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Goals and Objectives
Fiscal Years 2008-2009
Director's Office
Mission: Provides managerial, administrative support, information, computer, legal, and personnel services to all divisions of the department.
State Restoration Coordination Program Goal:
1. Ensure Montana's land and water resources benefit present and future
generations.
State Restoration Coordination Program Objectives:
- Collaborative Approach: Establish a collaborative approach to Montana's restoration activities among government, local, tribal, private and non-profit entities to maximize efficiency in allocation of funds and enhance Montana's natural environment.
- Information Clearinghouse: Serve as a clearinghouse for restoration information.
- Training and Education: Coordinate, develop, and recommend restoration training and educational opportunities for students, professionals, and work-force.
- Communications and Outreach: Provide public communication and outreach to share current and consistent restoration information with stakeholders.
- Economic Impacts: Estimate the economic impacts of restoration and increase economic development by creating restoration business and job opportunities.
- Policy: Identify and recommend incentives and policies to fund restoration activities.
Human Resource Bureau Goal:
1. Improve areas of service HRB provides such as compensation, performance evaluation, payroll administration, and position control so that they better support the business needs of the agency and are in compliance with federal and state laws, rules and regulations.
Human Resource Bureau Objectives:
- Compensation- Develop and implement pay plan that takes advantage of the flexibility Pay Plan 020 has to offer and better suits Department needs.
- Performance Evaluation- Develop and implement a web-based performance evaluation system.
- Payroll Administration-Seasonal time entry.
- Fair Labor Standards Act compliance – position review and update.
Fiscal Bureau Goal:
1. Ensure proper and timely collection and distribution of revenue earned.
Fiscal Bureau Objectives:
- Deposit funds daily with distribution made in a timely manner.
- Reconcile deposit database (TLMS) to SABHRS Financial system
- Reconcile SABHRS Financial system to program documentation
- Continued enhancements to TLMS.
- Continued training of Director's Office and agency staff on governmental accounting in regards to revenue recognition and reconciliation.
Fiscal Bureau Goal:
2. Ensure that the department's fiscal management practices are consistent with "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles" (GAAP).
Fiscal Bureau Objectives:
- Work with Dept. of Administration State Accounting Division to implement accounting for new or modified programs.
- Work with agency divisions to improve communication of information required for accounting entries.
- Minimize or eliminate findings and recommendations on financial audits.
Fiscal Bureau Goal:
3. Improve and expand documentation of internal controls & processes.
Fiscal Bureau Objectives:
- Continued analysis of staff duties and processes.
- Continued review and update of staff desk and instruction manuals.
- Continued assessment agency wide of areas of financial risk and how to minimize those risks.
Procurement and Contracting Bureau Goal:
1. Create new power point training presentation for contracting with Grey Box Contracts.
Procurement and Contracting Bureau Objectives:
1) Train agency contracting personnel in the uses of the grey box contract.
2) Instruction on which clauses to include under different circumstances.
3) Instruction on review processes.
4) Instruction on contract administration.
Procurement and Contracting Bureau Goal:
2. Continue to offer the full day “Basic Purchasing” training to DNRC employees.
Procurement and Contracting Bureau Objectives:
1) Keep all employees apprised of the procurement policies of DNRC.
2) Raise the delegated dollar limit to $5000 for field personnel.
Procurement and Contracting Bureau Goal:
3. Establish follow up procedures using Outlook calendar to monitor expiration dates for contracts, worker's compensation and insurance documents.
Procurement and Contracting Bureau Objectives:
1) To be able to notify end users in 30 days in advance of PO's/ contracts for services expiring.
2) Following up on expiration dates of worker's compensation and general liability insurance and contract security.
Information Technology Bureau Goal:
1. Deploy the latest approved version of Windows for users.
Information Technology Bureau Objective:
1) Service to staff – provide high quality IT support to staff.
- Efficiency – reduce help desk calls through better staff training
- Adaptability – Determine how ITB can adapt to agency IT needs
Information Technology Bureau Goal:
2. Continue development of GIS services for DNRC and its constituents.
Information Technology Bureau Objective:
1) Service to Citizens – develop at least one new service with a GIS component for use in state government or by constituents.
2) Efficiency – improve the operation of GIS staff across the agency.
3) Adaptability – Find ways to help DNRC adapt to new methods of service delivery
Information Technology Bureau Goal:
3. Develop one new eGovernment Service for DNRC each year of the Biennium.
Information Technology Bureau Objective:
1) Service to Citizens – provide methods for citizens and businesses to interact with the agency online
2) Efficiency – reduce the time and overhead needed to process transactions with our constituents.
3) Adaptability – Find ways to help DNRC adapt to new methods of service delivery
