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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 14031ORDINANCE NO.1~C~~~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE IV, CHAPTER 2 (ADMINISTRATION) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1986), AS AMENDED, BY RENAMING DIVISION 1 THEREOF AS "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS DEPARTMENT"; PROVIDING FOR THE CREATION AND OPERATION OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS DEPARTMENT; AND FURTHER PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS THAT: SECTION 1 Division 1 of Article IV, Chapter 2 of the Code of the Crty of Fort Worth (1986), as amended, ~s hereby renamed "Information Technology Solutions." Division 1 is further amended so that it shall read as follows Sec. 2-96. Establishment and Supervision of Department. An Information Technology Solutions Department ("Department") is hereby established. The Department shall be supervised by a director ("Director"), who shall be subject to appointment and removal by the Crty Manager, and overseen by an Executive Steering Committee, which shall consist of the Crty Manager and all Assistant Crty Managers. The Director's salary shall be set by the City Manager m accordance with the City's compensation plan. Sec. 2-97. Department Employees. The Director shall have the authority to appoint, employ and remove assistants, employees and other personnel as the Director deems necessary for the efficient admimstration of the Department's affairs and the execution of the Department's duties and obligations. The Director shall prescribe the duties of and compensation to such assistants, employees and other personnel. Sec. 2-98. Department Duties. (1) The Department shall provide strategic and operational planning on a City-wide basis for all of the City's information technology (2) The Department shall manage the procurement of information technology used by the Crty, including without limitation, telephone, radio and computer systems, Internet and Intranet based systems, and software application systems. The Department shall also provide operational support and services for this information technology (3) The Department shall construct and operate the City's shared information technology infrastructure and establish standards therefor (4) The Department shall develop and/or acquire new information technology services as necessary m order to support the City's strategic directions and operations. Sec. 2-99. Executive Steering Committee. An Executive Steering Committee, consisting of the Crty Manager and all Assistant City Managers, is hereby established. The Executive Steering Committee shall from time to time (i) review and oversee the development by the Department of information technology strategic plans for the City; (ii) establish priorities for the implementation of the City's information technology strategic plans, (iii) recommend adoption of final strategic plans by the City Council, and (iv) provide general directions to the Department regarding information technology issues. The Executive Steering Committee may adopt rules for the conduct of its business at the discretion of the Crty Manager SECTION 2. Sections 2-100 through 2-110 are hereby reserved for future use. SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall be cumulative of all ordinances of the City, except where the provisions of this Ordinance are m direct conflict with the provisions of such other ordinances, m which case the conflicting provisions of such other ordinances are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. The sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this Ordinance are severable. If any portion of this Ordinance is declared illegal or unconstitutional by the valid final judgment or decree of any court of competent ~unsdiction, such illegality or unconstitutionality shall not affect the legality and enforceability of any of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall be m full force and effect following its adoption. AND IT IS SO ORDAINED. 2 ADOPTED ~L EFFECTIVE /o~ `vZ~ `"~~ APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY By• ~/fi Peter Vaky Assistant City ttorney City of Fort Worth, Texas n-~Ayar And ICaunc~l C,ammun~cAt~an DATE REFERENCE NUMBER LOG NAME PAGE 12/21 /99 G-12769 12CREATE 1 of 2 SUBJECT AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE IV OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE CITY CODE ESTABLISHING THE CREATION, DUTIES AND ORGANIZATION OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance amending Article IV of Chapter 2 of the City Code to establish the creation of an Information Technology Solutions Department and outline the organization and duties thereof DISCUSSION The Information Systems and Services (ISS) Department has taken on new roles over the last two years Now, unlike most departments, it operates as an internal business unit supplying services and goods to customer departments and organizations external to the City on afee-for-service basis This change has required the department to re-think its organizational structure in an effort to minimize overhead and direct more staff to frontline customer support functions In its transformation into a business, ISS has determined that it also needs to re-craft its image The attached ordinance formally creates an Information Technology Solutions (IT Solutions) Department out of the old ISS Department and specifies the department's duties Additionally, it creates an Executive Steering Committee to serve as a means for the department to develop technology priorities to meet City Council objectives All duties for the department specified in the ordinance are already being performed by the department under the authority of several Department Head Letters from the City Manager's Office The department's new name will reflect its direction to provide technology solutions that assist customer departments to better provide their services to the public All customer-facing operations are now centralized into a single Customer Services Division to ensure consistency and a single point of management responsibility Formerly, these functions were distributed among the three major departmental operating units The three operating units, supplemented by other positions gained from the reorganization, were redesigned into six basic operating functions focused around particular technologies This provides for very clear responsibilities for each unit and reduces administrative overhead by making former administrative managers into working managers Overall, the goal is a streamlined organization that is styled like a business with a new identity to supplement its new service directions The attached ordinance codifies the new department name and responsibilities and provides it with a technology priority-setting mechanism City of Dort Worth, Texas n-~Ayar And (saunc~l ~,,ammun~cAt~an DATE 12/21/99 REFERENCE NUMBER G-12769 LOG NAME 12CREATE PAGE 2 of 2 suB~ECT AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE IV OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE CITY CODE ESTABLISHING THE CREATION, DUTIES AND ORGANIZATION OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS DEPARTMENT FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION The Finance Director certifies that this action will have no material effect on City funds CBj Submitted for City Manager's FUND ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT CITY SECRETARY Office by: (to) ~. rtT" P" ~L1~ ~~ //°°~~ Charles Boswell 8511 '' ~~~~ ~~~5~l~,s~~ Originating Department Head: DFC ~1 1999 Wade Adkins 7623 (from) t i i~ ~!~i7!NL4 l r~~ ~'F~~ Additional Information Contact: r ` ®g glre y~4ret:.sq~ r ;i Michael Di Paolo 8450 , ~ E:ity caf 1'ort'~'ort3t, `T'o'tes Peter Vaky 760] fi<+i~~.??yix tJ~i,i1i Y~cijiV !'i ~9 ~~`~~ a