In the Community August 2016 | Page 4

BUILDING A NIMBLE, EFFICIENT ENTERPRISE. MORE OF WHAT WE NEED, LESS OF WHAT WE DON’T. Building a new organization using only existing funding is a challenge, to say the least. Our Finance and Budget department helped sustain our first year by juggling three separate budgets, and we managed to improve our materials and operations while doing so. We set up financial systems, inventory processes, and procurement contracts, transferred buildings, vehicles, office leases, and contracts, and replaced a vast majority of landlines with mobile devices. RESOURCES EASY TO USE. BUILT TO LAST. Robust policies and procedures are the backbone of any law enforcement organization. We created a process to review, update, and merge nearly 300 existing policies and procedures into DCS to help ensure the integrity of our operations at every level, and we created six specialized, interactive websites to help make these policies and other documents and resources easily accessible to internal staff. INFORMATION EVERYWHERE. BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER. The Information Technology team was tireless this year: they implemented Google Apps for Government and Chromebooks to outfit our Field Staff with better, faster equipment for less than half the cost of traditional equipment. Meanwhile, they built the Georgia Reentry Web Portal, a web-based application that serves the needs of DCS staff as well as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Georgia Commission on Family Violence, and Misdemeanor Probation Oversight operations. DCS.GA.GOV