Vote: approved

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6. EMPLOYEE AWARDS FOR REWARDING IDEAS PROGRAMS Present the following employees with awards from the Rewarding Ideas Program: Jackie Griffin-Nour, $2,500 Correctional Health Services : Proposed a change in practice allowing CHS staff to dismiss grievances based on specific criteria. CHS reduced the total percentage of External Grievance Appeals sent for disposition to the External Referee resulting in a undetermined savings to Maricopa County. New method greatly improved services for external referee reviews of the CHS external medical grievance appeals. Adoption of this suggestion resulted in a tangible savings of $12,548. Catherine Lucero, $2,500 Recorder ’ s Office : Proposed researched vendor interest in the unused equipment. MICROFILM VENDOR LIN-CUM INC expressed interest and willingness to trade their microfilming services. After determining a fair market value of $24,000 for the equipment, the vendor and the Maricopa County Recorder ’ s office entered into an agreement to trade the equipment for microfilm conversion services. Adoption of this suggestion resulted in a tangible savings of $24,000. Gary Thomas Bilotta, $2,500 Elections Office : Proposed a way to create legal descriptions electronically rather than having to write them all by hand. With this new application, it called for the process to be created electronically within one hour, saving time and materials. The new method resulted in a tangible savings of $15,050. Gus Martinez, $1,465 Air Quality : Proposed that all approved dust permits be scanned and emailed directly to the customers instead of standard USPS. Emailed documents resulted in immediate delivery of permits to our constituents instead of the average 3-5 business days. Further, this newly proposed method promised to provide a means of saving materials, time and improve customer service. This new method resulted in $7,894. Mark Liem, $2,500, Justice Court Administration : Proposed attaching a number of minutes to daily armored car service at the justice courts. Most of the justice courts are located in regional court facilities and share common secured office space, with offices located right next to each other. This new method provided a substantial annual tangible cost savings of $31,620. Barbara Frerichs-Mendoza , $1,250 and Terry Thompson, $1,250 Recorder ’ s Office : Proposed a same-day document recording via an interactive recording KIOSK service to the public in outlying municipalities. These services would house a touch screen PC, scanner, printer, credit card reader, audio and visual components at a fraction of the cost of a satellite office. This new technique resulted in a tangible savings of $336,546. Mark Liem, $2,234 Justice Court Administration : Proposed an idea to use a small business online banking product at the justice courts. By utilizing the online bill payment feature, the cost to secure the accounts against fraud has been reduced. The accounts are not used to write any checks, and the accounts are blocked from posting any checks to them. The first year savings to the county from not ordering blank check stock is $4,800, and the additional annual savings to secure against fraud is $11,172. (C-20-12-032-M-00)