2017 National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award: County Administration and Management
Pierce County won a NACo Award for using biometric time clocks to streamline elections. During the 2016 Presidential Election,the county needed a secure and more efficient way to check in hundreds of temporary election workers. Biometric clocks allow extra hires to quickly check in using any finger, thereby saving Pierce County more than $10,000 a year.
2017 NACo Achievement Award: Information Technology
The IT Division won a second award for successfully upgrading over 3,200 PCs and 1,000 mobile devices to Office 365, as well as migrating 4,500 email accounts to Outlook and a new email archiving system. Pierce County IT was recognized in the industry for a near perfect email archive data migration.