Department: Management and Budget
Department Head/Elected Official: Daniel Ramos, Executive Director
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Commercial Paper
Project ID (if applicable): TBD
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request for approval of commercial paper funding for Universal Services for the JWEB Modernization project in the initial amount of $1,500,000.
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Background and Discussion:
Commercial Paper Series D can be used for (1) construction of public works, (2) the purchase of automobiles, equipment and machinery, including computers, materials and supplies for the operation of the County’s precincts and departments (3) Professional services, including services provided by engineers, architects, attorneys, auditors, financial advisors, and fiscal agents, in connection with the contractual obligations described in (1) and (2).
Commercial Paper is being requested for the JWEB Modernization project and is expected to be repaid within the next three fiscal years either through bonds, budgetary means, or pay-as-you-go sources. This is for approval for allocation of commercial paper for a previously approved project within the previously authorized amount.
HB 1869 compliance confirmed by: Paige Abernathy, Assistant County Attorney, October 15, 2024.
Expected Impact:
The modernization of these applications is critical to ensure continuity of county’s public safety and other justice related services. The upgraded applications also ensure Harris County departments and end-users do not have to work with unsupported technology or out-of-date processes, which would be more susceptible to failure and vulnerable to cyberattacks.
The new utilized applications will also reduce overhead costs required to support the current applications, due to the complex architecture of the current application.
The effort will provide the following benefits - access to a wide pool of resources for design and development support, enable configuration management to more easily test and deploy code, enhancements will be easier to configure and implement in the newer environment, enable the team to clean up some of the current JIMS2 backlog, create a computing environment that is more reliable and “fault tolerant” than the current environment.
Alternative Options:
If this project is not funded, we will continue to see increase in application outages, maintenance costs, and potential exposure to increased security risks, impacts to customer functionality, and impacts to public safety and other justice related services to Harris County.
Alignment with Goal(s):
X Justice and Safety
_ Economic Opportunity
_ Housing
_ Public Health
_ Transportation
_ Flooding
_ Environment
X Governance and Customer Service
Prior Court Action (if any):
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8/27/2024 |
24-5467 |
PIM authorized in the amount of $1,500,000 |
Location:
Address (if applicable): Multiple
Precinct(s): Countywide
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Note: Commercial Paper is issued in increments of $5,000, and the excess is not available to be spent by the department.
Anticipated Court Date: October 29, 2024
Anticipated Implementation Date (if different from Court date):
Emergency/Disaster Recovery Note: Not an emergency, disaster, or COVID-19 related item
Contact(s) name, title, department: Amy Perez, Deputy Executive Director, Office of Management and Budget
Attachments (if applicable): N/A