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Utah County IT director seeks training funds and three programmers to address growing demand
Summary
Information systems director Patrick Moore asked the Utah County Commission for $17,000 for a Pluralsight enterprise training subscription, a mandate of 40 supervisor-approved training hours per IT staffer, three new programming positions and a new lead/DBA role to reduce continuity risks and meet rising departmental requests.
Patrick Moore, information systems director for Utah County, told commissioners in a budget work session that the county’s IT team has delivered several recent technology upgrades but is now stretched thin and needs additional staff and training to sustain and scale services.
Moore said the department has adopted DocuSign integrated with the county’s BMI document system to enable secure digital approvals and introduced online credit-card payments for the treasurer’s office. He described a county-built election-results dashboard that turned around results within minutes on primary night and a new QR-based ballot-pickup tracking dashboard that logs who picked up a ballot box and when, improving chain-of-custody visibility for elections.
“The mission is to be a trusted partner in providing technological innovation that enables departments as they efficiently and effectively serve the county and citizens,” Moore said, framing his budget requests around continuity and measurable productivity gains.
Moore provided staffing and workload numbers: the programming group has 12 full-time programmers…
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