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Commissioner Halkiatis said that he has grown weary of the state providing the County any leadership in anything. He does not share the optimism. Commissioner Brown asked far an overview of how this position would work with the departments. Todd Jones said that now the departments have informally recognized webmasters that update their departmental websites pretty regularly. Each department is very different looking. They hope that this position will put tools in place to update the departmental websites conveniently. They also hope to have better search mechanisms within the site for the citizens. Commissioner Gordon said that one of the things to be noted about the County's website is that the content is hard to understand in some of the departments. Todd Jones said that they have done some analysis of the information to understand how it might be better organized. Chair Jacobs asked about visits to the website and Tadd Janes said that it was around 10,000 a month. Commissioner Brown asked Todd Jones to comment an the system we have now and what we want to do in the next two years. Todd Jones said that we are on the trailing edge for a county our size. He said that there is now an ad hoc set of departmental websites. There are very few mechanisms that cut across different departments. A lot of the medium to larger municipalities are using systems that manage content that allows centralization in the IT department and still allows the individual departments to own their content and make updates. Commissioner Brown asked about the timeline for the project and Todd Jones said that with the new position they would like to get the bulk of the departments on the web within the next year and then the following year the remainder would be added as well as transaction based services. Personnel Request for Human Resources Technician. John Link said that the last time Personnel added a position was ten years ago. The employee base has increased by 40°~ since that time. Personnel Director Elaine Holmes said that this request is about being able to respond to service needs. There are several tiers of services to employees. Commissioner Halkiotis asked how they interface with the mental health reform issues. Elaine Holmes said that she has been working with Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey and OPC Director Tom Maynard to look at how their benefits relate to the County's. It is only at the planning stage. Elaine Holmes said that in order to make this position affordable, she has set aside as offsetting revenue, money that is now in contract personnel services and in temporary personnel services. The net additional cost of the position is now $14,000. Chair Jacobs said that calling this a Human Resources Technician is a dehumanizing term, considering that they are working with people. Public Works Request for a custodian for increased square footage in County government buildings.