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IT director outlines $14.3M technology budget, warns of lost federal cybersecurity sensor
Summary
IT Director Adam Lortz presented a $14.3 million IT budget, described rising licensing and equipment costs, plans for web and AI initiatives, and said the county’s federal ALBERT cyber sensor will be returned, removing a free external monitoring layer.
Information Technology Director Adam Lortz told the Benton County Budget Committee that the IT department’s current-service-level budget is $14,300,000 and that, after proposed reductions and reclassifications, the department’s proposed budget would be roughly 13.7% above the 2023–25 adopted level.
Lortz emphasized that a growing share of the IT budget covers recurring software licensing, backup and archive services, and equipment-replacement reserves. He described a two-part structure in IT — operations (systems, network, service desk) and an innovations team focusing on business process improvements and new service rollouts including Microsoft Teams and AI tools — and he highlighted work to…
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