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County administrator urges centralizing IT spending to cut general‑fund pressure
Summary
County administration proposed consolidating data‑processing hardware and software budgets under Information Technology to reduce pressure on the general fund and realize subscription economies.
Jeff Taylor, the county administrator, told the council Wednesday that county staff intentionally increased the IT capital budget to ease general‑fund pressure and to combine subscriptions countywide.
“We rolled up a bunch of costs this year and got some good prices on subscriptions by combining everything rather than this department have theirs and that department have theirs,” Taylor said. He asked staff to identify which departments still have data‑processing hardware and software budgeted in their 1000 account so the county can move those lines into IT’s central budget.
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