Council adopts NIST‑based cybersecurity policy after utility board approval

Jul 14, 2026

The council adopted resolution 26‑72 and policy P26‑01 to reorganize the city's cybersecurity documentation around the NIST framework (identify, protect, detect, respond, recover), consolidating overlapping requirements and clarifying governance and responsibilities.

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Patrick Poole presented a reorganization of Coldwater's cybersecurity policy designed to consolidate a sprawling library of documents into a single governance framework based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework. Poole told council the goal is to reduce overlap—cutting roughly 500 overlapping requirements to about 150—and make responsibilities clearer and more actionable for staff (Patrick Poole, speaker 11).

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