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Budget review highlights IT allocation concerns, insurance discrepancy and calls to centralize services
Summary
County staff raised questions about how IT and other central costs have been allocated across projects, cited a possible $30,000 insurance allocation discrepancy for the sheriff, and discussed whether human services should be consolidated to reduce redundancy; no votes were taken.
Davis County staff and commissioners used an Oct. 2 budget-review meeting to press for clearer accounting of centralized costs, flag a potential insurance-allocation discrepancy, and discuss whether some services should be centralized to gain economies of scale.
Jeff Hassett (Speaker 3), who identified himself as representing Information Systems, warned that pulling central IT staff to perform installation work at new facilities can hide project costs. "You're somewhat hiding the full cost of the building wire," he said, arguing that county standards and inspection could control quality without reallocating IT staff away from their primary…
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