Director Brett Fanning told the Joint Appropriations Committee the Department of Revenue completed a major lift to move the statewide CAMA (computer assisted mass appraisal) camera/system to cloud hosting and is now seeking ongoing hosting funds and several related server and storage capital items.

Fanning said the cloud migration improved security and modernization, reduced the need for department staff to travel to county servers and provided consistent platforms across counties; the department requested roughly $831,137 for a hosting arrangement that would keep the CAMA system available 12 hours each day, seven days a week (the department may expand availability if usage demands increase). Administrator Ken Gill said the hosting is blanket across all 23 counties plus an internal test environment.

The department also requested other IT exception items: correction to ETS 400‑series billing after an audit, additional third‑party maintenance for core mineral and excise tax systems (estimated $100,000), SAN storage array replacement ($65,000 one‑time), and other backup/recovery capacity driven by ETS rate and usage changes.

Why it matters: the CAMA and tax systems underpin property tax calculations, mineral/excise collections and other revenue flows. Fanning told the committee that uptime and timely processing are essential to avoid disruptions in revenue distribution and county workflows.

What's next: ETS and the state budget department explained how rate changes and usage increases will be tracked through the chapter 17 and exception request process; lawmakers asked for monitoring plans and usage analytics to manage cost growth.