From Harford County government:
County Executive Barry Glassman’s administration is redesigning the Harford County government website to make it easier for you to find information and do business with the county from the convenience of a computer or any mobile device.
“I said during my campaign that my administration would focus on improving customer service,” said County Executive Glassman. “We are redesigning the county website to help you find information and access services more quickly and easily. Please help us by telling us how the county website can better serve you.”
To provide your input, please email WebsiteRedesign@harfordcountymd.gov or go to http://www.harfordcountymd.gov/Executive/WebsiteRedesign.html to answer questions, including what you like about the design of the existing website, and your ideas for improvement.
During the redesign process, there will be no disruption in service from the existing website, and the Web address www.harfordcountymd.gov will not change after the redesign is complete.
The Glassman administration will also save taxpayer money by outsourcing both the redesign and future maintenance of the site to CivicPlus, a proven leader in government websites, with 1,800 local, county and state clients including Frederick County, Maryland. CivicPlus will provide a complete redesign as well as hosting services, daily backups, 24/7 support, disaster recovery plans and system enhancements. Annual savings due to outsourcing will be approximately $87, 000 in the first year of the contract, followed by annual savings of approximately $194,000 per year.
none says
I can think of ways to save real money in the county. Starting with the bloated Harford County Public Schools and then move onto the local heros and get their spending under control.
Ideas says
Can you list, specifically, which positions within HCPS should be eliminated?
Corbin says
Well, for one example, I for one would like to know what a “Supervisor of Equity and Cultural Proficiency” does and why that role can’t be folded into another position?
The title is “supervisor” so common sense tells me there is at least 1 “staff” member being supervised in this title.
Ideas says
ok…there’s one position that definitely sounds like bloat. Any others?
Corbin says
Id also wonder why school’s require so many “vice Principals”? I think someone told me that some school’s have both a male and a female vice principal for each grade? LOL
How about school psychologist? Is that really needed?
Doubt It says
A male and female principal for each grade? I don’t think so. That would be 8 vp’s per high school, 6 in each middle school, and 12 in each elementary. Pretty typical that a high school has 3 vp’s, middle school 2-3, and elementary 1.
I think school psychologists are pretty much a necessity, considering all the behavior, emotional, and psychological issues that schools have to deal with.
Rivan says
How about the HCPS $90k spokesperson
real simple stuff says
Ideas,
All government bureaucracies are purposefully designed to cloak bloat through obfuscation. Their first response is always to ask for specific analysis for any cut. That is actually impossible when the entire system is absurd.
In the private sector the answer is simple: cut one in five from staff and one in 4 from management. Then divide the work.
Government tries to blow smoke up our butts by suggesting each job is specialized and requires some educational degree. But that is crap, because an education degree is crap.
For teaching you cut 20% of everybody that doesn’t have a classroom or clean the school. Real simple stuff. There, solved.
IT Gal says
Why can’t the bloated IT department design the website? Ted Pibil can’t figure it out?
IT Gal says
And why are we outsourcing to a company out of state and out of county. Isn’t Harford County open for business???