The continuing implementation of the Enterprise GIS is on schedule to provide basic GIS services to all departments of Walla Walla County beginning in January 2008. The Enterprise GIS is an integrated, multi-departmental system of components used to collect, organize, analyze, visualize, and disseminate geographic information in a distributed network architecture. The goal of the Enterprise GIS is to implement interoperable technologies, standards, and methods so that GIS data and services can support core business needs more efficiently and more effectively.
The objectives of Walla Walla County's Enterprise GIS implementation will be to:
Improve
Timely access to information for informed decision making.
Preservation of knowledge.
Asset & Resource management .
Communications.
Increase
Customer Satisfaction.
Currency and accuracy of data.
Efficiencies in workflow.
Eligibility for grant funding through better record keeping.
Capture of lost revenue.
Reduce.
Participating elected offices, departments and agencies within the county will include:
Assessor
Auditor
Commissioners
Community Development
E911
Emergency Management
Public Health
Public Works
Sheriff
Treasurer
Watershed
Weed Control
Distributed costs for GIS services in 2009 will include $140,768.00 for Operations & Maintenance and $51,975.00 for Project work totaling $192,743.00.
Efficiencies generated by the project work identified in the GIS Business Plan will be approximately $400,000.
These will be attained by:
Better asset management.
Preservation of knowledge.
Reducing redundant data entry.
Integrating access to GIS data into the daily work flow.
Better public service.
Improved communications with local, state and federal agencies as well as internally between
departments and elected offices. |
