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Agenda of the October 7, 1982, Meeting 

DPA Board Member Robert Bailey to Address October Association Meeting 

November 4, 1982 Association Meeting Note 

Minutes of September 2, 1982 Meeting

Information Systems Forum: 1982, Systems Development Tools 

      Not included in this document:

Service Center 3 Microprocessor Resource Center 

Bargains ‘n’ Boat Anchors

Human Resource Development Belvedere

Data Structured System Development: Data Administration

Association Board of Directors, Officers, Committees, Sub-Committees, 8/1/82

Other, Non-ADPM Committees, 8/1/82,

ASSOCIATION OF DATA PROCESSING

MANAGERS

MEETING AGENDA

Arnold’s Restaurant

October 7, 1982

12:00 Noon

1. Introduction of Guests

2. Presentation of Guest Speaker - Bob Bailey

3. Approval of Minutes

4. Treasurer's Report

5 . ADPM Board Report

6 . DPA Announcements

7. Old Business

-         Personnel Liaison

-         Office Automation

-         Forum' 82

8. New Business

DPA BOARD MEMBER ROBERT BAILEY

TO ADDRESS OCTOBER ASSOCIATION MEETING

Our speaker for the October 7th ADPM meeting is Bob Bailey. Bob is currently Corporate Director, M3.npower Systems and Plans, The Boeing Company. Bob has been with The Boeing Company for 34 years, 31 years in various management positions. Bob has been associated with data processing at The Boeing Company since 1960, initially as a "user" of DP services, and later as a corporate wide coordinator of data processing application implementation.

Bob has been active in many civil and governmental activities. Bob was appointed to the Data Processing Authority Board in 1979 and has been an active participant. He is currently chairman of the DPA ad hoc planning sub-committee.

Bob will speak on State ADP plans and directions. As the DPA Board will have concluded their two day planning conference in late September, Bob should give us some timely insight into State ADP plans.

Your attendance should be well worth while.

NOVEMBER 4, 1982 ASSOCIATION

MEETING NOTES

The regular November Association of Data Processing Managers Meeting will be held in conjunction with the forum at 12:00 Noon on November 4, 1982 in one of the CAB rooms. More information on the exact location will appear in the next issue of the Newsletter.

Association of Data Processing Managers

Minutes for Meeting of

September 2, 1982

The meeting was called to order by the chairman, Dick Applestone.

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS:

Emory Kramer introduced his wife, Jewel Kramer. 

Ron Pierce introduced Walt Jorgenson of Dept. of Retirement.

Ross Eberle introduced Sharon Brown of Dept. of Revenue.

INTRODUCTION OF GUEST SPEAKER:

Cliff Cotey introduced the guest speaker, Mr. Joe Taller, the Director of the Office of Financial Management. Mr. Taller is on the Board of Directors for the Data Processing Authority and is a member of three DPA sub-committees, the Adhoc Planning Subcommittee, the Service Center Subcommittee and the Acquisition Subcommittee. Prior to taking a position with the State of Washington, Mr. Taller was employed by the Boeing Company and during that time he was elected to the State Legislature. He participated on many legislative committees, for example the Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program Committee (LEAP Committee). He was chairman of the LEAP Committee at one time.

JOE TALLER:

Mr. Taller began by discussing the economic condition of the state. The management of the state is doing its planning based on an expectation of economic recovery. Many indications are good right now but the state's employment picture depends on Boeing and that situation poses a big risk to the state at the present time.

The state government has had to deal with, the problem of tax revenues being down 28~ in the last two years. This has been caused by several things. Boeing was expected to have a flat rate of growth.

It has declined significantly. The Washington Public Power Supply System was expected to have five plants producing power -- it has two.

Interest was expected to go down which would stimulate the housing industry -- it stayed high. The direction of the Federal Government has changed -- that was not anticipated. Taxes have been both up and down with the effect that the taxable base has remained pretty much the same. A big new tax burden was added, however, when the state adopted the responsibility for funding basic education and this brings up a very basic problem -- we cannot afford to fund basic education. Adding to the severity of the problem, there is a law suit from Seattle which accuses the state of not meeting the basic education requirements.

This state has a "discretionary tax base". That is, people can decide to not spend their money. Since a major source of Washington's tax revenue is sales tax and people have been cutting back on spending there have been lower tax revenues to the state.

Higher Education has had major budget reductions. During this past biennium the state used $73 million from capitol funds to pay for higher education. This was a one time source of funds -- where will the money come from next time?

The Department of Corrections has had to deal with an increasing requirement to handle prisoners. At the present time, 20% of convicted felons are going to state prisons. It has proven to be a very good thing that the state acquired the facilities at McNeil Island from the federal government. It was very expensive, however, to re-equip the facilities and it's too bad that the decision wasn't made earlier so much of that expense could have been avoided.

The Department of Social and Health Services has had to cut their services. In the area of welfare, the cuts are to the point where an in-tack family does not qualify. The emphasis of welfare is on helping children.

It is now felt that a big mistake was made when pension funds were used to pay off a loan that was due in October. Ignoring the pension funding problem will affect the states bond rating.

There is an initiative to change the B & 0 Tax to a Corporate Income Tax and eliminate Sales Tax. If this initiative passes, it will cause a 10% reduction in tax revenue for the last half of fiscal year '83.

NEXT BIENNIUM WILL BE WORSE. MOST NEW TAXES ARE SUNSET ON JULY 1, 1983.

Mr. Taller moved on to discuss the Data Processing Authority. It has been said "Let's look at the DPA" and the result of that look was a bill that proposed the Office of Information Systems (OIS). It went nowhere, most likely because of the flaws in the bill. Following that, a DPA subcommittee, the Ad Hoc Planning Subcommittee, was formed by the DPA to do a self analysis.

