The municipality of Amsterdam has, for the it services 8.8 million to little budgeted for 2012. The amount is one of the ict challenges that Amsterdam suffers and for which the for this year to 19.2 million euro reserve.
There is a funding shortfall of € 8.8 million on ict expenditure. There is, namely, a significant difference between the ICT Department is budgeted decrease and the estimated budgets for services for ict in 2012, the Amsterdam alderman Asscher of Finance and Wiebes of Ict the city council. The exact size of the ‘this misalignment occurs’ has yet to be determined.
The announcement came after questions from the PvdA-fraction over a passage about the mismatch from the letter to “Control costs municipal ICT’, that Asscher and Wiebes at the end of december, the city council sent. From the budget of 2012, it appeared that Amsterdam was an “incidental contribution” of 19.2 million euro because of issues around ict. The discrepancy between the budgets fall below.
In addition, Amsterdam is a bite out of the reserve for the execution plan that the continuing problems around the ict infrastructure, such as system failures and security incidents, must address. Finally, if the church is not the promised savings. “We do, however, expect that the envisaged savings of 21.4 million is eventually realised, but not in 2014”, is in the budget.
Amsterdam wants compared to 2010, an improvement of 5 percent, and for 2014, an improvement of 16 percent in the ict benchmark for Dutch municipalities. Measures that the municipality intends to take include the stabilisation of risky components of the technical infrastructure, better and more direct service to customers, a brake on new projects, improve supervision, and to accelerate the completion of incidents and changes. Last year, the ICT Department of Amsterdam under legal guardianship because of the ongoing problems.
“There is not so much a question of a noose,” says Peter Rich, head of communications at the ICT Department, “In the course of the years, there are certain municipal ict costs in the different organizations diffuse become. Missing, therefore, partly on their budgets, and which amounts, therefore, we must now find.”
The aim of the municipality is to ensure that the costs of expenditure on ict the budget is not going to exceed. Therefore, the measure set that the different organisations, the ict expenditure of the municipality. To see the difference in budgets to eliminate, is not in the ICT Department we, but especially in other organisations, says Rich.
Update 13.00: Response, head of communications at the ICT Department in Amsterdam, Peter Rich, added.