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There's a big hubbub in my small town about $60k every 4 years the local government could have avoided by moving the date of local elections to align with natio
by donatj 1y ago
There's a big hubbub in my small town about $60k every 4 years the local government could have avoided by moving the date of local elections to align with national elections that failed by one vote.
I got curious about what our total budget looked like, so I started digging into the towns official budget which is available online. My small town is somehow paying over $70,000 a year for Office 365 seats! Doing the math even at the more expensive government tiers, that's still ~1,000 seats which I can't believe we have anywhere near that many employees.
I'm not close enough to the problem to know if it's practical or not, but it really seems like at the very least we could move the majority of people to LibreOffice and save the town a bit of money.