SharePoint – Environment Stabilization and Council Action Request Redesign

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2014

The Office of Information Technology worked collaboratively with the Baltimore County Administrative Office and County Council, to develop an application for the automation of the County’s Council Action Request process. This process automation facilitates the submission, review, and approval of a County Agency’s request for Council action on Contracts, Bills, and Resolutions electronically. In the former manual process, users were required to provide 1 original and 7 copies of packets to be sent through the approval process. Thus, a contract packet would average a total of 1,050 pages for one contract from a single Agency. Through this process, the County has significantly reduced paper usage from 1,050 to 150 pages for contracts alone. In addition, this electronic process enables Directors and the Administrative Office to review and approve reques