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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the chair of the council to enter into a contract for consultant services to advise and assist the council in the acquisition of a constituent relationship management system.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The King County council sets policies, enacts laws, helps constituents and adopts the annual county budget. The council is divided into nine council districts, with approximately 200,000 constituents in each district. 2. In order to carry out their required duties, councilmembers receive and send communications their constituents. At the present time, each councilmember has developed his own method of saving constituent information and the outcomes of constituent requests.
3. The council desires to acquire a constituent relationship management system that will standardize the retention of constituent information and to secure a contract with an independent consultant to evaluate and make recommendations on various options to accomplish this task.
4. The Technology Solutions Group , a division of the state Center for Information Services, provides these services to local government agencies throughout the state.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The chair of the council is hereby authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement, substantially in the form of the attached, with the Center For Information Services, Technology Solutions Group.