1. NACCED 2011 ANNUAL CONFERENCE CRAIG GOEBEL “IDIS TOUCH” SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 2:15 PM

2. Community Development Program Craig Goebel, Director IDIS Touch

3. 33 IDIS “Touch Panelist - Craig Goebel Gwinnett County - The Place 3

4. 44 Gwinnett County – The Place Located 35 miles NE of Atlanta Founded in 1818 Named for Button Gwinnett – Signer of Declaration of Independence 2 nd most populous county in Georgia 433 square miles 15 incorporated municipalities. 4

5. 55 Gwinnett County - The People 1970 Pop. 72,349 – 94.8% White 2000 Pop. 588,488 – 72.7% White 2010 Pop. 805,321 –44% White –23% African-American –20% Hispanic –10% Asian –3% Two or More Races 5

6. 66 Gwinnett County – The Government 5 member elected Board of Commissioners County Administrator oversees the daily operations 4,800 County Employees Uses out-sourcing of some services, such as management of HUD Entitlement Grants 6

7. 77 Gwinnett County – The Government – Community Development Program Is a Program of the Department of Financial Services Administers HUD Entitlement Grants Staffed by W. Frank Newton, Inc. since 1986 [11 of WFN’s 38 employees work at its Gwinnett County office] 7

8. 88 IDIS In Gwinnett Used IDIS since IDIS was activated in 1996 Participated in the dial-up/”dumb terminal” era Community Development Program staff perform setups and beneficiary/accomplishments reporting Grants staff in Gwinnett County Department of Financial Services make payments and perform drawdowns. 8

9. 99 Standard IDIS Report Uses  Reconciliations of IDIS/SAP Accounting System  Manage/oversight of programmatic timeliness  Evaluate County productivity against ConPlan metrics  Evaluate productivity of Subrecipients against ConPlan and Subrecipient Agreement metrics 9

10. 10 Standard IDIS Report Uses - Page 2  Data source for special reports to public and elected officials [e.g. just-completed Silver Anniversary CDBG Report – 1986-2010]  Evaluate staff productivity  Use data from Excel versions of IDIS reports to craft custom reports for local use 10

11. 11 Linkages to Local Systems for IDIS  Data in WFN-developed Action Plan project descriptions [Excel format] mirrors data required in IDIS  Planned on-line reporting from Subrecipients which will feed into planned local database from which data for IDIS will be generated. New updates to IDIS may simplify. 11

12. 12 Grantee Wish List for IDIS  ConPlan enhancements to permit uploading of setup information into IDIS, as was permitted under Community 2020 software  Capacity to upload actual beneficiary data from Access 2010 database or Excel 2010 12

13. 13 Grantee Wish List for IDIS – Page 2  Add a new icon in drawdown setup process to permit return to prior screen to make corrections to line items without losing data for other activities  Creation of reports in a format permitting their insertion directly into the narrative [prefer an option to download report in a generic file format recognized by WORD, not just pdf or Excel] 13

14. Contact: Craig Goebel, Director Gwinnett County Community Development Program 575 Old Norcross Road, Suite A Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046-4367 Telephone: 770.822.5430 Email: craig.goebel@gwinnettcounty.com