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16 Planning — GIS Technician • Request: Establish a new Permanent Full Time GIS Technician position. Purpose: To create, update and maintain a comprehensive shared data base for GIS analysis and mapping and to complete GIS presentations and analysis in support of Board of Commissioners goals. Job Functions: ❑ Reconcile, verify and enter data updates to the GIS data base including addresses, subdivisions, new development and other changing attributes. Assure that a current, accurate data base of planning related information is maintained. ❑ Compile GIS analyses of information such as patterns of new development and the like. ❑ Develop GIS presentation information for Board of Commissioners, Planning Board and other public meetings including maps and analyses. Needs Addressed: ❑ Currently there is a backlog of subdivision addressing system updates, including over . 16,000 addresses that need to be verified and interfaced with the county -wide system. Staff time has not been available to maintain the data base on a current basis. ❑ When the database is not current it does not support the information needs of Planning, Environmental Health, Land Records, Tax Assessor, Schools or the Board of County Commissioners, among others. ❑ The use of GIS in land use analysis is increasing and GIS needs to be used to a much greater extent in support of Board goals such as in analyzing development patterns and creating scenarios of development impacts and alternatives. Outcomes: ❑ Update and maintain a current, timely subdivision addressing system data base. This is the base geocode or platform on which other government information is layered. Through this support the use of the data base: ✓ For policy analysis such as adequate public facilities and transfer of development rights, among others. ✓ For Board goals as outlined below. • ✓ By other Coun ty departments such as Environmental Health, Land Records, Tax Assessor and other agencies such as schools and towns.