City of Ferndale - City Council - Budget Workshop

So as Riley noted, the the cost for communications are coming down simply because they're driven by staffing levels, as well for the general fund, not one of the exciting aspects of, our operations, but I did look, a lot more intently this year at the allocations and spreads of different items. Communications and IT specifically are areas where, I viewed, there needing to be different cost allocations to other funds because we were we were noting that more time or or effort or energy was being spent, not exclusively within the general fund. So cost for our city comms are are down substantially, and that's in line with what we had anticipated through previous conversations when we talked about the the staffing levels and the overall communication strategy plan. Information technology. James, are are you handling this one?

Yeah. Just a couple quick things on IT. So in the last twelve months, they've