December 2015

In Memory
We were all saddened by the loss of the ACC's Gary Abraha on 11/17  as the result of a car accident. Giebrehiwet, or Gary as he was know to us, was originally from the African nation of Eritrea and moved to the US in 1997 and attended Grant High. He will be missed not only by his ACC "family," but by all of us who had the pleasure of working with him.

Please Join Us at the Lake Oswego University Commencement Ceremony
Staff members from all city departments will celebrate the completion of the two-year MPAL (Master of Public Administration - Lite) program. The commencement ceremony will be from noon to 1:00 on Thursday December 10 at City Hall in the City Council Chambers. Enjoy cake, a commencement speech by Lake Oswego Review Editor Gary Stein, and congratulate your co-workers.

And speaking of celebrations, don't forget the employee Holiday Luncheon on December 15 from 11:00 to 1:00 at the Palisades Building.

Lean Oswego

Newspaper Indexing    Librarians, with the assistance of trained and experienced volunteers, have streamlined the indexing of local newspapers by entering data directly from the print paper and microfilm into the indexing program, rather than hand marking hard copies of the paper and then having them entered. This should speed up the process significantly.

Tracking Police Training and Equipment  The Police Department spends hours each month tracking equipment and training. The Police Department needed a system that would simplify the record keeping process, alert in advance for certification and equipment expirations, keep a precise inventory, and be accessible to every officer.

A new software system being implemented by the police department can do all those things, and more. By using barcodes, everything from TASERS to training attendance can be scanned. For instance, when new officers are hired, they will be issued a kit containing all weapons and uniform items. This kit will be auto-populated into the database and connected to the officer throughout their employment with the department. The scanner system will either recognize a product barcode or we can affix our own. We scan it and it’s in.

This program connects to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) training records and will upload training hours automatically. Alerts via email will be sent to the individual when certification maintenance is nearing a deadline or advancement. In addition, the Police Department can issue barcoded ID cards to employees, using the card printing system they already have. When they attend in-service training, they just scan themselves in and the training roster sends itself to DPSST.  The department plans to roll-out their new software tracking program sometime during late Fall or early Winter.

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