The following grants were awarded to the Department of Information Technology.  DoIT is actively seeking grant opportunities at all levels of government.

2006

2005-2006 NYS Real Property Tax Administration Technology Improvement Grant Program (Office of Real Property Services)

Westchester County GIS received ORPS funding to conduct a comprehensive study, involving county and local government officials, to evaluate opportunities for countywide tax map administration and standardization.

NYS Library Preservation Grant

$14,700 from the NYS Library Preservation Grant Fund to provide funds for a conservationist to analyze the warehouse space at 2199 in preparation for two additional archival vaults.

NYS Records Management Grant

$107,937 from the NYS Archives Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund to improve the inactive records management program.

2005

NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Grant Program

Westchester County GIS received funding to inventory and map vacant properties along the Hudson River which will be used to further open space planning initiatives at the regional, county, and municipal levels.

NYS Records Management Grant
The Archives and Records Center received an award of $59,934.00 from the NYS Archives Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund to improve security and streamline public access to the Planning Department's Historical Aerial Photograph Collection, 1925-2000, while preserving these valuable and irreplaceable records.

  
FGDC Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) Grant Program
Westchester County GIS received $30,000 FGDC funding to conduct metadata training and research, develop ArcIMS applications for local governments, and provide information through the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS).

2004
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Technology Grant
Awarded $197,895 by the U.S. Department of Justice in support of DoIT’s nationally recognized Shared Criminal Justice Data Warehouse project. This application will allow county and local criminal justice agencies to exchange critical data via a friendly Internet browser based application. Later phases of the project include exchanging data via this same application with State and Federal Agencies.

NYS Records Management Grant

$10,144.00 from the NYS Archives Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund, disaster recovery funds to restore critical files stored in the Labs and Research offices that were water damaged as the result of a frozen pipe bursting.

2003
NYS Records Management Grant
$11,576.00 from the NYS Archives Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund to develop the most beneficial and cost-efficient process for imaging the county's 14 sets of historical aerial photographs (over 6,000), thereby allowing their continued use by the public through an Intranet site and workstation in the Planning Department's offices and providing for their preservation in the climate-controlled, secure vaults of the County Archives.

2000
NYS Records Management Grant
$15,828.00 from the NYS Archives Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund to develop the Virtual Archives, a Web site that would bring the county's rich primary historical records online. Collaborating with the Westchester County Historical Society, the City of White Plains and the Town of Eastchester, the Archives produced a pilot segment focused on the Civil War Era in Westchester County.

1999

Grant to Purge Outdated Legal Files
In 1999, the Records Center unit, working with the County Clerk’s Office, received grant funds totaling $20,300 to conduct a purge of outdated legal files that after examination may be destroyed. 1,657 cu. ft. of County Clerk files were examined. The purge resulted in the destruction of 28% of that number or 473 cu. ft.

1995

Digitization of Property Maps Collection Grant
The Archives division of the County Clerk’s Office, working with the then County Information Systems Dept., received a grant in 1995 for $100,000 to complete a project that had begun in 1989, the digitization of the property maps collection that included a substantial number of municipal, zoning, environmental, water-shed and land-use maps. This grant provided funds to an outside vendor to scan 22,400 maps dated 1910-1966 and to allow IS to develop an interface to enable the public to view the scanned map images on the same type of County Clerk workstation with the deeds and mortgage images and their indexes.

1994

Geographic Information System Cooperative Grant

In 1994, the Department of Planning received a cooperative grant for $72,249 to develop an entry level information system in conjunction with the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, using as a model the design and implementation of Westchester County’s Geographic Information System (GIS). The system was set up to operate within the pc environment with a desktop GIS software package designed specifically for the non-technical user, and created a digital tax parcel base map linked to tax parcel information maintained by the NYS Division of Equalization and Assessment.