This has been a week of meetings with the Executive Management of the County. On Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010, Logan Pratt and I met with the CIO, David Villanueva. Then on Friday, March 5th, 2010, I met with the COO, Nav Gill and Director of Labor Relations, Steve Keil and the CIO again to find out where we stand with the Budget and IT Consolidation.
They told me that with the mid-year budget cuts, that the Board of Supervisors just passed, we only have a Budget shortfall for the new Fiscal year of $130 million rather than $140 million. It still looks like this year is going to be bad but they were hopeful that it was bottoming out and hopefully we will see the Budget increase in the 2011/2012 fiscal year.
They stated that they were not going to do things like they did last year with the COLA and Furloughs. That unless the REO (the Unions) give up their COLA and/or take Furloughs they did not feel that it was right to impose it on DPPA.
The new CEO, Steve Szalay, has not supported the IT Consolidation yet and David said that without Executive Sponsorship he would not pursue it.
On March 11th, 2010, DPPA Board Members are going to get to meet and greet the new CEO, Steve Szalay.
David Villanueva, the CIO, asked me to ask people in Representative Unit 028 to email him at CIO@saccounty.net with their ideas on cost saving.
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