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Gainesville staff outline plan to bring IT services in-house after one-year SLA with GRU

City of Gainesville General Policy Committee · November 13, 2025
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Summary

City technology director told commissioners the city negotiated a one-year service-level agreement with Gainesville Regional Utilities and expects a FY26 SLA of about $3.7 million while planning a staged migration of servers, networks and user services to city control.

Mayor opened the meeting to an ITSLA update from the city’s technology director. Mister Nagy, the city’s technology director, introduced new members of the technology team and said city leadership had decided to take more IT functions in-house after reviewing increasing costs under GRU’s prior arrangement.

Mister Nagy said the city executed a one-year SLA with Gainesville Regional Utilities on Sept. 29 to provide time for a planned migration. "It is just a 1 year agreement," he said, and added that staff left open the option of defining longer-running, more discreet services with GRU into 2027 if needed.

On costs, Mister Nagy summarized prior estimates and the negotiated…

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