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March & April 2012 Page 2 March & April 2012 Elected Executive Board

Rick Bareuther James C. Buston Clark Rainer President 3rd Vice President International Director Richland County, S.C. City of Auburn Henry County Voice (742) 7417 144 Tichenor Ave 140 Henry Parkway [email protected] Auburn, AL 36830 McDonough, GA 30253 Voice (334)501-7200 Phone: 770 288-6841 Paul Ruth [email protected] FAX: 7709542922 1st Vice President Brian Kelley [email protected] Cobb County 4th Vice President

100 Cherokee Street, Suite 520 Portage County Marietta, GA 30090 Johnny A. Walton 449 S. Meridian St Voice (770) 528-8700 Executive Director [email protected] Ravenna, OH 44266 Aiken County Voice (330) 297-3588 828 Richland Ave. W Janet Claggett Fax: (330)298-3949 Aiken, SC 29801 Voice (803) 642-1593 2ndVice President [email protected] Richland County Fax (803) 502-1825 2020 Hampton Street [email protected] Suite 3030 Lori-Ann Fox Columbia, SC 29204 Membership Development Sherri Flynn [email protected]. City of East Providence Treasurer 145 Taunton Ave. City of Sparks East Providence, RI 02915 P.O. Box 857 Voice (401) 435-1948 Sparks, NV 89432 [email protected] Voice (775) 353-2352 [email protected]

Appointed By Board Advisory Council Members

Name Position Agency State Voting Member Conference Chair John Burns CIO City of Woodstock IL Sam Ferguson Gray Cassell Director of IS Town of Kernersville NC Village of Schaumburg Stephan Dawe CTO City of Opelika AL 101 Schaumburg Ct. Jonathan Feldman Director, IT Services City of Asheville NC Schaumburg, IL 60193- Chris Fisher Director of IT City of Conyers GA 1899 David Freeman IT Director Limestone County AL Voice (847) 923-4548 sfergu- Bill Haight CIO UT [email protected] Justin Heyman IT Specialist Franklin Township NJ Elaine Isler Help Desk Manager City of Mobile AL Non-Voting Member Aaron Kostyu Director of Technology Lowndes County GA GEM Editor Jim Lawson IT Director Douglas County KS Elaine Dickey Isler Glen Liljeberg IT Manager City of Westmont IL PO Box 1827 Diane Nelson IT Director City of Park Ridge IL Mobile, AL 36633 Rob Petty CIO City of Novi MI Voice (251) 208-7174 Dan Putnam IS Director City of Livonia MI Fax (251) 208-7178 Dan Rainey Director IT City of Ann Arbor MI [email protected] Scott Roberts Director Town of South Windsor CT Nick Roethel IT Director City of New Berlin WI Non-Voting Member Alan Rogers IT Manager State Dept. of Personnel NV Executive Secretary Gustavo Roman Director of IT City of Bryan TX CMP Management Eugene Rudy Network Administrator City of St. Mary's GA PO Box 27923 Wendy Schmidle IT Manager Town of East Greenwich RI Austin, TX 78755 Larry Schroth Director of IT Village of Palatine IL Voice (512) 220-1497 Ashley Smith IT and Comm. Manager City of Hapeville GA Fax (512) 857-7711 Doug Townsend Director Technology Services City of Medford OR www.gmis.org Peter Wallace CIO Chesapeake VA

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Table of Contents President’s Message 4 Top 25 8 GMIS Awards 9 More About GMIS Awards 11 Conference Update 13 Chapter Roll Call 14 Sister Organizations 16 Last Word 17

State Chapter Presidents Each State Chapter has its own By- Kansas laws governing the election of State Bill Bauer Phil Svesnik Officers. This is a list of the most Coffey County County of Westmoreland current State Chapter Presidents: 620-364-3609 724-830-3870

Alabama Becki Goggins Steve Sedore Lori-Ann Fox State of Alabama Alegan County City of East Providence 334-517-2451 269-673-0470 401-435-1948

