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Sedgwick County staff to seek multimillion-dollar upgrade to tax software; budget transfer planned
Summary
County staff told commissioners a fit-gap analysis raised the expected cost of a tax system upgrade to roughly $3.5 million and that they will ask to transfer budget authority from the county's rainy day reserve to cover the gap; the project is expected to take about 21 months and affects tax processing for more than 100 taxing entities.
Sedgwick County staff told the county commission at an agenda-review meeting that they will present a contract and a request to transfer budget authority from the county's rainy day reserve to pay for an upgrade to the county tax system.
The upgrade is now estimated in multiple presentations during the meeting at roughly $3.3 million to $3.6 million; staff said the final contracted amount shown in the bid board item will be presented to the commission for approval. "It is a 15 year old system," Lindsey, a county staff member, said, adding the county is moving from an on‑premises system to a hosted system and that the change should avoid capacity problems that recently caused a multi‑day outage.
A fit‑gap analysis completed since the initial TRB estimate increased the projected cost well beyond the $850,000 that had been identified previously for this year. Lindsey said staff will ask the commission to approve a transfer of…
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