Regional Technology Advisory Committee

(RTAC)

Governors Council on GIS May 16, 2007

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To leverage the opportunities and economies of collaboration across government agencies

To target the needs of the citizen’s & their expectations

To share information & ideas

RTAC Purpose (Mission)

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Pat BettenbergIT Director, Benton County

Mike DisherIT Director, Morrison County

Micah Myers & Tom HannonIT Director, City of St. Cloud

Ken BrownIT Director, Sherburne County

Bill SwingIT Director, Wright County

George McClureIT Director, Stearns County

RTAC Members

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• ESRI: Dan Falbo & Staff

• Crimnet: Oded Galili

• Governors Council: David Arbeit

• Several Law Enforcement Personnel from RTAC Counties.

RTAC Guests

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• Formed July 19th, 2005

• Monthly Meetings

• Minutes taken by the City of St Cloud

• Chaired by Stearns County IT Director

• Members contribute to agenda.

• Met “back to back” with CM-Regional Advisory Committee for interoperable communications from 9/30/05 through 9/22/06

• No funding

• No mandate (except for the self created one for the Quad County Group)

RTAC Description

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Applications Discussed/Considered

• Regional park & recreation application

• Regional planning and zoning application

• Regional “Crime Mapping” application

• Regional “Intellisearch” application

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Other Subjects Discussed/Considered

• Standard XML land records schema

• Regional Connectivity (i.e. fiber)

• Regional domain, i.e. Active Directory

• Involvement of cities in portal development

• Regional disaster recovery planning

• Regional help desk outsourcing

“Crime Mapping”

- a regional plot of criminal activity for the month of April 2006

Selected Application for Proof of Concept

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Challenges

• Different law enforcement systems

• Different hardware platforms

• Inconsistent & poor road centerlines

• Incomplete data (prior to address match)

• Cumbersome & disparate processes

• Data quality problems, i.e. MOC coding

• Legal ramifications

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Address Matching Results

(Using 25 Common BCA Classifications)

• Benton: 30-40% match

• Morrison: 20% match

• St. Cloud: 60% match• Wright: 70-80% (with manipulation of data)

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RTAC Conclusions

• Attempt POC application with cleaner data such as Park & Recreation

• Keep it Simple

• Work on underlying infrastructure– Regional base map– XML data schema – Improve on data collection procedures, i.e. GPS

• Learn from other collaboratives

• Keep talking

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Thoughts on Collaboration

Good collaboration requires…

• a ‘culture’ change – a good organizational structure by itself will not work.

• a concerted effort to communicate outside our respective organizations.

• rethinking how we are organized, i.e. GIS groups, IT Groups, Economic development groups, etc.