All of the money would go to one building, the former IBM building on 1000 Belleview Street, where the city plans to move its data center run by the Information and Technology Services Department.The smallest ballot proposition for a $1.25 billion bond package Dallas voters will weigh in on starting this week is expected to
Gardner said that of the $5 million bond money proposal, $2.25 million is planned for building upgrades, $1.2 million for an electronic system that controls physical access throughout the facility, $800,000 for a power supply that offers emergency power when the main source fails, and $750,000 for the fire alarm system.
The city’s IT department was initially seeking $30 million in bond money to pay for upgrading and moving operations to the Belleview Street building, which included $16.5 million in improvements and another $4.5 million for relocation.Dallas’ municipal government has had issues with data security and storage in recent years as well as being slow to upgrade city technology.
because all station computers weren’t upgraded from Windows 7, which came out in 2009. A city IT employee in 2021 deleted millions of police files, which an