Office of Administrative Services

This office provides human resources, budget and financial administration, administrative audits, financial assurance, computer resources, and facilities support and maintenance to the TCEQ.

Dorca Zaragoza-Stone, Deputy Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax

Budget and Planning
Chief Financial Officer
Financial Administration
Human Resources and Staff Development
Information Resources
Support Services

Office Organizational Chart

The Office of Administrative Services provides service and support to agency staff and external customers, supplying the essential administrative infrastructure required to maintain business operations. Services include:

budget and financial administration and contracting with historically underutilized businesses;
human-resources management and staff development;
information-technology and document management; and
management and support of assets, physical property, and the Historically Underutilized Business Program.

Budget and Planning

Elizabeth Sifuentez, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax

The Budget and Planning Division is responsible for developing and monitoring the agency’s annual operating budget. Staff members prepare, submit, and monitor all of the agency’s federal grant applications and work plans, centralizing grants management in support of TCEQ programs. The division also develops and submits the agency’s strategic plan, biennial legislative appropriations request, and quarterly performance reports to the governor and the Legislature. In addition, its staff conducts special analyses to monitor the achievement of agency goals and priorities.

Chief Financial Officer

Liz Day, Chief Financial Officer
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax

The Chief Financial Officer's division oversees all budgeting and financial issues in the agency. This office oversees the development of the agency's strategic plan, biennial appropriations request, the annual operating budget, and quarterly performance reports to the legislature and the governor. On fiscal matters, this division is the point of contact for the TCEQ's oversight agencies. The division is involved in bill implementation and preparing fiscal notes that have revenue requirements. It also reviews the annual financial report, monitors revenue and expenditures, estimates revenue collections, and provides fiscal analysis and reporting.

Financial Administration

Eddie Molina, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax

The Financial Administration Division is responsible for managing the agency’s financial transactions, ensuring the integrity of its accounting records, and maintaining adequate internal controls to safeguard its financial assets. This division is responsible for payroll and timekeeping, payments to employees and vendors, billing and collection of fees and federal grants, centralized revenue management, financial reporting, and financial assurance. In addition, this division is responsible for the agency's annual financial report.

Human Resources and Staff Development

Patti Machac, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax

The Human Resources and Staff Development Division provides a wide range of employment-related services. For example, the division recruits qualified staff to fill vacancies, administers employee-benefit programs and special leave programs, ensures compliance with state and federal laws on equal opportunity and fair labor practices, offers policy guidance to employees, administers employee programs, supplies human resources data to agency decision makers, and offers training to help employees advance along career paths and formalized career ladders. As part of its training responsibilities, the division surveys and adopts new technology, such as computer-based training.

Information Resources

Brandon Harris, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax

The Information Resources Division provides information technology support for enterprise applications and data systems that support the agency mission. The division is responsible for customer service, software development, project management, the provisioning of IT hardware/software, and operation of the physical IT infrasturcture at teh TCEQ's Austin and regional locations. The division provides technical leadership in software development and enhancement services for enterprise information systems as well as IT project management and business analysis to agency programs. The division also administers the agency’s central records system through a contract with a commercial records-management firm and coordinates the agency’s response to public information requests. The division develops IT budgets, plans, and reports for agency management and other oversight agencies.

Support Services

Patricia Fontenot, Director
Staff: Address/Phone/Fax

The Support Services Division is responsible for physical property management, fleet/supply management, procurement and contracting activities, coordination of the Historically Underutilized Business Program, and contract workforce monitoring. The division also reviews and processes health, safety, and security concerns; conducts safety training and inspections; and provides centralized receiving and distribution services. In addition, the division provides copying and bulk printing services, mail and messenger services, facilities liaison services, telephone services, maintenance of telecommunications equipment and wiring, and management of agency-wide utilities and lease program.

See also:
Selling Goods and Services to the TCEQ (GI-238)

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