CCJDC Meeting Minutes - June 20, 2024

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

CCJDC Meeting Minutes - March 20, 2024

CCJDC Agenda for Virtual Meeting
March 20, 2024
10:30am-12pm
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11:01 am: Call to Order: Meeting called to order at by Chad Miller, co-chair.

11:10 am: Review/Approval of Minutes

11:15 am: Any new announcements or additions to agenda

11:20 am: Tribute to Aaron Cole

Chad, Charles, and Gina gave a tribute to Aaron Cole, Chair of CCJDC, who passed away.
 
11:30 am: Elections of Officers

· Chair: Charles Hanley, City of Watsonville- call meetings, set agenda & topics, get presenters

· Co-Chair: Chad Miller, SCS Engineers- co-host, leads in chair absence, set agenda & topics, get presenters

· Secretary: Gina Schmidt (AMBAG member backup)- take notes at quarterly meetings, coordinate events (technical workshop, location for events, CCJDC GIS days), gather materials

· Website Support: Renee Anchieta, County of San Benito; and Jessica Lu, AMBAG
 
11:40 am: Participant Updates

· Public works projects; working on utility network, upgrading (Charles Hanley)

· Landline replacement project, working with water department, using GPS and Maps data (Avanish Sharma)

· Updating addresses for city of Watsonville (going through old documentation) to see if there are new attributes, updating GIS data (Cassandra Tice)

· Inquiring about boundaries (schools) and how it overlaps with disadvantaged communities, opportunity to make new schools, updating air quality data (switch over to new documentation) (Eli Lessman)

· Working on updating our RTDM/ABM which is basically trip projections based on housing demographics, we are going to adopt it in June 2026, we are gearing up for modeling process next spring. Updating our base year 2022 (last was 2015). Looking at jobs, housing, roadways, working with jurisdictions to get updated data. Updating LU data, community viz based, LU model will feed into ABM. Also working on GHG model. Working on lots of GIS models but not all Esri-based (Gina Schmidt).

· MTIP, Carbon Reduction Program (Will Condon), updated Title V maps, gearing up for data validation for LU model and ABM.

· Monterey Peninsula Landfill affecting air quality in Marina, odor issues, so SCS engineers were hired to conduct an odor study, worked on mapping survey system for citizens in Marina (Chad Miller).
 
11:50 am: California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) Update

• Chad Miller, SCS Engineers

• California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) Update (Presentation)

  · Under CGIA Community Council (free): GIS Under the Dome

  · CGIA holds quarterly meetings, presentations on GIS topics, like subservice utilities, senate bills

  · NSGIC (National States Geographic Information Council) does Geospatial Maturity Assessment (GMA) every year. The dashboard shows grade on variables like addresses, parcels, elevation, transportation, etc.

  o GIO reports to NSGIC, our old GIO left so open position. Important for spatial data infrastructure

• · https://cgia.org/cagiscouncil/

12:00 pm: Content Discussions
 
12:10  Wrap Up and Meeting Adjourned: Meeting adjourned by Charles Hanley

Next CCJDC meeting is tentatively scheduled for June 18, 2024.