Office of Technology Partnerships

September 17, 2007

State and Local Collaboration

Michigan’s Cross Boundary Program

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Looking toward the future

Michigan’s Local & State Government “Cross Boundary Collaboration Program”

Collaboration action steps:

• Structured

• Sustainable

• Leverages existing infrastructure, applications, processes and resources

• Develop strategies and policies across tiers

• Identify unique opportunities/barriers, stakeholders and incentives

• Identify shared business processes

• Develop ways to allocate resources and share costs

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Michigan’s Cross Boundary Collaboration Strategy

Build once

Serve many

Operate as one unit

Have a simple entry point

Reduce costs

Provide better and more services to citizens

Make crossing government lines seamless

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Michigan’s Cross Boundary Steering Committee

• Collaborative agreements

• Measure, monitor and communicate

• Governance structures

• ID opportunities, incentives and barriers

• Strategic risk assessment

Local and State Cross Boundary CollaborationSteering Committee

Duane Hettinger & Bob Daddow Co-Chairs

State Government

Duane Hettinger- Cityof Kalamazoo

Bob DaddowOakland County

Naheed HuqSEMCOG

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Craig PaullKent County

Dan RaineyCity of Ann Arbor

Jim Hogan Agency Services

George Boersma OTP

Pat HaleInfrastructure Services

Eric Swanson CGI

Andris OzolsResearch

Local Government

Sreenivas CherukuriCity of Detroit

Associations

MAC

MML

MTA

Committee’s

Task

And they’re making

progress

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Next Steps for Cross Boundary Steering Committee Build complete Cross Boundary

governance process Define scope of Steering

Committee and administrative authority Determine role of governing body

(decision makers, advisors?) Perform inventory of cross boundary

past successes and results Investigate property tax collection and assess cross boundary

opportunities Work on 2010 Census Evaluate Homeland Security

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Cross Boundary in Motion

Local Government

Status Board

Local Government

GIS Collaboration

Local & State

Network IntegrationMI-ISAC

Local & State Cross Boundary Initiatives

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Local and State Network Integration

Two pilot locations underway

Alpena CountyState connection to ride on local fiberReducing annual cost from $47,976 to $8,634

(estimate)

Kent CountyCounty & state building sit next door to each otherPoke hole thru county building to state, eliminate

county T1 connections and ride on state’s DS3 linePotential annual cost savings - $28,704

Identified 52 other possible locations

across the state

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Local Government Status Board (LGSB)

Pilot ProgramFour counties (Oakland, Kent, Macomb, and Ottawa)

Application allows access to information and notifications of occurrences affecting local government, such as the LEIN systems status, local power outages, etc.

3-15 incidents and changes posted daily ranging from security threats to router configuration notices

There will be an assessment of the pilot program and plans will be put into place to expand and add new applications

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Local Government GIS Collaboration 

24 counties have signed partnership agreements State cost: $350,000

18 counties have acquired imagery and are potential partners State cost (est.): $270,000

State acquisition “non-partnered” counties 2’ resolution State cost (est.): $1,500,000

Projected Results

Total value of statewide data: $5,700,000

Eliminated duplication savings: $3,570,000

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Michigan Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MI-ISAC)Two-way information sharing between state

and local governments, educational institutions and emergency management entities

Membership has its rewards….Direct access to cyber security threat information from the stateAccess to security awareness materials, including computer-based

training modulesAccess to security policy templatesAccess to security-related solutions at enterprise price points

negotiated by the state Access to periodic meetings, teleconferences and web casts to

promote peer networking and information sharing MI-ISAC currently has 50 members

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MI-ISAC Stats

There have been over 80 notices posted to the system to date; ranging from very critical to informational

28% members have accessed the system 10 or more times

12% members have accessed the system 20 or more times

16% members have accessed the system 30 or more times

**The other 44% members accessed the system less than 10 times

A survey of current members was conducted to evaluate system usage and determine if any improvements could be made; a limited number of responses were received to date

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How You Can Help…

Identify cross boundary collaboration opportunities in your area and contact the steering committee

Assist in populating the inventory database

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Ideas?

Do you have any suggestions

for future local and state

collaboration or any ideas to

improve current efforts?

Share them with us!

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George Boersma, Director 517.335.1507 boersmag@michigan.gov

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