CCJDC Agenda for Virtual Meeting
June 20, 2024
10:30am-12pm
Robert & Elayne Stein Meeting Room
Watsonville Public Library
275 Main St., Suite 100
Watsonville, CA 95076
10:33 am: Meeting called to Order
10:34 am: Review/Reading of Minutes
10:37 am: Additions to agenda/announcement of quarterly meeting schedule
10:40 am: Participant updates/project updates/round table announcements
Use GIS to map potential property/land for eco protection, conservation, easement. The homeowners benefit altruistic, or conserve land, conserve species/habitat, also get tax benefits for conservation. Most get cash influx (usually agricultural easements to buy equipment, pay mortgages) - San Benito
(Sandra) creating web app of properties
Studying EDD employment data and DMV for our regional travel demand and Activity based model. Cleaning, manipulating, verifying, reporting data. We use GIS to map and analyze the data for whatever need we have, ranging from the ABM RTDM to analyzing the employment and land use in a certain city, but using the newest 2022-2023 2024 data so that we can develop a better updated regional travel demand and activity-based model for the coming years.
11:10 am: California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) Update
Chad Miller, SCS Engineers (absent)
11:20 am: Break/Networking/Refreshments (10 minutes)
11:30 am: CalBuilds Demo- Development Monitoring Tracking Tool for Jurisdictions
Gina Schmidt, AMBAG
Worked with jurisdictions for forecasted project areas, housing, type of housing, to create a long-range model for land use, employment, population, affordability, building suitability 3 counties, 18 cities
Automatic updating built/forecasted out with verification
Part of data processing was to merge by unique location b/c overlap reporting within tri-county area
Able to track commercial building by NAICS categories (industry, sector, etc), size and area of building, person per sqft, various metrics and data down to building level
11:45 am: GIS day sub-committee versus Technical Workshop Day discussion
Want to start event planning early
Suggestion for Technical Workshop Day instead of GIS Day for 2025, feedback?
Members benefitted from GIS Day in the past, but it involves a lot of coordination (students, professors), limited budget for venue/food, relies on donations, volunteers.
Technical Workshop would involve less work, smaller, time-commitment. Would be more GIS professionals based.
Technical Workshop would give flexibility in planning, we could schedule in October when people are less busy with other events.
Audience differentiation: GIS Day is more for students, beginners, introducing new people to GIS, Technical Workshop would be for professional development
Do we want CCJDC to focus on holding events for professionals (us) or new outreach? Technical workshop would be more geared towards people in the profession. Following COVID, CCJDC participation has fallen.
Due to uncertainty of funding/donations/volunteers, CCJDC is putting it on the agenda to create a subcommittee and depending on the level of support, we will decide either GIS Day or Technical Workshop event to begin planning.
11:55 am: Call for presenters for next meeting
Contact Charles Hanley at charles.hanley@watsonville.gov to be a presenter at CCJDC's next meeting.
12:00 pm: Wrap Up and Meeting Adjourned