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Lakeville IT director outlines leveled FY26 budget, temporary Windows 10 support and disaster‑recovery upgrades
Summary
Information Technology director told the Select Board the FY26 IT budget is essentially level and described near‑term steps: one‑year extended Windows 10 support for older machines, contract inflation for vendor services, a new server room at the new administrative building and plans for redundant internet and disaster‑recovery sites.
Bob McNally, Lakeville’s information technology director, told the Select Board on April 15 that his proposed FY26 budget is essentially level and that he expects to absorb some contract and licensing increases without a significant capital request.
McNally said an error on the printed budget first page overstated an increase; the corrected figure shows a 1.13% reduction from the prior year. “It actually shows an increase of 22. That is actually a typing mistake. It's actually causing a decrease of 1.13%,” McNally said.
McNally described several programmatic and infrastructure items that the board should expect in the coming year. He said the town negotiated an interim approach to endpoints that cannot upgrade to Windows 11: Microsoft is offering extended support for Windows…
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