(A) The Committee shall develop and recommend to the City Council for adoption an Information Services Master Plan for the evaluation of information technology within the city government; the Committee shall recommend amendments of the Master Plan when appropriate. The Master Plan should be amended by the City Council at appropriate intervals to keep it current, but no amendment may be made without the evaluation of the Committee. The Master Plan should contain city-wide objectives such as the following:
(1) Data and software within the city will be shared to the extent possible; and
(2) The city will develop an integrated communications network for delivery of data, voice, image, and video information.
(B) The Committee shall study and establish standards governing the city's acquisition and use of information technology. These city-wide standards should include but not be limited to the following:
(1) Methodologies for project management and system development;
(2) Centrally coordinated spending for equipment, software contracts, and consultants, to assure consistency with the city's Information Services Master Plan;
(3) Compatibility standards for equipment, software languages, distributed-processing policy, security control, and data base management;
(4) Standards for all network services and interface requirement;
(5) Data base standards for compatibility, consistency, retrieval, and consolidation;
(6) Standards for quality assurance governing consulting, advising, monitoring, and auditing distributed processing activities;
(7) Standards for disaster recovery; and
(8) Standards for an information systems security program.
(C) The Committee shall review and, working with the Chief Administrative Officer, assure that a data administration function is implemented and is effectively being performed.
(D) Each city department shall prepare an information systems plan annually and submit it to the Committee for approval. In addition to reviewing these annual plans, the Committee shall also review, on an ongoing basis, all proposed information services activities for adherence to the Information Services Master Plan and to city-wide standards. No significant change in type or level of information services activities and no significant information services initiative shall occur without the approval of the Committee. The Committee shall establish a minimum level of information services activities which shall require review and approval by the Committee.
('74 Code, § 1-21-2) (Ord. 46-1990)