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Orange County Information Technologies Strategic Plan <br />In order to prevent critical and revenue affecting disruptions <br />to the County's taxation system, the County must implement <br />a modern tax assessment and collections system. Work <br />between the tax offices, Land Records, GIS, Planning and IT <br />is underway. It is critical the County complete this work and <br />implement a new system in 2010. <br />Central Permitting <br />The OCIT department is working with Planning/Inspections, <br />Environmental Health and the Fire Marshal to develop <br />requirements for a system in which all permits relating to a <br />single development activities would be centrally reported and <br />managed. <br />This initiative has potential to greatly streamline the myriad <br />permitting steps that builders currently have to go through. <br />New software would also give the County the opportunity to <br />migrate from a version of permitting software that is no <br />longer current, but highly customized. New software would <br />be able to adhere to our model of application support and <br />sustainability from. which the current system is out of <br />alignment. <br />Cost/Benefit analysis of OCIT <br />The OCIT organization has begun developing processes <br />with Purchasing and Budget departments to establish a <br />broader and consequently, more accurate view of <br />technology expenditures. <br />We will evaluate the costs of technologies in terms of: <br />i. hardware costs <br />ii. software costs <br />iii. maintenance costs <br />iv. training costs <br />v. support costs <br />vi. training costs for users <br />24 <br />Page 23 of 25 12/1/2008 <br />