include cybersecurity resilience and incident response…
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