NACCED 2011 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CRAIG GOEBEL

“IDIS TOUCH”

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

2:15 PM

Community Development ProgramCraig Goebel, Director

IDIS Touch

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IDIS “TouchPanelist - Craig Goebel

• Gwinnett County - The Place

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Gwinnett County – The Place

• Located 35 miles NE of Atlanta• Founded in 1818• Named for Button Gwinnett – Signer

of Declaration of Independence• 2nd most populous county in Georgia• 433 square miles• 15 incorporated municipalities.

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Gwinnett County - The People

• 1970 Pop. 72,349 – 94.8% White• 2000 Pop. 588,488 – 72.7% White • 2010 Pop. 805,321

– 44% White– 23% African-American– 20% Hispanic– 10% Asian– 3% Two or More Races

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Gwinnett County – The Government

• 5 member elected Board of Commissioners

• County Administrator oversees the daily operations

• 4,800 County Employees

• Uses out-sourcing of some services, such as management of HUD Entitlement Grants

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Gwinnett County – The Government – Community Development Program

• Is a Program of the Department of Financial Services

• Administers HUD Entitlement Grants

• Staffed by W. Frank Newton, Inc. since 1986

[11 of WFN’s 38 employees work at its Gwinnett County office]

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IDIS In Gwinnett

• Used IDIS since IDIS was activated in 1996

• Participated in the dial-up/”dumb terminal” era

• Community Development Program staff perform setups and beneficiary/accomplishments reporting

• Grants staff in Gwinnett County Department of Financial Services make payments and perform drawdowns.

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Standard IDIS Report Uses Reconciliations of IDIS/SAP Accounting System Manage/oversight of programmatic timeliness Evaluate County productivity against ConPlan

metrics Evaluate productivity of Subrecipients against

ConPlan and Subrecipient Agreement metrics

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Standard IDIS Report Uses - Page 2 Data source for special reports to public and elected

officials [e.g. just-completed Silver Anniversary CDBG Report – 1986-2010]

Evaluate staff productivity Use data from Excel versions of IDIS reports to craft

custom reports for local use

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Linkages to Local Systems for IDIS

Data in WFN-developed Action Plan project descriptions [Excel format] mirrors data required in IDIS

Planned on-line reporting from Subrecipients which will feed into planned local database from which data for IDIS will be generated. New updates to IDIS may simplify.

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Grantee Wish List for IDIS

ConPlan enhancements to permit uploading of setup information into IDIS, as was permitted under Community 2020 software

Capacity to upload actual beneficiary data from Access 2010 database or Excel 2010

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Grantee Wish List for IDIS – Page 2

Add a new icon in drawdown setup process to permit return to prior screen to make corrections to line items without losing data for other activities

Creation of reports in a format permitting their insertion directly into the narrative [prefer an option to download report in a generic file format recognized by WORD, not just pdf or Excel]

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Contact:

Craig Goebel, Director

Gwinnett County Community Development Program

575 Old Norcross Road, Suite A

Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046-4367

Telephone: 770.822.5430

Email: craig.goebel@gwinnettcounty.com