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State IT steering committee reviews draft CIO annual report and consolidation plan; no votes due to lack of quorum
Summary
The Office of Enterprise Technology Services presented a draft CIO annual report and an update on the IT consolidation plan, highlighting that ETS’s annual expenditures are about $50,000,000 and that almost all departments now have one-page IT strategies. No formal votes were held because the committee lacked quorum.
Christine Sakuda, state chief information officer and chair of the IT steering committee, presented a high-level walkthrough of the Office of Enterprise Technology Services’ (ETS) draft CIO annual report and an update on the state IT consolidation plan during a virtual committee meeting. The committee did not have quorum and deferred formal approvals until a future session.
The draft report — led by senior communications manager and PIO Lehi Dela Cruz — summarizes ETS’s strategic priorities, modernization projects and awards, and previewed work planned for 2026. Sakuda told the committee that "ETS annual expenditures are about $50,000,000 a year," and that spending is divided among operational support to departments, IT governance, cybersecurity, data/AI initiatives and workforce development.
Sakuda highlighted a major initiative from the past year: department-level IT strategies. "Few departments actually had department IT strategies last year. This year, almost all of the departments have their department IT strategies," she said, noting ETS helped departments produce concise one-page strategy summaries designed to align department IT goals with the state IT strategic plan.
The report also documents ETS’s approach to project oversight. Sakuda said ETS is strengthening governance for independent verification and validation (IV&V) of major modernization projects and will continue to surface IV&V findings to the committee in 2026. When asked about IV&V procurement by Senator Moriwaki, Sakuda explained that IV&V is targeted at larger projects and procured through an RFP process; "we don't only use 1 vendor to do the report," she said, noting different vendors may be selected for different projects.
On the IT consolidation plan, Sakuda said ETS has been working with a department leadership working group since 2022 and is preparing recommendations to the legislature, referencing related legislation (Act 173, Act 170 and Act 179). She invited committee feedback and said the final CIO annual report and the consolidation plan will be shared at the next IT steering committee meeting. The committee set the next meeting for February 26 and, because quorum was not present, deferred approval of minutes and other agenda votes.
Because there were no formal votes at the meeting, the committee’s next steps are administrative: ETS staff will circulate the draft for comment, ETS will finalize the language for submission ahead of the legislative deadline, and the ITSC will reconvene with quorum to consider formal approval.
