Earlier this year, the campus’s central maintenance and construction units stopped the practice of charging upfront for cost estimates on recharge work. Now, Facilities Management has rolled out the first in what will be an assortment of online estimators — allowing departments to do their own estimates for free.
The first estimator, for painting, is up and running on Facilities Management’s website.
“The painting estimator is for paint jobs in administrative space only, but additional estimators will be developed for other job estimates over the coming year,” according to a news release from Facilities Management.
See new prepurchasing system at town hall
The campus’s new, online system for prepurchasing will be demonstrated at a town hall on Thursday, Aug. 16, the project’s steering committee announced.
The town hall is scheduled from 9 to 11 a.m. in 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences Building.
The Administrative Application Development Initiative is offering the system to all campus units. And, while there is no requirement to use it, the system may be hard to resist.
The initiative’s announcement describes a user-friendly, Web-based system with electronic routing and e-mail alerts to designated approvers, thus eliminating the need to move paper documents across the campus.
Online security tutorial offered
The Davis campus’s chief information officer, Peter M. Siegel, is encouraging faculty and staff to complete a tutorial on online information security awareness.
“It is designed to raise awareness about best security practices that will help prevent compromises, intentional or not, of sensitive personal and university data,” said Siegel, vice provost of .
The voluntary course is sponsored by the UC Office of the President and available through the (search for "information security awareness," and look for the e-course with Code No. DAC-TT0900).
The course should take about 30 to 40 minutes to complete, Siegel said, adding that everyone who goes through the training will be eligible for $50 gift cards, courtesy of the Office of the President. The cards will be allocated monthly in random drawings through December.
Questions should be directed to Robert Ono, campus IT security coordinator, raono@ucdavis.edu.
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