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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator n=}ra
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December 9, 1987 CWIQ
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SUBJECT: APPROPRIATIONS OF M.I .S. FUNDS
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) .OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Accept the report of the Information Systems Steering Committee
recommending Board approval of allocations, from the Management Information
System Fund for data processing equipment purchases and , services during
fiscal year 1987-88 in the amount of $544,357 to County departments.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Total allocations of $544 ,357 are to be approved. The total appropriation
to the Management Information Systems Fund, in Budget Unit 0025, was
$560 ,000 for fiscal year 1987-88 .
REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATION/BACKGROUND:
The Board established a Management Information System Fund in fiscal year
1985-86 to address the critical needs of automation. The Administrator Is
office was .directed to evaluate the departmental needs and recommend
projects to the Board of Supervisors.
An Information System Committee composed of County Department Heads, was
established in 1985 to consider how best to utilize the limited monies
available for the M.I.S. Fund. The Committee requested that each
department submit proposals which address their needs in order of priority.
These proposals were evaluated by CAO and Data Processing staff as well as
a special subcommittee and consensus recommendations were developed.
The Committee endorsed the subcommittee decisions and recommended to the
County Administrator that the monies available in the M.I .S. Fund in this
fiscal year be used to address the critical office automation needs of
County departments. The County Administrator approved the recommendation.
The Committee further recommended that:
♦ The M.I .S. Fund should not be seen as sole source for County Data
Processing needs. Multi-department ' and Countywide needs should
be supported by the Board from other funding sources. Future
individual requests to the fund should be limited to less than
$100 , 000.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YESSIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BO C M TTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATUREIS I: _
ACTION OF BOARD ON December 15. 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT' r ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN,
cc: Auditor-Controller ATTESTED _ t.� ,Lisp /S� /9,f7
Health Services PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Data Processing SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Purchasing
County Administrator
. BY ,
M382/7-83 DEPUTY—
December 9, 1987
♦ A survey of departments and review be made of the 1987-88
process, with discussion on establishing new policies for
1988-89. This process should lead to a report to the Board
during the last quarter of fiscal year 1987-88.
This year County departments submitted 62 separate program requests
totaling nearly $3. 2 million in requested funding. After meeting over a
three month period, the Information System Subcommittee with assistance
from staff of the CAO, decisions and recommendations were made to fund 30
various programs for use by 16 County departments. Equipment to be
purchased for the programs, will be broken into the following major
categories:
- 71 Personal Computers
- 66 Printers
- 12 Terminals
Additional specialized hardware items and various software purchases which
will be modified according to specific County department configurations,
completes the allocations of the fund monies.
Monitoring of the purchase process is planned by the Information System
Subcommittee, with a status report scheduled for presentation to the Board
during the last quarter of fiscal year 1987-88.
CONSEQUENCES OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If the Board does not approve the purchase of the data processing equipment
and services, inefficient and less effective systems for data manipulation
will continue to exist. Therefore, County departments operations will be
less able to meet the demands of service delivery with the same or reduced
resource levels.