Department Budget. INFORMATION SYSTEMS Actuals Adopted Requested Recommended

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1 Robert Barnes, Director Information Systems Department Summary Mission Statement The Information Systems Department mission is to provide efficient, secure, consistent, cost effective and reliable communication infrastructures for the Butte County governmental organization that encompasses high-speed digital data, telecommunication, and radio networks. Department Description and Key Issues The Information Systems Department is comprised of two divisions: Information Systems (Network Support, Financial Systems Support, and GIS Development and Support) and Communications (Communications Support and Radio Systems Support). Information Systems provides the wide-area networking (WAN) services for the County as well as support for all radio, data and telecommunications services. Technical services provided include housing/maintaining the wide-area networks, network hardware/logical systems that operate the widearea network, services, secure Internet/Intranet access, data warehousing, document management and centralized housing of departmental electronic assets. In addition, Information Systems provides network engineering, network security, countywide desktop support, centralized GIS services and the housing of the County departmental hardware and operational systems. The communications division of Information Systems provides and maintains the equipment and technologies that serve the voice communications infrastructure. This includes telecommunication equipment and circuits (Centrex), special service circuits (electronic data networking), cellular, voic , and paging systems. In addition, Communications is responsible for all radio and related voice communications for the Butte County public safety and general government radio networks as well as being the E coordinator for the County s Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs). Department Budget INFORMATION SYSTEMS Actuals Adopted Requested Recommended State Revenues 36,571 17,500 30,000 30,000 Charges For Services 3,538,159 2,123,154 2,082,546 2,082,546 Miscellaneous Revenues 5,764 1,000 1,000 1,000 Total Revenues $ 3,580,494 $ 2,141,654 $ 2,113,546 $ 2,113,546 Salaries and Employee Benefits 2,434,033 2,458,613 2,529,983 2,450,509 Services and Supplies 1,646,686 1,596,503 1,798,028 1,700,504 Other Charges 300, Fixed Assets - 357, , ,978 Total Direct Expenditures $ 4,381,026 $ 4,412,591 $ 4,625,989 $ 4,448,991 Other Financing Uses (2,114,873) (1,182,003) (1,391,486) (1,344,486) Total Expenditures $ 2,266,153 $ 3,230,588 $ 3,234,503 $ 3,104,505 Use of GPR/Restricted Fund Balance $ (1,314,341) $ 1,088,934 $ 1,120,957 $ 990, /12 Recommended Use of GPR $ 990, /12 Recommended Use of Restricted Fund Balance $ - 183

2 Robert Barnes, Director Source of Funds (Revenues) Charges for services are the revenues from non-general Fund departments and outside agencies for IS services provided by the Department. General purpose revenue (GPR) is the General Fund contribution to operate the Department. State revenues are associated with management of the 911 system. State 1% Information Systems Department Summary Recommended Source of Funds (Revenues) $3,104,505 Charges for Services 67% GPR 32% Misc. <1% Use of Funds (Expenditures) Salaries and benefits is the largest expenditure category for the Department. Services and supplies include contracts for various communication projects. They also include office supplies, training, communications charges, equipment leases, and maintenance of equipment. Other financing uses, which appear as a negative percentage in the graph, are reimbursements from other General Fund departments for services provided by the Department. Services and Supplies 30% Recommended Use of Funds (Expenditures) $3,104,505 Salaries and Benefits 42% Fixed Assets 5% Other Financing Uses -23% Summary of Budget Request and Recommendation Salaries & Employee Benefits Requested The department budget request includes funding for fiscal year staffing levels. The department budget request includes the restoration of one of the four positions lost due to the budget cuts in the fiscal year Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Positions Adopted Position Allocation Adopted Position Allocation Adopted Position Allocation Adopted Position Allocation Current Position Allocation* Recommended Position Allocation *As of 4/12/ budget. The position of Information Systems Technician, Senior would be responsible for support requests for County desktop, network, and other technical systems. 184

3 Robert Barnes, Director Information Systems Department Summary Recommended The recommendation includes funding for fiscal year staffing levels. The recommendation does not include the restoration of an Information Systems Technician, Senior. Services & Supplies Requested The department budget request includes funding to maintain fiscal year operational levels. The department budget request includes funding to support the build-out of the new Bloomer Mountain radio/microwave site. The build-out requires professional project management, engineering and construction at the new site. The Bloomer Mountain site will allow for the expansion of radio and data coverage for public protection agencies, general government agencies and E9-1-1 that currently does not exist. Recommended The recommendation includes the requested services and supplies. Fixed Assets Requested The department budget request includes fixed asset purchases from the ISF Equipment Replacement Fund. The department budget request includes funding for: Recommended o licensing to update the Network infrastructure to Active Directory 2008 so as to support technologies at County Departments; o replacing the enterprise messaging system (Exchange) to current technology levels as the existing system is approaching end of life; o replacing aging radio comparators that do not comply with FCC narrow banding requirements; o replacing the CLEMARS public safety radio system to comply with FCC narrow banding requirements; o replacing the enterprise data backup system to comply with long-term electronic data storage requirements; o replacing the enterprise firewall system to handle increasing bandwidth demands of the County; and o replacing a 17-year old vehicle used to support the County information systems and communications environment. The recommendation includes the requested fixed assets. 185

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