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C. 66

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	David O. Livingston, Sheriff-Coroner
Date:	May 12, 2015

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Synesis Inc.

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 05/12/2015

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor

ABSENT:

Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

Sandra Brown, 925-335-1553

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: May 12, 2015
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Sheriff-Coroner, or designee, to execute a contract with Synesis Inc., in an amount not to exceed $250,000 to provide programming, database mapping and maintenance services for the Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES) for the period May 12, 2015 through November 30, 2016.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Grant Funding of up to $200,000; remaining $50,000 ARIES Funding.

BACKGROUND:

The Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES) is a software application owned by Contra Costa County, and used by County and other law enforcement agencies to manage arrest and parolee data collected from law enforcement agencies. ARIES manages arrest and parole data provided by local law enforcement agencies that is stored on a County server. The purpose of this Contract is for Contractor to provide computer programming, database mapping, and maintenance services to the Sheriff's Office. ARIES is attempting to populate the East Bay Data warehouse with data from Alameda County and Solano County.

Contractor's services will include consultation, design, development, programming services, and maintenance and support for the Automated Regional Information Exchange System (ARIES). Contractor will update ARIES so that participating agency's data can be mapped to ARIES and used by ARIES participants.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this contract is not approved dozens of agency's will not be able to send and share their arrest and parole data to the ARIES East Bay data warehouse.

CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:

No impact.