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Lorain finance subcommittee flags IT maintenance, licensing and capital costs ahead of budget vote
Summary
Officials were warned maintenance agreement and licensing costs are driving a large portion of the IT budget next year, with licenses for email security, backups and virtual-server software cited as the main drivers and planned capital purchases for hosts and PCs noted as near-term needs.
Lorain’s finance subcommittee on Monday examined next year’s IT budget, hearing that rising maintenance and licensing costs — particularly for email security, backups and virtualization software — are the largest drivers of the department’s proposed increase.The subcommittee’s chair opened the session by saying the committee would review the IT director’s line items and ask non-line-item questions first. The IT director told the panel two main cost categories dominate the request: maintenance agreements and contractual services, with maintenance agreements identified as the larger of…
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