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City staff urge excluding IT from cuts, cite rising contracts and AI pilots
Summary
City administration highlighted the $23.2 million IT budget and recommended excluding IT from operational reductions because of cybersecurity and enterprise risk; IT and legal said the city is piloting AI tools to increase efficiency while preserving oversight.
City administrators and the chief information officer told the commission that information technology is a major cost driver among internal-governance departments and urged caution before reducing IT funding.
Faye Johnson summarized internal-governance budgets and said IT's annual operating budget is roughly $23,200,000, with $13.8 million categorized as nondiscretionary. "I am asking for the board's…
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