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Sarasota News Leader October 18, 2013 Page 58 to coordinate with the county-operated Consolidated Communication Center. The police say the system is in use by agencies throughout the country. The HMIS gives an identifying number to each person whose name is entered into it, allowing the software to track the services the person receives. However, the success of that tracking depends on all agencies using The system to be replaced was set up in 1988, the system. In Sarasota County, less than half and it is not compatible with the new county of the social service agencies are tied into equipment. Once the software is up and run- HMIS. ning, the annual expense for the license will Sarasota would provide $25,000 to the run $79,000. Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness, At the other end of the spectrum, the city part of a $175,000 annual cost, to use the softwill be authorizing a new software system to ware. The balance of the funding is to come track the services provided to the homeless. from Manatee County, various federal grants The federal government requires that any and service providers. agency receiving federal money for the home- The Partnership is required to hold at least 24 less be linked into the Homeless Management training sessions on the software, so nonprofits can join the network and learn how to use Information Services (HMIS) database. A chart in a presentation on the county's 2050 Plan explains tenets of the New Urbanism approach to development. Image courtesy Sarasota County