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Fiscal Year 2004 Proposed Budget

Section C - General Government
Department of Technology Services

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DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION

PROGRAM MISSION: To ensure reliable performance and availability of critical County enterprise information and automated business processes.

The Information Services Office is responsible for the technology support of the primary (enterprise) budget, assessment, revenue collection, accounts receivable, accounts payable, financial, and payroll applications of the Arlington County Government. The Office is charged with transforming from a mainframe application support group to a web development support group which includes developing the interfaces to legacy applications for the web-based portals called for in the E-Government Master Plan and assisting the County's agencies in developing their own Intranet.


Information Services Division

FY 2002 FY 2003 FY 2004 % Change:
Actual Adopted Proposed '03 to '04
Personnel $828,817 $901,406 $925,355 3%
Non-Personnel 867,689 439,234 439,234 -
Subtotal 1,696,506 1,340,640 1,364,589 2%
Intra-County Charges - - - -
Total Expenditures 1,696,506 1,340,640 1,364,589 2%
Revenues - - - -
Net Tax Support $1,696,506 $1,340,640 $1,364,589 2%
Authorized FTEs 10.5 10.5 10.5
Funded FTEs 10.5 10.5 10.5


SIGNIFICANT BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS:

  • No significant changes


PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

Objective: To ensure the reliable performance and availability of critical County enterprise information and automated business processes.


FY 2001
Actual
FY 2002
Actual
FY 2003
Estimate
FY 2004
Estimate
FY 2004
Target
Mission Outcome Measures
Number of hours supporting mainframe legacy applications N/A N/A 6,200 5,900 5,850

Number of legacy applications migrated off mainframe
N/A N/A 1 2 2

Number of County department Intranets designed
N/A N/A 2 2 4


FUTURE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS:

  • Expansion of the Countywide Intranet applications portfolio to provide enhanced capabilities to County's employees. This should result in improved efficiency and performance in the delivery of County services.
  • Implementation of migration of legacy applications to web-enabled client/server environment to support payment portal, integrated Accounts Receivable, HR/Payroll, Procurement, Accounts Payable (ERP—Enterprise Resource Planning) and other enterprise initiatives.
  • Institution of redefined business processes that will result in improved efficiencies and productivity to permit Arlington County's residents to realize the benefits proposed and approved in the e-government Master plan.
  • Implementation of required system modifications to accommodate HIPPA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act).
  • Implementation of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for County's Enterprise Information Systems.
  • Implementation of Citizen's Information Portal, Employee Portal and other portals specified in the E-government master plan.
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