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Brainerd council directs staff to create single integrated IT department after joint presentation
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After presentations from city and Public Utilities IT staff on technical, staffing and contractual constraints, Brainerd City Council voted unanimously to direct staff to create a single integrated city IT department and to prepare job descriptions for an IT director and support roles.
Brainerd City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to direct staff to create a single integrated city IT department after a joint presentation by city and Public Utilities IT staff laying out technical, staffing and contractual considerations.
The move follows an 18‑slide briefing from Sean Strong, the city’s IT/GIS director, and Aaron Anderson, BPU IT supervisor, who described separate, specialized networks and long‑lived software packages on both sides and warned that a full technical convergence would be gradual. "We're not gonna combine those together," Strong said, emphasizing that segregated networks and operational‑technology systems require distinct handling.
City Administrator Nick Broyles urged the council to give staff a clear direction to break a months‑long limbo. "I strongly recommend that the city council support…
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