Okaloosa County BOCC — July 26, 2016 — Geographic Information Systems PBB

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA SERVICE AREA: GENERAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM: INFORMATION TECHNONOLGY/GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the GIS Division is to plan, organize and manage the construction, operation and maintenance of the Okaloosa County fiber optic network system and associated telecommunications as well as all Geomatics and related technology activities to deliver an organized, shared geospatial-centric information infrastructure that enables our county to manage data and resources using a cost effective county-wide enterprise approach. REVENUE: Information Systems is funded within the General Fund. Supporting revenue of the General Fund are ad valorem taxes, state shared revenue, licenses, permits, charges for services, interest, other miscellaneous revenue and transfers from other funds. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS LAST YEAR:  Designed Project Management Process.  Managed 2015-2016 Okaloosa County Aerial Photography Project.  Developed key technologies to improve efficiency of county permit and inspection system.  Continued to improve county addressing system.  Worked with Property Appraiser to migrate their servers and systems to Shalimar Admin Bldg.  Continued to develop Property Appraiser website and associated system architecture.  Implemented EOC disaster recovery VMware offsite plan.  Implemented new OCWS subsurface utility database design, data merge process and standard operating procedure.  Began a comprehensive Public Works technology needs assessment.  Implemented Sentinel GIS Mosquito Control Software.  Mach Alert System integration and coordination for the City of FWB Fire Department.  Daily administration, management and maintenance of all GIS related hardware, software, over 192 geospatial datasets, websites, over 215 custom reports and various departmental personnel necessary to keep the enterprise GIS/IT related functions of the County operational and effective. PROGRAM GOAL: The goal of the GIS Division is to provide robust, user friendly access to “on demand” geospatial data and systems for critical government services that affect the citizens of our county and manage the county fiber optic / telecommunications network as a mission critical utility. KEY OBJECTIVES: 1. Continue to leverage key development environments to produce maintainable, highly effective software applications. 2. Create a highly available (HA) GIS/IT infrastructure to insure mission critical applications and data services are available 24x7. 3. Coordinate and facilitate interdepartmental and interagency cooperation to reduce duplication of effort and wasted resources. 4. Work with federal, state and local governments to create and facilitate cost-sharing strategies. 5. Increase efficiency of current staff by developing better GIS/IT tools to increase fiber optic outside plant operations and maintenance activities to help prevent communication outages due to fiber optic cuts and utility relocates. 6. Increase efficiency with technological innovation. PERFORMANCE MEASURES: Actual Estimated Proposed Performance Measures FY14/15 FY15/16 FY16/17 Websites 15 15 16 Websites hits 5,487,233 5,173,466 5,200,000 Input Websites page views 2,111,386 2,344,752 2,500,000 Geospatial data on demand (website throughput) 184.8 GB 343.4 GB 400 GB R