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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: Apri16, 1999 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ p _ (~ <br />SUBJECT: GIS Demonstration <br />DEPARTMENT: Land Records <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />None <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Roscoe Reeve, ext 2500 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive a report and observe a demonstration of newly acquired data and future <br />capabilities of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. <br />BACKGROUND: As a result of the Boazd's inclusion of funds in the County's Information Technology <br />Plan the past two yeazs, the County has obtained updated aerial photography and a partial delivery of <br />digital orthophotos of Orange County under an agreement with AtlanticTechnologies, Inc. These <br />products will provide County staff, our municipal partners, real property professionals, and citizens in <br />general, the ability to view and obtain copies of current and accurate images of the land. In addition, these <br />images can be overlayed with the new GIS property maps that have been completed for the entire County. <br />Land Records staff will present a 10 minute demonstration of the County's recently acquired capabilities <br />using a GIS workstation. Moreover, they will also demonstrate additional capabilities that the Town of <br />Chapel Hill has acquired (at their expense) from Atlantic Technologies, under an interlocal agreement <br />with the. County. The current CIP includes requested funding for the County to acquire similar <br />capabilities during the next several years. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct financial impact to the County associated with this <br />demonstration. The two major remaining phases (planimetrics and topography) of the County's planned <br />GIS data acquisitions under the agreement with Atlantic Technologies will cost approximately $126,100 <br />for the planimetrics and $121,303 for the topography. These figures may be lower if fair-share purchase <br />plans of our interlocal partners aze accomplished, such asimage/data purchase of Bingham Township by <br />OWASA. Funds have been requested, also, for hardware upgrades to store and plot the new images/data. <br />Funds for these purchases will be programmed into the next yeaz or two of the County's recommended <br />1999-2009 CIP. <br />