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County flags major MIS staffing and software maintenance costs in FY27 requests
Summary
Officials told commissioners MIS requested five positions and large software maintenance contracts that could raise a work-center upgrade line from roughly $185,000 to about $1.55M; county leaders suggested moving some capital to fund balance and building a programmatic approach to lifecycle replacement.
Chair warned that MIS (information services) is requesting five positions — including website and network administrators — and several expensive software maintenance contracts that together substantially increase capital and operating needs. "There are some software maintenance contracts we have that'll be in excess of $750,000," the Chair said, and noted single purchases can reach several hundred thousand dollars.
He proposed shifting large work-center upgrades to capital projects funded from fund balance rather than department tax-rate-funded lines to free up departmental dollars, while cautioning that doing so risks repeating similar capital pressure in future years. Commissioners were asked to weigh whether to treat large MIS upgrades as capital investments or departmental operating needs.
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