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JFAC approves major IT consolidation, adds staff and language for cash reconciliation
Summary
The Joint Committee approved Office of Information Technology Services (OITS) enhancements that add roughly $10.7 million across funds, transfer nearly 58 positions from Health and Welfare, and approved one-time language authorizing a $458,700 cash transfer to cover transition-year health insurance costs for transferred employees. The committee also required the State Controller to report reconciliations of cash balances back to LUMA's 2023 go-live date.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a package of Office of Information Technology Services enhancements that includes enterprise security, hardware replacements and a large IT modernization that transfers dozens of positions from the Department of Health and Welfare into OITS.
Christopher LaHoset, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the committee the OITS modernization would add 59.5 full-time-equivalent positions and roughly $10.68 million across general, dedicated and federal funds for FY2027. "The agency…
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