We're not building pyramids, we're building people.

One organism

• City Hall becomes a modern digital library, not a purveyor.
• People run the process. Information comes from the people first.
• Ask by voice or touch. The answer comes up, with its source.

Nuts and bolts

• 4 maxed Mac Studios, about $30,000 each ($29,799)
• 2 NVIDIA workstations, about $53,000 each (est.)
• Mirrored storage, 100 TB
• 15 iPads and 8 public kiosks
• About $150,000 (est.) to wire council chambers with cameras and mics for live transcripts

The engine

Open-source software, no license fees. Build it here and the know-how stays here.

The team

• Information Keeper, about $218,000 with benefits (est.)
• Systems engineer, archives librarian, media producer, one developer
• About $672,000 a year for the whole team (est.)
• If the current IT Director becomes the Keeper: about $454,000 a year new (est.)

Totals

What stays separate

Police, fire and other isolated systems stay isolated. Linking them is planned and paid for separately.

The pitch

• The 2027 budget roughly doubles public safety, from $30.1M to $61.4M, and $32.2M of that is capital.
• A city that can find that much can find this.
• Seek grants.
• Become the city that figured out its future.

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