Fiscal Year 2013 Recommended Budget Book - Lake County

Information Technology• The Geographic Information Services Division strives to integrate old business processes and workflows with newtechnology in the form of web-based interactive maps allowing staff to monitor projects, analyze trends, and anticipateopportunities. It is our goal to put interactive mapping in the hands of all staff that need it, making the county a leader inGIS technology and offering easy access to accurate and reliable data. The training of current staff combined with an ongoingmentorship program will be critical to meeting these objectives. It will also require a desire/commitment byindividual departments to take advantage of the opportunities offered by GIS, and their active participation. It isanticipated to have 13 interactive web maps available to a variety of county offices, including two mobile mappingapplications. GIS is committed to be actively involved in each department’s business process to continually offer newand innovative ways to visualize, understand, and communicate spatial data. GIS will meet periodically with eachdepartment to better understand their processes and to look for ways to improve and enhance these processes throughGIS integration. It will require a close partnership with other departments for low-level data maintenance, freeing up GISstaff to perform high-level mapping and complex data analysis. It is anticipated that the number of GIS project requestswill increase by approximately 25 percent during Fiscal Year 2013.Lake County is a Leader in Multi-jurisdictional Cooperation:• PASS provides support to other county agencies such as the Sheriff and Lake Emergency Medical Services (LEMS). TheDivision will continue to work with GIS to simplify the Spillman and Zoll computer-aided design (CAD) systems updateprocess. The only resource required is staff time. This process should significantly lessen the time it takes to import andmanipulate the necessary GIS data into each CAD system.Lake County Preserves Environmental Resources:• The Information Systems Division has taken great strides to reduce the footprint of the data center by reducing thenumber of physical servers. The focus now shifts to desktops and the implementation of alternative devices that areeasier to manage and more eco-friendly. With the proper infrastructure existing in the data center, Information Systemsis now able to rollout up to twenty five Pano cube devices to replace traditional desktop computers. No additionalequipment is needed for this project. Distribution of Pano devices will begin in late 2012. It is anticipated that twentyfive desktops can be replaced with Pano devices during Fiscal Year 2013.F - 91