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Deval Patrick, the Commonwealth's new governor, yesterday introduced a $1.47 billion "emergency" bonding bill, intended to cover a broad range of local and statewide projects, including a measure of funding for upgrading the state's IT infrastructure. This is the funding that State CIOs Peter Quinn and Louis Gutierrez resigned over - and that the legislature failed to provide last year. But the new bill would only restore a fraction of what is needed.
Unfortunately for the Information Technology Division (ITD) in particular, and state government in general, Governor Patrick is offering only $95 million, rather than the $250 million in the old bond bill. As a result, it the new bill will fall far short of accomplishing what had long been hoped by the ITD. Will both Quinn and Gutierrez prove to have resigned in vain?
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