Mineola, NY-- Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi, joined by Deputy County Executive Anthony Cancelleri and Director of Human Resources John Donnelly, today announced a new County initiative, which is expected to save the County millions of dollars by reducing payment for work that is not worked, errors from manual entry of attendance, unauthorized leave time, and other problems related to the inefficient, manual, bloated, paper-based system.

The current Nassau County payroll system is manually intensive, antiquated and outdated and no longer serves the purposes of the County. The current paper-based system requires over 220 employees to spend either all or most of their day recording time and leave issues using typewriters, carbon paper and manual record keeping. This system also leaves room for abuse and makes oversight and control very difficult.

"This new system is a key step forward in our efforts to make Nassau County government smarter and more efficient, and will also help rid the County of waste, fraud and abuse," County Executive Suozzi said. "This initiative will save the County millions while increasing productivity and efficiencies in the workplace, and savings that will positively impact Nassau County taxpayers."

The proposed system is a multi-million dollar initiative that will allow the County to accurately measure and oversee all employees time and labor issues. The proposed system will also result in a new payroll system and, for the first time ever, a time and labor system. It will reduce the payroll error rate, unauthorized leave time, payroll inflation, inaccurate calculation of hours, and payroll-processing time. The new system will also allow the over 220 employees who currently manually record time and leave issues to use their time more constructively.

The Request for Proposal will be released in the upcoming weeks for an outside systems management consulting firm to do the following: conduct a comprehensive needs assessment and overall requirements definition, assist the county in selecting a vendor, act as the systems integrator for this project, work with the 47 individual departments in assessing their individual needs as it relates to time and labor issues. The County will then, in the first quarter of 2005, seek a vendor to implement an automated time, leave and payroll system during the course of that year.