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A MOTION approving the program charter for the accountable business transformation project.
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WHEREAS, King County and Metro were established as separate governments and operated separate computer systems to support their financial, payroll and human resources business processes, and
WHEREAS, King County and Metro merged into a single government in 1994, and
WHEREAS, in 1997, the financial systems replacement project ("FSRP") was initiated to consolidate the two core financial systems into a single countywide core financial system and to consolidate the two core payroll systems into a single core human resources/payroll system, and
WHEREAS, the FSRP project to consolidate the two financial and two payroll systems was suspended in May 2000, and
WHEREAS, in July 2001, Dye Management Group, Inc., completed a critical assessment of the suspended project, a high level business case for re-starting the project, and an implementation plan to recommend project direction for a possible restart, and
WHEREAS, the July 2001, Dye report further recommended that the county address the organizational and technical barriers to program continuance and success including revalidating and confirming sponsorship of the program vision and its alignment with the county's short- and long-term goals, confirming sponsorship of the program vision among key stakeholders, and establishing a strong governance structure, and
WHEREAS, the county has acquired valuable experience and lessons learned from the previous efforts, and
WHEREAS, since suspension of the FSRP the county has proceeded in a very careful, methodical and deliberate way toward improving its related services, addressing the pre-requisites for a successful launch of the countywide business transformation effort as recommended by the 2001 Dye Critical Assessment and Implementation Planning Reports, and the King County Strategic Technology Plan, and
WHEREAS, in July 2001,the council adopted Ordinance...

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