November 2007 Retreat
The GIS Policy Advisory Committee (GIS-PAC) steers the priorities and direction of Countywide GIS in Palm Beach County . The GIS-PAC consists of core County GIS agencies and Constitutional Offices working together to maintain and evolve the enterprise system.
The group reviewed the many accomplishments achieved since the 2001 retreat including the agency business processes that now rely on EGIS in the course of their daily activities. The November Retreat resulted in re-defining the organization's mission:
"To continue to build and maintain the Palm Beach County GIS infrastructure while developing innovative and sustainable ways to improve business processes and services countywide."
During the retreat consensus was achieved on the following strategic themes and strategies:
Strategic Themes
- Efficiency - EGIS to help agencies carry out their mandated functions in the most efficient way possible
- Quality - Both in products created and services provided
- Responsiveness - Responsive to the needs of its customers
Strategies
- Enterprise Focus - Efforts of EGIS cross multiple Agencies
- Priority Setting - PMT vetting and compromise via self-directed team
- Risk Management - Evaluate technical and financial risk
- Process Management - Pursuit of initiatives that improve business processes across agencies on an enterprise level
Combining feedback from the GIS Project Management Team Retreat, and information from the GIS Best Management Practices evaluation, number one priorities were set in the following areas:
- EGIS Sustainability
- Addressing (Clean-up and Enterprise System)
- Data Documentation/Metadata Management
- Technical Innovation/LifeCycle Management
- Pictometry Web Access for Agencies
Other tasks were identified and will be pursued as the above tasks are accomplished and resources become available.
Significant progress has been made with the development of the GIS Data Catalog and the completion of Phase I of the Addressing Clean-up Project.
Agency GIS Web Applications
