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Fire chief asks for IT contract services to finish records and mobile systems; council asked for plan
Summary
Fire Chief Doug O'Malley told the council the department is midtransition on records management, mobile data terminals and other integrated systems and needs contractual IT support; finance committee placed $100,000 in one‑time funds to hire contract services through the IT department.
The council heard from Fire Chief Doug O'Malley and information‑technology staff about an amendment adding $100,000 to the office of integrated technology solutions to secure outside contract services to support the fire department.
"We have multiple IT programs that we've initiated. And right now, I've got firefighters and I've got battalion chiefs that are taking time out of their duties to try to be IT specialists. It's just not working for us," Chief Doug O'Malley said, describing an effort to complete a records management system (RMS) conversion and integrate pay,…
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