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Child Support Services (CSS) recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a budget transfer decreasing the CSS Salary and Benefits appropriations by $60,0000 and increasing Fixed Asset appropriations by $60,000 (4/5 vote required); and
2) Approve the addition of a $60,000 Security Camera Upgrade Project to the Fiscal Year 2023-23 Fixed Asset List for Child Support Services.
FUNDING: Federal and State Child Support Funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
In 2019, El Dorado County completed an assessment of the County’s Video Surveillance Systems for the purpose of consolidating, standardizing, improving upon the support and to comply with State retention regulations as it relates to video storage. The analysis identified 168 cameras of various makes and models, operating at fifteen County-wide locations, a variety of Camera manufacturers as well as Video Management vendors with the goal of improving video coverage, standardizing the camera manufacturer and storage, complying with Government Code 26206.8, centralizing support and driving down the cost of the cameras by volume purchase discounts. Selecting a single vendor will provide the county with a single view of all areas under surveillance, capability to integrate with Local Law Enforcement, simplify the support, and drive down overall cost of the solution. Strategic placement of the surveillance cameras will deter crime and integration with local law enforcement will significantly reduce the crime.
The Ponderosa Building located at 3883 Ponderosa Road in Shingle Springs has been shared by the Child Support Services Department and Health and Human Services Agency in prior years. After the purchase of the building in 2023, it was determined that the building needed an update to the existing camera system in the section of the building that Child Support Services occupies.
Child Support Services is requesting a budget transfer moving $60,000 in Salaries and Benefits savings to Fixe...
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