Meeting recap for July 2015

I wanted to provide a brief recap of the California GIS Council Meeting that was help July 22nd, 2015 at the ESRI conference.

Executive Committee Nominations

  • We decided to provide one more week for nominations.  I have now closed the nominations, and the election ballot will come out right after this. Elections will proceed over the next two weeks.

Votes

  • The Council voted to endorse the Vision for Survey of California Vegetation.  I wrote a letter of endorsement from the Council to Tom Lupo at the state: Letter Endorsing a Shared Vision for vegetation
  • The Council voted to approve and establish the Drone/UAS Policy Work Group (UPWG)

WorkGroups

  • UAS/Done Policy Work Group – This workgroup was established
  • Digital Land Record Inventory – MarkGreninger will work to re-establish this.  The first task will be to respond to recommendations to theSGC from the team that built the statewide parcels.
    • Please email Mark Greninger (mgreninger@cio.lacounty.gov) if you want to join this workgroup.
  • Strategic Plan – MarkGreninger willestablish and
    • Please email Mark Greninger (mgreninger@cio.lacounty.gov) if you want to join this workgroup.