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Tucson Area GIS Cooperative
June Meeting Agenda – 06/20/2006
3:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
COT IT - Pueblo Room
481 W Paseo Redondo
Attendees: Linda Coon - PC DSD, Steve Whitney - PC DOT, Mike Helies – COT ES, Autumn Figueroa – TPD, Blanca Espino – TDOT, Laura Pinnas – TEP, Darren Douglas – COT IT, Bret Canale – Town of Marana, Peter Johnson – TDOT, Jim Robinson – COT Parks & Recreation, Cody Cohn – DMAFB, Craig Erlandson – DMAFB, Anna Sanchez – COT UPD, Mary Szczepanski – COT UPD, Brian Stein – Town of Marana, Joe Letrick – Town of Marana, Gage Andrews – COT IT,
Agenda
1. The FY 2006-2007 GIS Cooperative Leadership Vote - Larry
- GIS Coop members, please join me in welcoming the new GIS Cooperative Leadership for FY 2006-2007! These six members have graciously volunteered to do two months of meetings each:
Manny Rosas – Pima Association of Governments
Dave Koss – Tucson Department of Finance
Autumn Figueroa – Tucson Police Department
Steve Whitney – Pima County Department of Transportation
Joe Lettrick – Town of Marana
Blanca Espino – Tucson Department of Transportation
- They will be conducting the monthly meetings accordingly:
July 2006 - Manny Rosas
August 2006 - Manny Rosas
September 2006 - Dave Koss
October 2006 - Autumn Figueroa
November 2006 - Steve Whitney
December 2006 - Steve Whitney
January 2007 - Joe Lettrick
February 2007 - Joe Lettrick
March 2007 - Dave Koss
April 2007 - Autumn Figueroa
May 2007 - Blanca Espino
June 2007 - Blanca Espino
- We are confident this will be a temporary measure until an agreement on a more
permanent solution to manage the GIS Cooperative’s affairs can be reached
- Congratulations to this new GIS Cooperative Leadership “team”! We wish each and every
one of them the best of luck in their new roles! Many thanks to all of you!
2. GIS Cooperative Geodatabase Subcommittee – Steve Whitney
- PCDOT may set up a formal SDE training class
- Foci:
- Jurisdictional/regional standards for data models
- Parcels, streets, addressing, zoning
- Next meeting will include starting work on developing a regional data model, zoning data
model, parcel data model, etc.
- If you have questions concerning the concept of a regional geodatabase model or have
some suggestions, please email Steve Whitney at Steve.Whitney@dot.pima.gov
- Thanks to Steve for his update!
3. Surprise Announcement – Larry
- Christine O’Connor, Deputy Director of the COT IT department, is retiring from the City of Tucson after July 31st. As some of you may know, Christine has always been a strong advocate for the GIS Cooperative, gently nudging us towards becoming a more mature organization. She has provided us with generous amounts of encouragement and support in our organizational objectives. Her counsel and guidance will be sorely missed, as of course, will her presence. She will still be involved in work with TPD/TFD, so you may see her around! Christine, from all of us in the Tucson GIS Area Cooperative, we wish you the best of luck and a very happy retirement!
- On a lighter note, I’d like to welcome Gage Andrews, who will be taking over
Christine’s role temporarily, until a permanent replacement is found. Please join me in
welcoming Gage to the GIS Cooperative!
4. Improvements to the Parcel Layer (paregion) – Steve Whitney
- To find out which TRS’ have been processed, please contact Steve Whitney
- PCDOT changing from ArcCAD to AutoCAD, as ArcCAD didn’t support double precision
- They are using AutoCAD 2006, which supports geodatabase editing
- This process is not a spatially-based adjustment
5. Open Floor
- Laura Pinnas from TEP suggested the idea of having a CAD portal that would contain CAD files for Public Improvement (PI) projects
- Manny Rosas from PAG discussed the Regional Image Analysis/ER Mapper meeting on the 21st of June.
- PAG is two or three days from signing the contract with ER Mapper
- PAG will solicit new members for ER Mapper next year
- PAG will check again on extending the ER Mapper contract to non-PAG members
- PAG is conducting a cost/benefit study on the orthoimagery project
- Manny mentioned they are working with TUSD on a “School Search” project w/TUSD. This project encompasses using ArcIMS to deliver data on such topics as where children will be attending school, how good certain schools are in their academic delivery, etc. He is working with Bryant Nodine – Principal Planner with TUSD on this project.
- Manny suggested doing a participant debriefing on the results and implications of the ESRI User Conference in August 7-11. Next year’s conference may end up taking place in June – within the same fiscal year!
6. Final farewell – Larry
- It is with fond memories that I say thank you to all GIS Cooperative members for
allowing me to participate in your professional lives as GIS Cooperative chair. It has
been an honor and a privilege serving you and the GIS community at large. The best of
luck in each of your respective positions and I’ll see you at the next GIS Cooperative
meeting – as a participant!
THANK YOU!!!