Connecticut Jack McCoy Nevada Daniel Johnson Steve Collins City of Manchester City of Reno Richland County 806-647-9071 775-334-2301 803-576-2033

Georgia Kelvin Joiner Justin Heyman Kevin Perry City of Fayetteville 770-719-4043 Frankllin Township State of Utah Cio’s Office 732-873-2500 801-977-6881 Illinois Glen Liljeberg Village of Westmont Bruce Stice David Noel 630-981-6241 Town of Cary County of Stafford 919-469-4027 540-658-4573

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GMIS International President’s Message

Rick Bareuther

GMIS THEN cies to exchange Information Technology best practices that enhance the delivery of AND NOW… government services. Written by Rick Bareuther How GMIS provided that forum back in 1986 was through the GEM, the annual con- As I think about our upcoming conference ference and the annual survey. Listservs in Chicago, I look back to my first experi- and forums weren’t to come along for a few ences with GMIS. In 1986, I had started a more years. For those that haven’t heard of new job as the Data Processing Manager for the annual survey, it was a fairly lengthy the City of Sparks. I had the good fortune paper-based summary of the hardware and of a great professional relationship with the software used by each member agency. The prior Manager in another association. A hardware was few weeks be- often a main- fore starting frame or possi- this new job, bly a mini he advised me computer. The to get active in software was GMIS. His usually coded specific words in COBOL. A were that month or so “GMIS can be after starting really valuable my new posi- to you.” As I tion, I updated am now in my the survey for Sparks. At the time, most twenty-sixth year in GMIS, I can say with- agencies designed and authored their own out a doubt that his advice was spot on. software. The survey identified the software The stated mission of GMIS International is to provide a forum for public sector agen- Continued on page 5... Page 5 GMIS International

President’s Message… Strausburgh, Sut- Continued from page 4... ton and Canney to applications in use at name a few. agencies and whether the responding agen- The sharing of ex- cies were willing to periences and “share” the software knowledge with with other GMIS my colleagues in members. Many of GMIS – locally, the systems I worked statewide, nation- on as a programmer ally and interna- had originally come tionally, has been from other cities. The invaluable to my survey was a valuable career. This is tool for many GMIS what GMIS is all members. With the Old GMIS Logos about. I urge all of move to packaged you to take advan- software, it’s time tage of what GMIS passed as agencies no can do for you. longer had in-house The means we use software systems to to share best prac- share. tices may change over the years, but My second introduc- we still do our best tion to GMIS was the to share what 1988 annual confer- works. ence in Reno. A col- league, the MIS Direc- You owe it to tor from Washoe yourself and your County, was very ac- career to build tive in GMIS and your knowledge asked if Sparks would base and your net- be willing to help host. It was the first work with your fellow IT colleagues. Be GMIS conference ever held in a casino envi- creative with your budget and be in Chicago ronment and had one of the biggest atten- August 19-22, 2012 at the GMIS Annual dances to that point in time. Working the Conference. It will definitely be worth your conference was a terrific experience and I while! got to meet some of the great names of GMIS-past – Humphries, Strickland, Fry, Page 6 March & April 2012

Government Technology and Center for Digital Government Announcing Winners of Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers of 2012

Government Technology has awarded this honor to nearly 300 individuals over the last 10 years. See how these winners are chosen, the past winners and video profiles on govtech.com

Government Technology’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of 2012: SACRAMENTO, Calif. – March 1, 2012 – Government Technology maga- Chicago’s Digital Trio zine and the Center for Digital Govern-  Brett Goldstein, ment announced today the “Top 25 Do- Chief Data Officer, Chicago, Ill. ers, Dreamers and Drivers” of 2012.  Kevin Hauswirth,

