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Joint Technology Committee

Thursday, February 12, 2026·1h 51m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Technology Committee unanimously approved a prioritized list of technology capital construction requests — covering higher education life safety systems, state agency modernization projects, and cash-funded IT replacements — for recommendation to the Joint Budget Committee, with general fund totals reaching $9.8 million and total cash funding of approximately $17.1 million.

Key Actions

·No Bill – UNC Life Safety Technology ModernizationPassed

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Controversies

Whether Pueblo Community College's wireless network request was security-related

The chair initially described the Pueblo Community College request as a security project and acknowledged her mistake when corrected. Mark Baisley pushed back on the chair's self-correction, arguing: 'I don't think you were mistaken. It's just not the highlight of the project but in that middle paragraph on second page of tab R it does talk about the effect for security just in receiving updates it says so yes, we're not mistaken. Cyber security plus they're all connected to the CCCS community system.'

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Notable Quotes

“I do appreciate that we consider the physical safety, security aspects first. It's just like the bottom of Maslow's pyramid. You know, let's take care of the base and then move on up the ladder as we can.”

Mark Baisley, Senator — Baisley offered this framing while the committee was evaluating which higher education technology requests to prioritize, particularly those involving physical security infrastructure such as the CNCC security camera upgrade.

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Votes

Motion by Vice Chair Brianna Titone to recommend the aforementioned list of projects to the JBC for funding in the order in which we saidPassed
Yes (3)Rodriguez, Weinberg, Madam Chair
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TranscriptPreview
Will come to order. Ms. Falco, will you please. Oh, sorry. Mr. Gravy, will you please take the roll? Senators and Representatives Basley excused. Pascal. Here. Rodriguez Excused. Weinberg. Absent. Vice Chair Tatone. I'm here, Madam Chair. Here. All right, we are going to pick up where we left off. I'm anticipating Senator Basley to walk in the door at any moment and the Majority Leader is going to join us online. We went through. Yes, we went through all of the OSPB requests last week and we were going to begin with the higher ed requests. And so I. Miss. Mr. Gray, will you please add Senator Basley to the roll? I would recommend that we start with the very top one and then I'm going to kind of pop us through a few of these, if you would indulge me. So, Ms. Falco, can you direct us on the UNC request, please? Yes. Samantha Falco, Legislative Council staff. University of Northern Colorado Life Safety Technology Modernization that was ranked seventh for OSPB and one for CCHE priority. And that project is asking 1.86 million from capital construction and 120,000 from cash funds. And that will be to update…
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