From owner-vapsaps@virginiainteractive.org Wed Jun 11 08:43:25 2008 X-SBRS: None X-HAT: Group: RELAYLIST, Policy: $RELAYED Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: FW: VITA Integrated Services Program (ISP) Regional Expansions Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:41:26 -0400 Message-ID: <D0ACCB076CEC8A4FA39D52697E1D773B0118C40F@DITEXCHANGE3-CL.ditlan.dit.state.va.us> Thread-Topic: VITA Integrated Services Program (ISP) Regional Expansions Thread-Index: AcjLB3y/7Lyef9nzQ8iTswvGFT86DgAtwkDgAAB+PrA= From: "Marzolf, Steve" <Steve.Marzolf@vita.virginia.gov> To: <vapsaps@virginiainteractive.org> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jun 2008 12:41:48.0268 (UTC) FILETIME=[83A272C0:01C8CBC0] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by kasumi.vipnet.org id m5BCfsGL014917 Precedence: bulk Just over two years, VITA created the Integrated Services Program (ISP) to better coordinate outreach to local governments for public safety communications, GIS services, radio engineering and other VITA services. The goal was to make it easier for localities to get the help they need...whatever help they need, without having to navigate a maze of different divisions and contacts at VITA. The regional coordinators (Pokey Harris, Donna Brown, Sam Keys and Chris Hardesty) and the VGIN Local Government Manager (Lyle Hornbaker) have been our front line for providing these services. As the services they support have expanded, the demand for services has increased tremendously, too. We are now at a point that we need to expand the outreach effort in order to maintain the high quality service that you have become accustomed to receiving. As we looked at increasing the number of regions, we did not want to create yet another regional scheme. As a result, we have adopted the Homeland Security Regions developed by the Office of Commonwealth Preparedness (OCP), which are coincident with the State Police divisions. Since Lyle actually lives in the Tidewater region (Region V), he has agreed to take on this region. Pokey, Donna, Sam and Chris will continue to serve the regions in which they are located. We have developed a map (http://www.va911.org/pdf/ISPRegionalRepAreas.pdf) that depicts the transition from four to the seven regions. As you will note, there are two regions that do not have names associated with them, Northern Virginia (Region VII) and Appomattox (Region III). We are currently advertising these positions on the Virginia Jobs website and encourage anyone interested to apply. We are very excited about this change since it will expand our ability to assist you. Together we have accomplished much. We have just concluded the second imagery acquisition and have distributed it to all localities. We are nearly completed with the implementation of wireline and wireless E-911 throughout the Commonwealth. Through the Wireless E-911 Services Board grant program, about $20 million has been dedicated to your local and regional E-911 and GIS projects that have had a dramatic impact on the services provided to citizens in need. And the list goes on and on, but now is not a time slow down. The demands of our citizens, the rapid pace of technology advances and the never ending pinch of reduced resources continues to drive us forward. We are here for you, so please let us know how we can help... Steve Marzolf Integrated Services Program Director Virginia Information Technologies Agency Commonwealth Enterprise Solutions Center 11751 Meadowville Lane Chesterfield, Virginia 23836 (804) 416-6019 (voice) (866) 4-VA-E911 (toll free) (804) 416-6353 (fax) steve.marzolf@vita.virginia.gov