JFO consultant tells House committee statewide IT projects mostly on track but flags ERP risks

Joint Fiscal Office consultant Lisa Gavan briefed the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee on Jan. 8 on a suite of large state IT initiatives, saying several projects are progressing while others — notably the statewide ERP implementation using Workday — contain notable gaps and risks.

"For the record, Lisa Gavan. I'm the contracted Joint Fiscal Office IT consultant," she told members, and then walked through a consolidated document of monitored projects, appropriations and planned reviews. Gavan said the Department of Labor’s unemployment insurance modernization — a multi-year replacement of legacy tax and benefits systems — began three years ago and is on track to finish in May 2026. She reported total appropriations of roughly $52.3 million and a known implementation cost of about $45.3 million, leaving a roughly $7.0 million balance intended for business-process redesign and staff augmentation.

Gavan framed those figures as provisional and based on current reporting. "They're actually, I think, going to come in under budget," she said of…