by | Jan 13, 2020 | Leadership, Newsletter, User Support
By Miriam Barcellona Ingenito, Director of FI$Cal Let’s kick off the New Year by celebrating your successful transition to the FI$Cal system. I understand we are all feeling the growing pains of this very difficult transition and yes, there is more work ahead. But...
by | Nov 4, 2019 | Leadership, Newsletter
By Joel Riphagen, Senior Advisor for FI$Cal Last month we reached an important milestone when Open FI$Cal, the state’s financial transparency portal, began displaying data from virtually every department transacting in the system. Getting all departments’ expenditure...
by | Sep 3, 2019 | Leadership, Newsletter
By Miriam Barcellona Ingenito, Director of FI$Cal We are continuously taking the pulse of system users to be sure we are improving and delivering the best customer service possible. Through our user-centered events such as Imagine FI$Cal, our townhalls and customer...
by | Oct 2, 2019 | Leadership, Newsletter
By Neeraj Chauhan, Chief Deputy Director of FI$Cal With 98 percent of the FI$Cal system completed and 20,000 users transacting in the system, now seems a good time to take stock of where we are with the remaining project build-out. Under Special Project Report 8, we...
by | Jul 2, 2019 | Leadership, Newsletter, User Support
I am excited to report that the 2019-20 state budget approved by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom includes increased funding for FISCal to provide additional support to departments and to get the main FI$Cal Project over the finish line! We...
by | Jun 3, 2019 | Leadership, Newsletter
Peter Vu joined the Department of FISCal (FI$Cal) as the Legal Counsel in May 2019. Previously, Peter worked as a litigation attorney for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), defending the state in tort and employment litigation. While at Caltrans,...
