2.350.020 Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply to terms used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise:
(1) "Council" means the Snohomish county council;
(2) "Executive" means the Snohomish county executive;
(3) "Department" means the department of information technology;
(4) "Director and county chief information officer" means the director of the department of information technology;
(5) "Information processing" means the electronic capture, collection, storage, manipulation, transmission, retrieval, and presentation of information in the form of data, text, voice, or image and includes telecommunications and office automation functions;
(6) "Information services" means information processing, software operation, telecommunications, and office automation;
(7) "Equipment" means the machines, devices, and transmission facilities used in information processing, software operation, telecommunications, networking, and office automation;
(8) "Proprietary software" means that software offered for sale or license;
(9) "Telecommunications" means the transmission of information by wire, radio, optical cable, electromagnetic, or other means;
(10) "Network infrastructure" means the shared high-density portions of the county’s voice/data telecommunications transmission facilities. It includes specially conditioned high-speed communication carrier lines, modems, multiplexors, switches associated with such communications lines, and any equipment and software components necessary for management and control of the network infrastructure;
(11) "Purchased services" means services provided by a vendor to accomplish routine, continuing and necessary functions. This term includes, but is not limited to, services acquired for equipment maintenance and repair, operation of a physical plant, security, computer hardware and software installation and maintenance, data entry, programming services, training, consulting services and computer time-sharing;
(12) "Support services" are defined but not limited to the following:
(a) Copy and printing services that provide centralized photo copying and printing services for Snohomish county customers; and
(b) Mail service for Snohomish county customers; and
(c) Micrographic and digital scanning records management services that assist Snohomish county customers to provide for the proper control, production, disposition and retrieval of public records and reports in accordance with state archiving statutes. These services include surveying of records, planning for the conversion to digital formats, developing and enforcing standards for equipment, scanning to assure acceptable quality, eliminating or reducing reports, replacing computer-printed reports with computer-generated digital reports, and developing long-term management policies and procedures for records management;
(13) "Public agencies" means all state, municipal and quasi-municipal corporations and political subdivisions, and all agencies of such corporations and subdivisions authorized to contract separately and/or defined in RCW 39.34.020 of the interlocal cooperation act;
(14) "County department" means any Snohomish county office, executive department, court, board, commission or other organizational unit of the county;
(15) "Cash-on-delivery customer" means any person, business or other group not defined in this chapter;
(16) "Information technology report" means a plan adopted pursuant to SCC 2.350.070;
(17) "Strategic technology plan" means a plan adopted pursuant to SCC 2.350.065; (Added by Ord. 88-026 § 2, Apr. 27, 1988; Amended by Amended Ord. 11-004, Feb. 16, 2011, Eff date Feb. 28, 2011; Amended by Ord. 16-040, June 22, 2016, Eff date July 3, 2016; Amended by Ord. 16-079, Oct. 19, 2016, Eff date Nov. 10, 2016; Amended by Amended Ord. 22-007, Mar. 30, 2022, Eff date Apr. 10, 2022).