El Dorado County Grand Jury
• 2016-2017
El Dorado County Legacy Application Migration and Mainframe Decommissioning Success(PDF, 1004kb)
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Findings 6 findings
F1
Absent an IT strategic plan, supported by the BOS and senior leadership of EDC, the IT department lacks solid direction and the ability to manage projects to successful completion.
F2
EDC has a complex IT operating environment, created by using multiple platforms (software and hardware), that requires diverse IT skills sets and is expensive to maintain.
F3
Having the IT functions decentralized provided an uncoordinated leadership that has created complexity, the risk to operations and increased operating costs.
F4
The lack of a single senior, professional, Chief Information Officer (CIO) with county-wide IT responsibility has created an environment where department heads set policy and direction at odds with county-wide priorities and needs.
F5
The lack of support from various departments for the IT migration project creates roadblocks to IT’s success.
F6
Elected Officials functioning as Departments Directors that are not accountable to the BOS or CAO cannot be required to comply with the demands of the application migration. Mainframe Decommissioning Success Challenged by EDC Organization and Management
Recommendations 4
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R1The BOS should require IT, in coordination with the CAO (aligned with the EDC Strategic Plan) to develop a five-year IT Strategic Plan that is approved by the Board.
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R2The five-year strategic plan should provide for the consolidation of a fully integrated, countywide, IT Organization that can achieve all the goals and objectives of the five-year Strategic Plan.
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R3The BOS should make the IT Director (CIO) position, reporting to the CAO, responsible for countywide IT and the consolidation of the fragmented IT functions under one centralized county IT Department.
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R4To the maximum extent allowed by state law the BOS should grant the CAO the authority over all EDC operating departments, either through amendment of the El Dorado County Charter or via the Board’s own budget allocations. To ensure the cooperation and full participation of all departments with the five-year Strategic Plan. Mainframe Decommissioning Success Challenged by EDC Organization and Management