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County CIO says IT budget up amid sheriff integration and aging servers
Summary
Vernon Lutz, the county and city chief information officer, told the Vanderburgh County Council the joint IT budget rises about 9.7% largely because the sheriff's office was added to county systems and older servers must be replaced; he highlighted negotiated savings and said cybersecurity investments helped lower insurance costs.
Vernon Lutz, the chief information officer for the city and county, told the Vanderburgh County Council on Aug. 15 that the joint computer-services budget shows an overall increase of about 9.68%, with the county share rising 10.74% and the city's portion 8.72. He said the primary drivers are bringing the sheriff's office onto the county-managed systems and the need to replace aging server hardware.
"The overall increase is 9.68 for the joint budget. For the county's portion, it's 10.74, and the city's is 8.72," Lutz said, noting last year's addition of the sheriff and courts to the joint environment. Lutz…
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