Social Media Director, Chicago, Ill. Saving $14 Million dollars for students, scholarships and faculty with open  John Tolva, source software, spearheading a city- CTO, Chicago, Ill. wide broadband project that delivers ultra-fast Internet connections, creating  Dick Clark, a real-time crime center and facial rec- CIO, ognition technology for the nation’s  Debbie Conway, largest police force and leading a Recorder, Clark County, Nev. multi-state cloud computing initiative  Larry Godwin, are just some of the reasons why Gov- Deputy Commissioner, ernment Technology chose this year’s Dept. of Safety and Homeland Security Top 25 winners.  Dale Jablonsky, Asst. Executive Officer Information These visionaries are being recognized Technology Services Branch, CalPERS in the March issue of Government Tech-  Brian Kelley, nology and on govtech.com for setting CIO, Portage County, OH the standard on how technology is used  Bill Lindner, to improve government performance Director, Center for Academic & Pro- and strengthen citizen services. Continued on page 7...

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Top 25...Continued from page 6...  fessional Development, State  Stanley Stewart, Univ. Deputy Chief of Staff for Eligibility Inte-  Ron Littlefield, gration, Health and Human Ser- Mayor, Chattanooga, Tenn. vices Commission  Greg Wass, ’s Dynamic Duo CIO, Cook County, Ill.   Nancy Olson, Flint Waters, CIO, Wyoming CIO, Milwaukee, Wis.  Brad Wheeler,  Laurie Panella, CIO and Vice President of IT, Interim CIO, Milwaukee County, Wis. University

 Christopher Mitchell, Organizations: Director, Institute for Local Self- Reliance’s Telecommunications as Code for America Fellows, San Fran- Commons Initiative cisco, Calif.  Steve Nichols, CrisisCommons, , DC CTO, State of  John Nixon, See http://www.govtech.com/top-25/ Director, Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget The Center for Digital Government is  Jim Onalfo, a national research and advisory insti- CIO, Police Department tute on information technology policies  , and best practices in state and local Founder and Executive Director, Code government. for America http://centerdigitalgov.com  Steve Reneker, CIO, Riverside, Calif. Government Technology is about solv-  Michael Riedyk, ing problems in state and local govern- Founder, YouTown ment through the smart use of technol-  Kyle Schafer, ogy. Drawing on the experiences from CTO, West Virginia across the country, Government Tech-  Bryan Sivak, nology features best practices, and fos- Chief Innovation Officer, ters communities of interest around im-  Mark Sloan, proving service delivery and trans- Emergency Management Coordinator, forming government operations. http:// Harris County, Texas www.govtech.com Office of Homeland Security and Emer- gency Management Continued on page 8... Page 8 March & April 2012

Continued from page 7... media for public sector [email protected] Government Technology innovation. 916-932-1300 and the Center for Digital Government are divi- http:/www.erepublic.com sions of e.Republic, a national publishing, Contact: event and research com- Patty Cota pany focused on smart Director of Corporate Communications

GMIS 2012 Awards Program

Dear GMIS Member, at which time they will be Award Nominations for the GMIS honored with the Award. So, This competitive award rec- 2012 Awards Program are please begin working on ognizes the GMIS member now being accepted! Our nominating someone soon! agency whose exceptional IT three most competitive Don't put it off. There is project and/or IT policy is awards are recapped below. someone you know who repeatable by other GMIS Please note that this year's really deserves this award, members so that the level of cut-off date for these three and this is your opportunity excellence can be elevated awards is May 15th. Email to show them that you care for all. nominations to Headquar- about their contribution. [email protected]. Please remember to submit GMIS G2 Award your nominations to GMISOPA Government in fulfilling its www.gmis.org by May 15th This is the 26th Anniversary mission is expected to col- of the Award! As a GMIS laborate with and serve other Please see www.gmis.org for member organization, we in- entities. This competitive detailed qualifications and vite you to nominate some- award recognizes the GMIS submission instructions. one from your staff whose member agency whose IT contributions and perform- project exhibits the best ex- We look forward to the op- ance resulted in an excep- ample of G2 of the year. Eli- portunity to honor you, your tional level of operational gible categories are: G2C agency, and your exemplary excellence. The chosen pro- (citizens), G2B (business), achievements! fessional is invited to the In- and G2G(government). Thank you. ternational Conference as an The GMIS Board expense-paid guest of GMIS GMIS Best Practices Page 9 GMIS International

