Joint Technology Committee

Thursday, February 5, 2026·51m·▶ Watch / Listen

Key Actions

·State Equalization School Modernization Finance Project (Dept. of Education)No Vote

+ 11 more actions

Controversies

Accuracy and honesty of IT project cost estimates

Representative [UNCLEAR SPELLING — 'Tatone'] stated on the record that he does not 'believe that any of the prices for any of these projects that we ever have are really honest costs' and noted he tried to run a bill last year to rein in costs. The Chair acknowledged the concern but stated 'when we do the approvals before the RFPs, for us, it is an estimate,' indicating a different framing of the same problem.

+ 2 more controversies

Notable Quotes

“It doesn't look to me like it's a study. It looks like a planning phase and the thing is when you come up with numbers before you've planned they're pretty serious swag. So one of the things that we might want to consider that I've seen done in industry is that numbers come with like some kind of a label as to what level of estimate it is and numbers that you're before you even plan your numbers are low confidence and then as you go through planning your numbers go with in higher confidence and this is a low confidence number.”
Representative Amy Paschal — Responding to concerns about the DPA HR system's precise total cost figure, offering an industry framing for communicating estimate confidence levels to the committee.

+ 2 more quotes

Unlock the full summary

Subscribe to see all key actions, controversies, quotes, and what's next.

TranscriptPreview

You please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Basley present. Pascal here. Rodriguez excused. Weinberg excused. To tone. I am here, Madam Chair. Here. Thank you all for joining us today. We are ever getting ever so close close to having to make a prioritization list for jvc. And so we've had a couple of folks come back with lowering of their requests and for that we're incredibly thankful. So we've got some folks here today from the Department of Education and I would just welcome the presenters to the dais, if you could. Oh, okay. I was like, that's me. Wonderful. And we've got. I'm not sure who wants to start, but okay, Mr. Evans. Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you members of the committee for having us here this morning. We greatly appreciate it. My name is Corey Evans. I'm the school Finance Executive Director for the Department of Education. I'm joined today by Mr. Sheldon Rosenkranz, who is our chief district operating officer. We have just a brief overview we'd love to run you through of the system and the updated request. And then we are happy to take any questions from the committee. That sounds…

Subscribe to unlock the full transcript, summary, and search across all Colorado committee hearings.