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Technology director defends deferred upgrades, asks council to restore small operational cuts
Summary
Brianna Escobar told the council her department trimmed non‑salary spending by 5.7% and deferred a major server refresh to next year to reduce immediate cost, but asked that the council restore modest cuts to website hosting, archiving and capital nonrecurring lines to preserve public records compliance and security projects.
Brianna Escobar, director of technology services, said department leaders took a 5.7% reduction (excluding salary lines) that included postponing a data center hardware refresh and moving more local files to a paid cloud storage solution to reduce next‑year refresh costs. She said aftermarket hardware support (Park Place, a state‑contract vendor) will mitigate risk while the refresh is deferred.
Escobar urged the council to restore modest cuts that could jeopardize contracted services — specifically $4,000 cut across website hosting and social‑media archiving that are needed to comply with public‑records retention — and highlighted capital requests including Harbor Park security cameras and public Wi‑Fi funded through a state program. She also noted some cybersecurity services are currently supported with state grant funding that will sunset.
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