A review of the statutes which established the DPA shows that the DPA has all the power that is needed to address the problems that stimulated the OIS proposal. It is important to keep people from outside state employ like Jim Wilson and Bob Bailey on the DPA.

In spite of cut-backs, state government will have to keep doing the job with fewer people and data processing can help. In fact, it must help.

OFM and the DPA are trying to have better coordination between their planning cycles. Even though OIS failed, at least it got peoples attention. A cooperative approach is now encouraged as the best way to accomplish improved data processing coordination. An area of increased emphasis will be the use of common systems. AFRS is one good example of a successful one.

QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE:

Dick Applestone - Is an income tax likely to be proposed by the currently administration?

Yes, it will definitely be considered, along with many other taxing alternatives. The most likely implementation would be a flat 1% of either the gross income or the adjusted gross income. The Tax Advisory Council has been established by the Governor to look at all aspects of the complex question of Washington State taxes.

Paul Newman - Where does opposition to adding, for example 1 cent, to the sales tax generally come from?

From the areas of the state that are near a state border. For example, the merchants of Longview lose a lot of business because people cross over to Portland to make their purchases so the sales taxes can be avoided. Likewise, the merchants of Spokane, Pullman, Walla Walla, and Blaine are generally against increasing sales tax. Its interesting to note in this regard that in Eastern Washington there is general support for a sales tax on food. They feel its a fair tax since everyone has to eat and everyone should pay a share of the taxes

Bob Payne - How much tax revenue would be realized if there where a flat 1% income tax? Approximately $1 billion.

Paul Newman - How much if 1 cent were added to sales tax?

Approximately $688 million.

ADPM BUSINESS MEETING

APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

The minutes of the July 8, 1982 meeting were approved as distributed.

TREASURERS REPORT:

Reported in July            $1,252.58

Sept. speakers lunch 6.88-

Dividend, June 7.28

Dividend, July 7.18

Current Balance            $1,268.96

ADPM BOARD REPORT:

- Budget was reviewed and approved.

- Their was a briefing of the OATC by Keith Morse.

- Don Ice of WDPSC presented the results of a study on a Professional Series of Personnel Classifications. The ADPM board will write a letter to the Dept. of Personnel saying that they do not want to be a road block to WDPSC in having the series approved. Also, the analyst and programmer series need to be reviewed and considered for a matrix approach to classification.

- Twila Perry gave a report on the Fall forum. John Aikin will serve on the committee along with Joe Coogan and Reuben Marti.

- The committee rosters were updated. A revised copy will go out with the minutes.

- Sub-committee on Standards - Dennis Jones:

They are proceeding and progressing. They met and approved a statement of the goals and objectives. The volunteers will meet next week and they hope to have an outline of suggestions by September 24th which will include a definition of some of the problems.

DPA ANNOUNCEMENTS:

- Communications:

- UW's Prime Mini-computer--being acquired by OTCC.

- DPA Budget Request--reflects 90% target but will not be the amount that goes to the legislature as a request.

- Committee Reports:

- Adhoc Planning--met that morning and reviewed a draft planning document.

- Staff Business:

- Service center financial statements.

- Consolidated DP revolving fund statements.

- Acquisitions:

- Approval of Employment Security's acquisition of terminals, etc. for Benefits Automation System.

- The State Lottery will be hosted by SC#3.

- Labor and Industries gave an overview of their acquisition scheduled for October, the Medical Information & Payment System.

- IBM has been announced as the apparent successful bidder b~ the Department of Transportation.

-         Mike Woody, the Telecommunications Director for General Administration, presented current status of Communications Task Force. GA has retained a consultant to study the feasibility of a state owned microwave for both voice and data transmission.

-         Other Business:

The DPA Planning Conference is scheduled for September 17 & 18 at the U of W's Lake Wilderness Conference Facility. 

OLD BUSINESS:

- Personnel Liaison - no report.

- Office Automation - nothing to add to Appy's report.

- Forum '82 - Reuben Marti reported the Forum will be held at The Evergreen State College. Bob Bailey, of the Boeing Company and Anne Moe of Rainier Bank will be the keynote speakers. 

NEW BUSINESS: None.

CORRESPONDENCE: None.

NEXT M0NTH'S SPEAKER: Mr. Robert Bailey on Results of the Adhoc Planning Subcommittee.

The Meeting was adjourned.

Updated 8/01/82

ADPM BOARD OF DIRECTORS --

ADPM OFFICERS

-         Cliff Cotey, Program Chairman – WDPSC, EB-OI, 3-4360

-         Sunny Schomburg, Secretary/Treasurer – CPSE, EW-11, 3-1148

-         Galen Schmidke, Newsletter Editor -- Central Services Thurs. Co,. FQ-11, 753-8008

ADPM COMMITTEES

PERSONNEL LIAISON

ADP FORUM

ADPM SUB-COMMITTEES COMMITTEES

EXAMS, PANEL MEMBERS & REVIEW .

D. P. PROFESSIONAL SERIES SPECIFIC REGISTER REVIEW

SPECIFIC REGISTER REVIEW

D. P. MANAGERS MATRIX, POST- IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW

ADP STANDARDS REVIEW

OTHER COMMITTEES

HRD DP ADVISORY (Training)

OFFICE AUTOMATION TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (OATC)

Notes:

1) Don is the appointed ADPM representative to the HRD DP Advisory Committee.

2) Tom is the appointed ADPM representative to the OATC.