 2004 - Carole McKinney,  1989 - David Ridilla, The Village of Schaum- Westmoreland County, More About the burg, Illinois Pennsylvania  2003 - Penny Tate, Ca-  1988 - Larry Van Avery, GMIS tawba County, Newton. County, Cali- International North Carolina fornia  2002 - Charles S. (Chuck)  1987 - DiAnn Peeples, Awards Program Crocker, City of Tusca- Richmond County, Au- loosa, Alabama gusta, Georgia  2001 - Clark Rainer, Henry  1986 - June Snelgrove, Outstanding County, McDonough, Broward County, Ft. Professional Award Georgia Lauderdale, Florida  2000 - Kevin Perry, Utah  1985 - Bruce Miller, City This competitive award rec- Alcoholic Beverage Con- of Sandy City, Utah ognizes an individual from trol, Salt Lake City, Utah one of the GMIS member  1999 - Nora Fucci, Town agencies whose contribu- of Nags Head, North Caro- tions and performance re- lina GMIS Member Agency sulted in an exceptional level  1998 - Susie Masters, City of Owensboro, Awards of operational excellence. GMIS G2 Award  1997 - Diane Woodley, Northhampton County, Previous Professional Pennsylvania Government in fulfilling its Award Winners:  1996 - Michael Crowell, mission is expected to col-  City of Salisbury, North laborate with and serve other 2011 - Doug Hislop, South Carolina entities. This competitive Carolina Retirement Sys-  1995 - Huong Ba Le, City award recognizes the GMIS tems of Arlington, Texas member agency whose IT  2010 - Sherri Flynn, City  1994 - Clayton Lewis, City project exhibits the best ex- of Sparks, Nevada of Tulsa, ample of G2 of the year.  2009 - Deborah Seyller,  1993 - Laurie Feldman, Kane County, Illinois Metro Dade County, Mi- Eligible categories are: G2C  2008 - Sherryl Cunning- ami, Florida (citizens), G2B (business), ham, City of Mobile, Ala-  1992 - David Hardy, Salt and G2G (government). bama Lake County, Utah  2007 - Dan Furlong, Medi-  1991 - Kathie Eizenga, cal University of South City of Clinton, GMIS Best Practices Carolina  1990 - Wanda Herring, Award  2006 - Brian D. Kelley, Montgomery County, Ala- Portage County, bama  2005 - Roger Fahnestock, This competitive award rec- Kane County, Illinois Continued on page 10... Page 10 March & April 2012

Awards...Continued from page 9... to the organization. This annual award hon- ognizes the GMIS member agency whose ors a GMIS individual member or GMIS exceptional IT project and/or IT policy is agency member whose efforts directly re- repeatable by other GMIS members so that sulted in GMIS significantly advancing its the level of excellence can be elevated for goals to be the premiere state and local gov- all. ernment IT organization.

GMIS Eligibility State Chapter Award GMIS Champion All individual GMIS members and GMIS member agencies are eligible for this award. Chapter Award Nomination Process This annual award honors the state chapter who has most furthered the overall goals of Nominations are solicited and compiled by GMIS International. the Awards Subcommittee. The Awards Sub- committee is comprised of one Executive GMIS Board Officer who chairs the subcommittee Vendor Award and his/her appointed members from the GMIS International GMIS Advisory Council. Nominations may Platinum Partner Award originate from the Executive Board, the Awards Subcommittee, or the general GMIS This award recognizes a single Vendor/ population. During the nomination process, Partner who has provided exceptional sup- the Awards Subcommittee will document port to the GMIS membership throughout the and submit the following information to the year by providing excellence in IT products Executive Board. and/or IT services and who has also sup-  ported the GMIS organization via active Name of the individual person or agency be- sponsorships, promotional activities, educa- ing nominated. Name of the corresponding tional programs, and participation in GMIS GMIS state chapter. Description of the ef- activities. forts made that are worthy of consideration Description of the tangible results. GMIS International Awards Program Selection Process

