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Gainesville outlines multi‑year plan to bring IT in‑house, flags network and lifecycle risks
Summary
The city presented a plan to migrate systems from GRU IT to a new city technology department, identified urgent network and cybersecurity needs, estimated a $4.2 million transition budget and asked commissioners to prioritize network infrastructure and lifecycle funding in the coming months.
Gainesville’s newly formed technology department told the City Commission on March 5 that moving dozens of applications and hundreds of network devices out of GRU control and into a city IT environment will be a complex, multiyear effort that requires immediate work on the network and security layers.
Technology Director Ed Nagy told the commission the department completed an inventory of the city’s IT assets and “triaged 371 different applications,” and that an error on the slide should have noted “92 applications that are impacted by the transition from GRU.” He described a cloud‑first strategy, said the city lacks direct access to many current systems and called building a new secure network the near‑term “urgent” priority.
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