The council adopted a resolution on May 12, 2026 authorizing the mayor to declare various Information Technology Department assets as surplus and to sell or dispose of them. The surplus list includes dozens of HP ProDesk/ProBook systems, Microsoft Surfaces, Panasonic Toughbooks, networking gear (AdTran, HP ProCurve, Brocade, Cisco, Aruba), UPS units, and multiple Apple iPads and MacBook hardware marked as “Refresh,” “EOL,” “Broken,” or “Water Damage.” While the resolution itself addresses disposal, the volume and type of equipment flagged as “Refresh” strongly signal that the city is in the midst of a significant endpoint and network refresh cycle. Hardware, software, and IT services vendors can infer an active modernization effort and the likelihood of recent or imminent purchases of replacement desktops, laptops, rugged devices, network switches, wireless gear, and AV equipment, along with potential needs for deployment services, imaging, security tools, and ongoing support.

The presence of water-damaged networking and UPS equipment suggests recent incident-driven replaceme...