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Clerk 7/11/2007
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A MOTION approving the High Level Business Plan, Budget System Requirements Document and updated Cost Benefit Assumptions for the accountable business transformation program.
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WHEREAS, the King County council adopted Motion 11729 on June 16, 2003, that approved a Vision and Goals Statement recommended by the executive and the Strategic Advisory Council for enterprise financial, human resource and budget management, accepted a plan to develop a roadblocks action plan and quantified business case, and
WHEREAS, the King County council adopted Motion 12024 on October 4, 2004, approving accountable business transformation program policies, and
WHEREAS, in April 2006, via Motion 12274, the council amended the 2006-08 Strategic Technology Plan to move the enterprise applications, which are financials, human resources/payroll and budget, from the fifth to the first Efficiency Goal, and
WHEREAS, in July 2006, the accountable business transformation ("ABT") program manager submitted his assessment report to the council to comply with the request for an independent evaluation of the program by the ABT program manager, and
WHEREAS, in September 2006, the ABT program received funding approval via Ordinance 15595 for human resources/payroll and financial software upgrades and removal of the expenditure restriction of the appropriation authority for the ABT program in the 2005 Budget Ordinance, and
WHEREAS, the council approved a revised Accountable Business Transformation Program Charter via Motion 12364 in October 2006 that shows clear lines of accountability and succession within the program, and
WHEREAS, the ABT leadership committee accepted the Accountable Business Tranformation Program Charter adopted by the council and approved use of subject matter experts from their organizations to work on the High Level Business Plan at the meeting of January 2007, and
WHEREAS, the ABT external advisory committee and the program's quality assurance consultants agree that confirmation of scope and active engagement of subject matter experts is critically important to the success of large scale business process change efforts, and
WHEREAS, the ABT external advisory committee made up of public and private experts in the field of enterprise business process change efforts found that the county's High Level Business Plan and budget for completing the planning stage were reasonable and sound, and
WHEREAS, subject matter experts from all county organizations participated in thirty-one working sessions from February through May 2007 on business processes for finance, human resources, payroll/benefits and budget requirements to determine target practices, recommend business decisions and high payback prioritization to inform the development of the High Level Business Plan and budget system requirements, and
WHEREAS, the documents presented herein have been reviewed and approved in accordance with the governance structure established by the adopted Accountable Business Transformation Program Charter, and
WHEREAS, the ABT program management office has compiled a complete record of comments received by subject matter experts and governance review committees, and
WHEREAS, the final review of the subject documents was conducted by the elected leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., County who serve on the ABT leadership committee;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The Accountable Business Transformation High Level Business Plan that
includes Budget System Requirements and updated Cost Benefit Assumptions included as Attachment A to this motion is hereby approved.