Roseville's IT department is moving into a brand-new building, and the city's CIO says the open concept office space will have the feel of a Silicon Valley tech startup.
Last fall the Old City Hall building at 316 Vernon Street was demolished and construction began on a new 84,000-square-foot, four-story building where government will be co-located with private-sector tenants.
Retail and restaurants will be located on the ground floor. A satellite campus of Sierra College will occupy the second floor, and the Roseville IT department will move onto the third floor. The fire department and other administrative offices will be on the top floor.
"We're very excited about moving into the new office, and it was made possible through this public-private partnership," said Hong Sae, Roseville's CIO.
The new location is across from City Hall and a public commons area that hosts concerts and other events. A seven-story parking garage also is being erected nearby. The IT department's new third-floor office will overlook the Roseville rail yards.
The IT department has been at its old digs — a fire station at 401 Oak Street — for more than 25 years, Hong said. The new facility on Vernon Street a few blocks to the north will give the IT department and its 45 staff members 21,000 square feet of floor space, about double what they have now.
Only a small fraction of that area — about 500 square feet — will house Roseville's main data center. The footprint is so small because about 80 percent of Roseville's IT systems are virtualized, Hong said. Each of the city's 16 departments has at least one or two of their systems running in the cloud, he said.
The new building and its state-of-the-art infrastructure will position Roseville to support emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, he said. And the office's open concept design also should encourage collaboration.
The IT department will begin moving into the new building next month, and it will continue through the rest of 2016. Roseville also will continue work on major technology projects mentioned in Roseville's $493.8 million budget approved on June 15 for fiscal year 2016-17:
• Public safety radio system replacement and tower relocation
• Financial and human resources information system replacement
• Enterprise asset management (Phase 3)
• Content management system replacement for city website
• Utility billing information system replacement
• Advanced metering infrastructure
• Parks & Recreation registration software
• Permitting system automation (Phase 2)
• Citywide phone upgrade
• Mobile tablet computing transition
Hong said they'll likely host an open house at the IT department's new office later this year.
