2008 Budget Book - Kitsap County Government

Internal Service Funds
Information Services
Purpose:
Information Services applies technology resources to meet the County’s business needs. We use our
experience, knowledge, and innovative solutions to make the County a leader in practical, cost-effective,
automated systems.
• Design, implement and maintain commercially acquired applications.
• Design, implement, and support locally written scripts that pass data from one vendor application to
another and that provide customized processing from our commercial applications.
• Provide centralized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) support to all County departments and
other municipalities and public service agencies as well as assist them in developing new GIS uses.
• Manage the data structure for all applications. Protect the content and availability of County data.
• Acquire, configure, install, maintain, and support central/host server platforms and data
communication networks for County as well as other municipalities and public service agencies.
• Design, implement, maintain, and support Voice/Voice Mail and video communications systems for
County Departments as well as other municipalities and public service agencies.
• Provide user administration and support of microcomputer desktops, laptops, printer, and other
electronic/mobile computing devices.
• Secure County computers and communication networks from overt or accidental breaches.
• Provide and support an up-to-date computer-training lab for all county groups.
2007 Accomplishments:
• Disaster Recovery/Business Resumption Assessment and Planning Document completed. This
effort included a full review of all County services supported by technology and created road-map
of priorities and approach.
• Geographical Information Services (GIS) Architecture Assessment completed. County
Departments and Regional Public Service Agencies continue to increase their need and us of
GIS capabilities. This effort helped to ensure the County is using a package of systems and
utilities that is cost effectively meeting the needs today and into the future.
• GIS Imagery Acquisition complete: The County GIS lead an eleven agency effort to acquire the
latest six and twelve inch Ortho-Photography images through WA-State Dept. of Transportation.
The collaboration effort saved the participating agencies, and ultimately the taxpayers, several
hundred thousand dollars. Half of the images were delivered in 2007, the other half are
scheduled for delivery in the first-quarter of 2008.
• Initiated the Virtual Server Project: This process allows consolidating multiple services onto one
physical server, thus reducing many costs associated with Data Center Operation, to include
electrical and cooling. Of the 115 Servers in operation, 20 have been “virtualized” to-date.
• Initiated Regional Situs Addressing Project: Public Safety First Responders (Law Enforcement,
Fire, and Emergency Medical Service) are dependent on accurate addresses. Each of the
multiple local government agencies (cities, tribes, county) occasionally have varying methods of
assigning or changing addresses. This effort requires both a collaborative work flow as well as a
centralized data base architecture.
• Local Update Census Addressing, 2010: This Federal mandate project has been started. A
majority of the effort to complete this project is parallel to the Situs Addressing Project. For
efficiency sake this project is moving forward in conjunction with Situs Addressing and in
collaboration with the cities.
• Community Oriented Policing (COPs) Grant: Supported the data gathering and application for
the First Responder Grant that was based on collaboration with Law Enforcement and Fire across
the entire county. The 3.6 Million Grant was awarded and initial planning is underway. Major
elements of the grant project include purchase of Mobile Data Terminals (Tablet PC’s), multifaceted
network connectivity (3G-Cell/EVDO, Wi-Fi, and Fiber Broadband), Electronic Ticketing
(eliminate manual ticket processing from the officer, through the courts, to the state), and a
Law/Fire collaborative GIS data base.
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