QUINCY (WGEM) – Quincy officers are discussing adjustments coming to town’s Info Expertise Division’s funds.
The know-how committee met to debate the funds for fiscal yr 2023 to 2024.
Town confronted cyber attacks on their know-how on Could 7, 2022.
In Friday’s assembly, IT supervisor Corey Dean proposed a 58% enhance to the funds.
Mayor Mike Troup stated that enhance ought to cowl bills to rent two new employees members to town’s info know-how workforce.
“For many of this final yr, this present fiscal yr, we went from 4 to a few employees folks, we’re including to,” Troup stated. “Nicely whenever you add two to deliver as much as 5 from three, that’s the place you get that proportion enhance.”
Troup stated IT is trying to rent two extra folks to unfold the work load that’s elevated, since putting in extra software program since final years information breach.
Troup stated the proposed funds enhance will probably be left within the fingers of the Quincy Metropolis Council to approve or deny.
Troup stated the funds have to be accepted by the tip of April, as a result of the fiscal yr funds for 2023 to 2024 have to be accepted by Could 1.
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