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ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT, ANALYSIS, and INVESTIGATION
LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

SUBJECT:
The State's Information Technology Infrastructure

PURPOSE:
The purpose of this hearing is to examine the implications of the information revolution for state government.

Albany

Tuesday
May 22, 2012
11:00 a.m.
Roosevelt Hearing Room C
Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor
Albany, New York

ORAL TESTIMONY WILL BE BY INVITATION ONLY

New advances in information technology may make it possible to achieve significant increases in government efficiency, fiscal responsibility, and openness while providing better services and reducing regulatory burdens. This hearing will examine how New York State's agencies and municipalities are currently using advances in information technology and how such advances can be used to create jobs and serve the public more efficiently and more responsively.

Persons wishing to present pertinent testimony to the Committee at the above hearing should complete and return the enclosed reply form as soon as possible. It is important that the reply form be fully completed and returned so that persons may be notified in the event of emergency postponement or cancellation.

Oral testimony will be limited to 10 minutes' duration. In preparing the order of witnesses, the Committee will attempt to accommodate individual requests to speak at particular times in view of special circumstances. These requests should be made on the attached reply form or communicated to Committee staff as early as possible.

Twenty copies of any prepared testimony should be submitted at the hearing registration desk. The Committee would appreciate advance receipt of prepared statements.

In order to further publicize these hearings, please inform interested parties and organizations of the Committee's interest in hearing testimony from all sources.

In order to meet the needs of those who may have a disability, the Assembly, in accordance with its policy of non-discrimination on the basis of disability, as well as the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made its facilities and services available to all individuals with disabilities. For individuals with disabilities, accommodations will be provided, upon reasonable request, to afford such individuals access and admission to Assembly facilities and activities.

Steve Englebright
Steve Englebright
Member of Assembly
Chair
Committee on Governmental Operations
George Latimer
George Latimer
Member of Assembly
Chair
Legislative Commission on Government Administration
Andrew Hevesi
Andrew Hevesi
Member of Assembly
Chair
Committee on Oversight, Analysis, and Investigation



PUBLIC HEARING REPLY FORM

Persons wishing to present testimony at the public hearing on The State's Information Technology Infrastructure are requested to complete this reply form as soon as possible and mail, email or fax it to:

Emily Mercurio
Committee Assistant
Assembly Committee on Governmental Operations
Alfred E. Smith Building, 22nd Floor
80 South Swan Street
Albany, New York 12248
Email: mercurioe@assembly.state.ny.us
Phone: (518) 455-4355
Fax: (518) 455-7250
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