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Administrative Services FY 2014-15 Highlights

• Developed and administered a $234 million budget focused on maintaining
services and programs.

• Hired 37 new employees (including nine temporary employees), promoted
15 employees, celebrated 14 retirements and accepted 12 resignations.

• Continued to limit spending and streamline workflows, while addressing
deferred roadwork projects as much as possible in light of declining state
and federal funding.
• Conducted a disaster exercise
• Completed major software upgrades to all employee computers. focusing on a response to a
damaging earthquake.
• Conducted training on cultural diversity, communications, professional
development and front-office support. • Developed emergency
communications procedures
• Brought the for radio and personnel
Portland State communications.
University
Business • Continued to streamline
Communications processes including contract
program to the handling and Facility Permit
County, represented processing times, implementing
Washington County standardized benchmarks in
on the NW Public Employees Diversity Conference planning committee Assurances paperwork, and
for its annual state conference, rewrote equipment training plans for 48 developing a flexible system for
pieces of equipment, reinstated lead worker training, and successfully field inspection.
enticed Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to conduct its safety
certificate testing at the Walnut Street Center. • Concluded the mapping of active
Facility Permit locations in
Asset Browser.

• Handled 178 open Public
Improvement Contract case files,
consistent with the number of files
in FY 2013-14.

• Balanced the Administration
Deposit for all active accounts,
resulting in no deficit accounts
for the second consecutive year.

• Finalized the road and bridge
inspections plan and provided
training to all inspectors.

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