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Kootenai County moves FY25 IT funds to cover sudden VMware price spike, plans longer-term IT review
Summary
County information-technology staff won approval to roll unspent FY2025 IT funds into FY2026 after a vendor renewal quote raised short-term costs; staff said the move buys time to evaluate alternatives and continue planned projects such as multifactor authentication and OnBase work.
Kootenai County IT staff won commissioner approval Sept. 23 to carry unspent fiscal-year-2025 IT funds forward into FY2026 to cover an unexpectedly large vendor renewal and to continue planned projects.
Grant Kinsey, network administrator, told the Board the county received a renewal quote for its VMware platform about three weeks before the meeting that raised the expected annual subscription cost to roughly five times the prior price. Kinsey said the county had budgeted to absorb typical renewals but the recent jump required a short-term…
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