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Trxas Scorecard by Adam Cahn February 11, 2021
The city council can’t seem to stop wasting citizens’ money.
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Beleaguered Austin taxpayers just received an expensive lesson in the folly of trying to “fix†that which isn’t broken.
According to a flabbergasting—though unsurprising—report from Austin’s KXAN station, the city recently “decommissioned†a new website after years of work and spending more than $3 million on its development. A similar project in Houston, by contrast, cost one-tenth that amount.
Of the $3 million, the largest line item was more than $2 million and vaguely defined as “training and consulting.†As Frank Sinatra would say, “Nice work if you can get it.â€
This is not the first time the City of Austin’s information technology practices have raised serious questions. A Russian hack of the city last year left Texans statewide vulnerable, due to systems the state shares with Austin. This time, the “only†victim appears to have been taxpayers’ wallets.
More: https://texasscorecard.com/local/austin-decommissions-new-city-website-3-million-later/ (https://texasscorecard.com/local/austin-decommissions-new-city-website-3-million-later/)