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CITY OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA SELECTS HANSEN
8
Contact
Juli Rose
P: (916)
921-0883, ext. 3511
E: juli.rose@hansen.com
RANCHO CORDOVA, California - December 2,
2005 - Hansen Information Technologies
(Hansen®) today announced that it has been
awarded a $3.4 million contract with the City of
Long Beach, California to provide Hansen 8, their
latest Web-based Permit, Code Enforcement, and
Licensing solution. The agreement will help re-engineer
and consolidate business processes in Planning & Building,
Commercial Services (Business Licenses), Community
Development (Code Enforcement), Fire, Health, Police
and Public Works into a single integrated system.
In reviewing departmental requests for upgrading
current systems, the City of Long Beach realized
the need for interdepartmental coordination of systems
planning. A major outcome of the City's Information
Systems Master Plan developed in 2003 was the recommendation
to replace multiple legacy systems, including its
building permit and business licenses systems. The
Master Plan also provided support for the City's
recently enhanced Code Enforcement organization.
Hansen was ultimately selected through an extensive
competitively bid RFP process, involving many departmental
business owners and stakeholders.
"The City is embarking on a large-scale project
to implement an enterprise-wide system that will
support all of the City's permitting, licensing,
inspections, and code enforcement case management
needs," said Bruce Allen, Manager for the City's
Application Services Bureau. "The Hansen system
will empower us to migrate away from relatively inefficient
legacy systems and older department-specific applications.
We've been moving in this direction for a few years
guided by our IS Master Plan and to now be actually
starting the project is very exciting, not just from
the perspective of acquiring and implementing great
technology but because of the collaborative nature
of the project. It will effectively bring many City
departments together and confirm to them how much
their various functions really are interrelated and
part of a larger process!"
City of Long Beach, California
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Population
Area in Square Miles
Number of:
Parcels
Building Inspections
Code Inspections
Plan Checks
Building Permits Issued
Code Enforcement Cases
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491,000
52
110,000
84,450
83,400
3,615
15,624
7,682
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Last year, the
City of Long Beach, which occupies a land area of
approximately 52 square miles, with over 110,000
parcels, conducted 84,450 building inspections; 83,400
code inspections, including health; 3,615 plan checks;
issued 15,624 building permits; and initiated 7,682
code enforcement cases. With Hansen's Permitting,
Planning, Code Enforcement, Business License, Integrated
GeoMedia Information System (GIS), DynamicPORTAL,
Mobile Solution and Citizen's Request Management
modules, the City of Long Beach employees will be
able to provide more efficient counter, office, field
work force services. Best of all, citizens will be
able to submit service requests, permit and licensing
applications over the Web, saving countless man-hours
for City employees and citizens alike.
"We look forward to making Long Beach a premier
Community Development and Regulation (CDR) site,
and are dedicated to becoming a cornerstone of the
City's IT Master Plan," stated Bob Benstead,
Hansen's Business Unit Director for CDR. "With
the city-wide deployment of Hansen's permitting,
planning, code enforcement, and licensing solutions,
Long Beach will be able to streamline processes,
gain efficiencies, and provide top notch service
to its citizens."
Hansen 8's advanced 100% browser-based presentation
architecture allows government agencies, like Long
Beach, to provide users with a flexible, intuitive
and easy-to-use solution to enhance operations. Hansen
8 represents a 100% server-side deployment that provides
a rich client-side experience while eliminating the
need to load, maintain, or support application code
on a remote PC. Hansen 8's advanced architecture
adheres to the latest in next generation standards.
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