Collin County Receives Most Innovative Program Award

The Governmental Collectors Association of Texas, which seeks to enhance the ability of government entities to collect due revenue through education and innovation, has awarded Collin County with its 2007 Most Innovative Program Award, which is given to the organization selected as having most improved revenue collections through the development and implementation of innovative procedures, systems, or techniques in the past year.

Under the direction of Rodney Rhoades, Budget & Finance Director, and Mónika Arris, Assistant Budget & Finance Director, a multi-departmental team, along with all County Courts at Law Judges and clerks, worked for sixteen months to implement a system to streamline and increase the collection of court costs, fines, and attorney fees. The end results have been impressive: the average payment plan term for court collections has gone from 34.8 months to only 4.3 months, and the amount of money collected so far this year is almost three times the total expected.

None of this would have been possible without the following individuals:

Stacee Sloan, Lisa McGee, Severa Alacron, and Julie Gonzales (Collections)
Mike Jenkins, Mark Johnson, and Joe Fierro (IT)
County Court at Law Judges, especially Judge John Barry and Judge Jerry Lewis
County Court at Law Clerks
Bob Hughes and Gloria Bailey (Community Service and Corrections Department)
Jerry Higgins (Auditor’s Office)

Congratulations to all for a job very well done.

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