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COMMISSIONERS' OBJECTIVES and INTERNAL COUNTY OPERATIONS <br />Strategic Focus Area: Efficiency Improvements & Cost Savings; Risk and Liability Management <br />✓ Increase productivity & efficiency <br />✓ Ease inter - departmental <br />communication <br />✓ Reduce long term costs <br />✓ Ensure stewardship of city resources <br />W <br />• <br />Reduce ris s and Tines <br />• <br />Avoid penalties of non - compliance <br />✓ <br />Provide strong user security <br />✓ <br />Maintenance of software assets <br />✓ <br />Maintain current releases and system <br />sustainability <br />Priority One Initiatives focused by Commissioners' Objectives: <br />26 <br />Ensure a <br />Promote an <br />Stimulate <br />Invest in <br />Create, <br />Ensure a <br />community <br />interactive <br />planning and <br />quality <br />preserve, and <br />high <br />network of basic <br />& <br />economic <br />County <br />protect <br />quality of <br />human services <br />transparent <br />development <br />facilities, a <br />sustainable <br />life and <br />and <br />system of <br />efforts, <br />diverse <br />natural <br />lifelong <br />infrastructure <br />governance <br />maintain <br />work force, <br />environment <br />learning <br />balanced local <br />and <br />economy <br />technology <br />Increase IT Staffing Levels: <br />additional IT staff are needed <br />to deploy and maintain the <br />desired projects articulated by <br />the BOCC and the County <br />departments <br />IT Governance Council: ensure <br />that IT is aligned with the <br />business and delivers value, its <br />performance is measured, its <br />resources properly allocated <br />and its risks mitigated <br />Communication Process <br />Improvements: improve <br />communications between IT <br />department and other <br />departments through multiple <br />channels, including regular <br />meetings with department <br />heads and user meetings <br />Training for County Staff: <br />ensure adequate training <br />(funding for training) for <br />County staff for all major IT <br />purchases (software) <br />26 <br />