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I Commissioner Dorosin said he is concerned about the dwindling number of fair housing 2 cases initiated. He said this is shown on page 322. He is suspicious that the County may not 3 be doing a good enough job of letting people know about the fair housing enforcement 4 capabilities available 5 James Davis said there had been some turnover during that time, and less outreach 6 was done. He said there are 7 or 8 cases being closed out this year, and the number has 7 actually been increasing over the past two years. 8 Chair Jacobs asked if James Davis felt like they were aggressively doing outreach to the 9 community. 10 James Davis said yes. 11 Commissioner Price said when people are rejected for housing, they often don't report 12 it. 13 Commissioner Dorosin said they need to do a better job of getting this information out to 14 the public. 15 Commissioner Dorosin asked about the status of the permanent position. 16 Michael Talbert said this was being left as is until the new manager is on board. 17 18 • Information Technologies, Pg. 329 19 Chair Jacobs noted a white copy of the agenda abstract at the Commissioner's places in 20 preparation for the June 17th meeting. 21 Darryl Butts said the operating budget has a net increase of $394,000 for 2014 -15. He 22 said the two driving factors including 5 new FTE's approved as part of the IT strategic plan. He 23 said the other increases were in contract services. 24 Jim Northup said IT is in the process of hiring two of the six positions, and interviews are 25 happening this week. He said service to Emergency Services has been increased, and IT is 26 reaching out to other departments. He said full funding for all six positions is included in this 27 year's budget. 28 Jim Northup noted the salmon colored sheet that outlines the AV upgrades to the 29 Southern Human Services Center, and he reviewed these upgrades. He said staff would like to 30 take the existing budget, as well as another $50,000 from the Board reserve, to total $130,000 31 for making necessary repairs and bringing the room up to the same specifications as the 32 Whitted Building. 33 Paul Laughton said the IT Capital Project has put $50,000 into Board reserves for the 34 past two years. He said only $18,000 of the $100,000 has been spent. He said this is where 35 the $82,000 balance comes from, and the additional $50,000 would come from the approval of 36 the CIP for next year's IT funding. He said the use of this would pretty much deplete the 37 reserve for IT Capital. 38 Jim Northup referred to the draft agenda item for June 17, regarding virtual desktop 39 computers. He said a virtual desktop environment is a framework in which older, less powerful 40 computers can connect to a more powerful server that can serve out more powerful desktops. 41 He said this is the way the industry is going, and it saves on labor and stretches the hardware 42 out longer. He said it also allows for home access. 43 Commissioner Price asked if there will be traffic jams on the shared network. 44 Jim Northup said extra bandwidth has been added and high traffic times have been 45 prepared for. 46 Commissioner McKee asked if information will be stored in house or in a cloud. 47 Jim Northup said all storage will be in house. 48 49 Library Services, Pg. 332 (including Fee Schedule change request, Pg. 487 and 50 Non - Departmental items, Pg. 362)