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14 <br />• Creating a policy making tool for public officials, and enhancing managerial <br />decision - making. <br />The model should: <br />• Explore existing program and trend analysis models. <br />• Identify relevant indicators. <br />• Systematically track spending trends in every area of government. <br />• Analyze data. <br />• Monitor for long -term data analysis (trends). <br />• Systematically report data analysis. <br />Recommendation 6: Develop and implement incentive programs which provide <br />organizational incentives to departments for cost saving and <br />efficiency. <br />In this, the County should consider more budgetary flexibility including the option of allowing <br />a department to retain and accumulate from year to year a percentage of any cost savings for <br />its use on a one time, non- recurring basis in supporting other department objectives and <br />priorities. <br />Recommendation 7: Develop and implement enhanced incentives for individual employees <br />to promote cost savings and efficiency. <br />Include further enhancing individual employee incentives as part of the planned evaluation <br />process of the two year pilot employee incentives programs already in place which are directed <br />at cost saving employee suggestions and team achievements. <br />Recommendation 8: Develop and implement a written County Strategic Automation Plan <br />as a blueprint for the County's automation enhancements over the <br />next three to five years. <br />Much like the County's Capital Improvements Plan, the Automation Plan would be formally <br />reviewed and updated on an annual basis to ensure that the plan addresses the County's <br />automation needs. Annual review, combined with periodic informal review, would make the <br />plan dynamic and current, and position the County to take advantage of emerging technologies. <br />The Automation Plan would enable any reader - whether elected official, County staff, or <br />individual citizen - to have ready access to, and easily understand, the County's strategic <br />direction for automation. The Automation Plan would be developed and implemented within <br />7 <br />