Management and Performance Review of County Government ...

Assessment of the Finance and Business Functions
RECOMMENDATION 4-11:
Eliminate the Printing department, outsource all printing projects and charge the
cost of printing to user departments.
To be effective and efficient at the printing functions required by the county now
and in the future, the Printing Department would need to purchase additional equipment
and hire additional staff. The annual budget should be closer to $200,000, plus the
purchase of some expensive pieces of printing equipment. Rather than incurring the
additional expenses to grow the printing functions that will serve the county departments
into the future, the Purchasing Agent should outsource all printing functions.
IMPLEMENTATION
The Purchasing Agent should issue an Invitation to Bid for county printing. The
bids should be analyzed to corroborate and quantify savings. Once confirmation of
savings exists, the Purchasing Agent should move to close the in-house printing
operations and eliminate the position.
FISCAL IMPACT
Eliminating the Printing department would result in annual savings of $125,900.
Recommendation 4-11 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-2010
Eliminate the Printing
department
$125,900 $125,900 $125,900 $125,900 $125,900
Management Information Systems
The Management Information System department maintains and supports the
county’s computer equipment, networks, software and data systems. There are 14
employees with a $1,116,315 budget for FY 2004-2005.
The MIS Department is responsible for the following functions:
‣ Programming and Support Services to 28 departments and offices; and
‣ IBM AS/400 and Network Systems Support and Maintenance:
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