Herschel Strickland Award The annual winner is selected by a majority vote of the Executive Board from the submit- In 2008, the Ambassador of the Year Award ted nominations, with the Awards Chairper- was renamed the Herschel Strickland Award son abstaining. to honor the memory of Herschel’s genuine love of GMIS and for his many contributions Continued on page 12... Page 11 GMIS International

the Williams trophy 2012 GMIS for his innovation in Conference aviation leadership and August 19-22, 2012 technology, an award Submitted by: shared with the honor- Sam Ferguson able John Glenn and Marion C. Blakey, ex Jeff has over twenty FAA Administrator. two years of experi- ence in the Low Cost Jeff is a Carrier airline model, Air Force Pilot veteran including leadership and he has logged experience with Jet- more than 10,000 Blue Airways and hours in the Boeing Southwest Airlines – 737 and Airbus fleet two world renowned of aircraft. He is a brands known for cus- graduate of Pittsburg tomer service and pro- State University, KS active employee man- where he earned a BS agement. Jeff is the degree in marketing. Senior Vice President Jeff and his wife of Operations for Jet- Susan reside in NYC Blue Airways where near the JetBlue Head- he directs all daily de- quarters located in partures, 200 aircraft Long Island, NY. and over 4000 crew- Navigating the members across the I am especially proud JetBlue Network. In Winds of Change and pleased to have addition to daily op- with Jeff Martin as one of erations, he is respon- our speakers this year. sible for technical and Key Note Speaker Jeff and I went to high maintenance planning Captain Jeff Martin school together where and operational IT we played sports to- programs. gether, hunted quail together and generally He testified before congress in 2009 provid- had a good time growing up in a small town. ing expertise to NextGen Airspace redesign Over the years we have stayed in touch and and the utilization of new technologies to have shared various experiences. As ad- increase air traffic efficiencies and reduce dressed above Jeff has a vast amount of ex- carbon footprints. In 2010, he was awarded Continued on page 12... Page 12 March & April 2012

Keynote Speaker...Continued from page 11... put any undue pressure on hope this gives you a small perience working for two of Jeff but I would also expect taste of what is to come with the most customer focused his presentation to include a this year’s conference. We organizations in the airlines good dose of humor along believe we are putting to- business. I would also say with practical management gether a good one and we that both of the organiza- advice. hope everyone can make it tions he has and is working to Chicago. For more infor- for also do a great job work- Jeff Martin and his experi- mation on the conference or ing with their employees. ences are just one example to make a reservation, please We should look forward to of what the 2012 program visit the web site at http:// Jeff passing on some of the committee is putting to- www.gmis.org. key management practices gether for the 2012 GMIS and principles to us. Not to Conference in Chicago. I

GMIS Awards...Continued from page 10... Prior Winners  2000 - Charles Downey, Conflict of Interest , Georgia

 1999 - Doug Taylor, City It is the responsibility of the  2011 - Chap- of Tuscaloosa, Alabama ter Awards Chairperson to en-  1998 - Robert (Bob) Can- sure that any person or  2008 - Elaine Isler, City of ney, Black Hawk County, agency nominated for this Mobile, Alabama Waterloo, Iowa  2007 - Marc Pfeiffer, New award does not indirectly  1990 - Jana Bagwell, City influence or directly vote. Jersey Division of Local of Oklahoma City, Okla- Whenever a GMIS member Government Services homa  2006 - Matthew Wain- or his/her agency is nomi-  1989 - Frank W. Straus- nated for this award and that wright, Rhode Island baugh, Savannah, Georgia Chapter President person is also sitting on the  1988 - Rovert (Bob) Can- Awards Subcommittee or the  2004 - Michael D. Esolda, ney, Black Hawk County, Executive Board, that person New Jersey Chapter Presi- Waterloo, Iowa and his/her agency shall be dent excluded from all evalua-  2003 - Janet Claggett, tions, discussions, and ac- Richland County, South tivities surrounding this Carolina award. Exclusions shall also  2002 - Elaine Olah, Santa apply if an agency coworker Fe, is nominated.  2001 - Johnny A. Walton, Aiken County, South Carolina Page 13 GMIS International

