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Nordonia Hills City outlines $566,000 network overhaul, server migration and cybersecurity push
Summary
IT Director Mike Russ told the board the district completed a roughly $566,000 network overhaul with about 40% E-rate reimbursement, plans a server migration to Proxmox to save about $14,000 a year, and is working with NeoNet and a Filament contractor to meet House Bill 96 cybersecurity requirements ahead of an expected July 1 audit.
Mike Russ, the district's IT director, briefed the Nordonia Hills City School Board on Feb. 17 about recent and planned technology investments and an escalating cybersecurity compliance effort tied to Ohio House Bill 96.
Russ said the district completed a core network overhaul last summer at a project cost of about $566,000 and that, because of the district's free-and-reduced-lunch rate, the E-rate program will reimburse roughly 40 percent of that cost — about $225,000. "This past…
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