Call it a Kansas City tech collabo or a cost cutting measure . . . Here's an emergency ordinance funded at around $3-MILLION.
Ordinance 170966 - The City and the Police Department are consolidating IT platforms, software, maintenance and operations where feasible
In theory the police/state (heh) cooperation could create greater efficiency or simply moves us closer to City Hall control of the dept. that seem inevitable and will start to happen in 2018.
Developing . . .
Gee, what could go wrong.
ReplyDeleteI don't know. What could?
ReplyDeleteAs a Retiree I would hope that someone is challenging this. This appears to be another attempt at local control. Have the civilians been made aware of this? Chapter 84 addresses what the BOPC is permitted to do, and this most certainly does not meet that requirement.
ReplyDeleteWe need to get rid of the police IT department.
ReplyDeleteWe need to keep the It department.
ReplyDeleteThe City It department we need to keep.
ReplyDeleteThe City has an IT Department? What do they do?
ReplyDeleteEvery time you call 311 and they transfer you to another Department "the computers are down", so what does IT do?
Is it all about rebooting Sly's Laptop after he's picked up another virus watching Japanese Porn?
The City IT Department is a wonderful service to Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteIf we’re such a smart city then why doesn’t kcmo.gov website not work worth a damn, even city employees joke about how bad their outdated systems and computers are. It’s a wonder anything under this mayors watch works at all
ReplyDeleteCraigslist is running slow can Sylvester fix that too?
ReplyDeleteOnly if it pertains to downtown and the airport, new airport that is.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of the Police IT department they don't do anything anyway.
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