The GMIS Annual Confer- your experience and leader- Speakers Confirmed! ence is excited to offer three ship, your energy and enthu- full days of expert panels, siasm, your knowledge and  Jeff Martin, Vice Presi- esteemed keynote speakers skills. Come together with dent of the Operations and excellent opportunities to other Information Technol- Coordination Center for meet and network with the ogy leaders from throughout Southwest Airlines the country to explore new leaders who are shaping the  Gail Thomas Flynn, Vice initiatives, navigate current future of information technol- President, US State and challenges, and learn first- ogy in the public sector Local Government for hand what others in your in- across the United States as Microsoft well as internationally. Don't dustry are doing around the miss this incredible opportu- globe to stay ahead. Leave nity to interact with your this meeting knowing you  Shannon Tufts, Assistant peers in the heart of down- will make a difference Professor and Director for the Center for Public town Chicago. . Technology at the Uni-

What's New versity of North Caro- Why You Go Call for Presentations now lina confirmed to speak at open! this year's conference.

The organizations you serve, the mission you share, the Take this opportunity to For further information on profession you advance - share your organization's suc- the conference go to: those are the reasons you go cesses and lessons learned http://www.gmis.org/conference to the GMIS International with fellow GMIS members. Annual Conference. Share Page 14 March & April 2012

Chapter Roll Call

Alabama Alabama GMIS holds two meetings a year. One in the Summer in the Southern part of the state and the other in the Winter in the Northern part of the state.

Connecticut

Georgia

Illinois

Kansas

Michigan

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North Carolina NCLGISA offers two annual conferences which begin on a Wednesday at noon and end on a Friday at noon. The date for the next conference is May 15-May 18. For fur- ther information see: http://www.nclgisa.org

New Jersey The next conference will be held: April 25. For further information see: http://www.njgmis.org/ conference.html

Nevada This chapter holds it’s annual conference in October every year..

Pennsylvania Rhode Island Date and logo will be posted when available. Date and logo will be posted when available.

South Carolina Next conference: April 9-11, You can find out more about our events by going to www.scgmis.org.

Utah Virginia Date and logo will be posted when available. Date and logo will be posted when available. Page 16 March & April 2012

Sister Organizations ALGIM—New Zealand KommITS—Sweden Mike Wanden, President Thorbjörn Larsson, President Association of Local Gov’t Information Management Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] http://www.kommits.se http://www.algim.org.nz

MISA—British Columbia, Canada MISA—Ontario, Canada David Hennigan, President Municipal Information Systems Association of ON Municipal Information Systems Association of BC Contact: Garry Bezruki, City of Waterloo Contact: [email protected] or 1-250-360-3141 100 Regina St S., Waterloo, ON, N2J 4A8 http://misa.bc.ca Tel: 519-747-8726 http://www.misa.on.ca

SocITM—United Kingdom ViAG—Netherlands Steve Palmer, President Han Fasten, President Society of Information Technology Management Contact: Johan van der Waal at [email protected] Contact: [email protected] http://www.viag.nl http://www.socitm.gov

V-ICT-OR—Belgium LOLA—Linked Organization of Local Louis Massagé Authority Paviljoenstraat 7 -9 A loose grouping of Associations that share common 1030 Brussels values is found at tel: +3225680891 www.lola-online.org http://www.v-ict-or.be Page 17 GMIS International

The Last Word

What type articles do we accept for publication?

 Previously published in another publication (it must include credits to that publication)

 Good, Bad and Ugly

 Projects ongoing or completed

 Meetings  Activities Save the Date!  Awards GMIS 2012 Annual Conference  Kudos August 19 - 22, 2012  Etc.

Chicago, Illinois Get yourself “published”!

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