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Supervisors press Department of Technology for consolidation plan and savings targets
Summary
The committee heard a multi-part DT budget briefing that emphasized centralizing city IT, consolidating email, and stronger procurement. DT said its budget is about $93 million and outlined efficiency and staffing changes; auditors and budget analysts highlighted long-standing fragmentation and estimated modest near-term general-fund savings.
The Board’s Full Budget Committee heard a detailed presentation from the Department of Technology (DT), its leadership and the budget analyst on an effort to consolidate city IT systems and capture savings.
City CIO Chris Vien told supervisors the department seeks a unified technology platform to support city business and public services, and identified a move to a single hosted email system and enterprise standards for desktops and purchasing as priorities. Vien said the Department of Technology’s total budget is about $93 million and that DT and decentralized departmental IT together account for a larger, citywide IT spend (budget analyst and civil grand jury figures discussed later). He described a shift from a chargeback model to a cost-allocation model, a reduction of roughly 40 net…
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