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.

CCJDC Meeting Minutes- April 27, 2021

Meeting Minutes

Tuesday April 27, 2021, 9:30 am – 12 pm

GoToMeeting Virtual Meeting

9:36 am: Call to order: Meeting called to order by Bryan Kriete, chair of CCJDC
9:37 am: Review/Approval of Minutes
9:41 am: Any New Announcements or Additions to Agenda

• John Schweisinger, Turf Imagery, announced that he has been working with Big Sur Fire to create a crisis hub and map portal. The mapping has included generators, solar panels, pools and ponds that could be used in the event of a fire. Maps are being printed now and include trails. https://www.bigsurfiremaps.org

• Fire fuels mapping is taking place as well, funded by the County of Monterey and the Resource Conservation District of Monterey County (RCDMC). Put all this data into a GIS hub that can be shared with CalFire and allows for continuous mapping. ArcGIS Collector was used for this. https://rcdmc-ffmp-tigeo.hub.arcgis.com/

• John also introduced MPRPD Explore, which is a GIS Library that allows you to gain access to Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District GIS Data  https://mprpd-tigeo.hub.arcgis.com/
  
  

9:48 am: Participant Introduction & Agency Updates

• Bryan Kriete, GIS Analyst for County of Santa Cruz DPW and CCJDC chair, is working on numerous projects including Culvert Assessment Mapping Project, Stormwater Network Ownership & Condition Project, Sanitation CCTV Inspections Import Project. All of these projects have various Maps, Apps, and Dashboards associated with them for deeper and more rigorous analytic opportunities for upper management.

• Gina Schmidt, GIS Coordinator for AMBAG, is currently working on AMBAG’s long-range plan. This includes modeling transportation and the Sustainable Communities Strategy out to the year 2045 for Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties.

• Will Condon, Planner for AMBAG, is also working on AMBAG’s long-range plan. He has been reviewing input datasets for the model and preparing for coding projects into the model’s network.

• Chris Bley, Insight Up Solutions and DART, has been working on several projects. Recently inspected 1500 acres of Esselen tribal land in Big Sur using drones. Also working with the Naval Postgraduate School as well as Monterey Fire Search and Rescue.

• Chad Miller, County of Monterey, has been putting together the parcel fabric for Monterey County. Recently running a pilot project with city of Salinas, which includes portal to portal collaboration for shared editing of parcel fabric. This could have ripple effects for other orgs and agencies that work with the county for data sharing capabilities

• Dario Moreno, Caltrans District 5 GIS Coordinator, has been working on Caltrans’ Active Transportation Plan. He has been using asset management software for sign inventory and irrigation. He is also involved in several committees for creating standards for data management. He noted that GIS is becoming popular in Caltrans, and is realizing they need to have everybody on the same page.

• Carol Ostergren, USGS: Central Coast LiDAR now showing up in the National Map Portal. Point cloud and 1-meter DEMS are now available. Another collection of LiDAR for Santa Cruz County, quality level 1, will cover all of Santa Cruz County, including a piece of the northwest coastal area not collected before. She noted this data is collected and validated and will be available soon. Also have Santa Clara County collection available for those interested as well, which will be coming in the next 3 to 4 months

• Mark Gomes, Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office, has been working on a ranch map atlas, pesticide use investigation mapping, and species work.

10:01 am: Discuss Mobile Data Collection Projects – Using Survey 123, Collector, or other Applications

• Chad Miller brought up licensing ESRI mobile apps, noting that one way around the licensing issue is by using Survey123. It is public and anonymous and can draw any geometry now instead of only allowing for point data. Bryan Kriete has used it for fire recovery and debris flow surveying for Santa Cruz County.

• Chad noted another workaround for the named user issue, which is entering an Enterprise agreement for ESRI. This costs more but gives them basically unlimited named user licenses. He noted it is a three year trial then ESRI will look at how many accounts they have created.

• Dario Moreno used Survey 123 for the public to comment on ATP plan, Story Maps, Explorer maps, etc. He noted Caltrans uses it for logging future location based needs to identify problem areas.

• Bryan Kriete noted that Enterprise licensing agreement is based on population so does not make sense for Santa Cruz County.

• Storage is also becoming an issue, as a lot of users collecting a lot of data is storage exhausting.

• Bryan Kriete noted how much nicer mobile data collection is now with smartphone collections as opposed to the old Trimble GPS units.

• Chad Miller noted that Monterey County has used mobile collection for fire and associated damage assessments. One thing he has noticed is staffing and how to get field folks to collect what they are supposed to collect. He thinks more facilitating and training will be necessary, as well as data validation so that data from field is higher quality. He noted that water resources agencies surveying are surveying levees in the county as well.

10:30 am: Demos

• County of Monterey – GIS Resources & Services

o    Chad Miller demoed the Monterey County parcel fabric

Click here to view presentation slides.

• County Santa Cruz DPW – Lucity Services & 2021 New GIS Features

o    Bryan Kriete demoed the Lucity software

11:56 pm: Wrap Up & Meeting Adjourned: Meeting adjourned by Bryan Kriete

• Next CCJDC meeting will be July 20, 2021

Click here to view a recording of the meeting.

CCJDC Meeting Minutes - February 2nd, 2021

Meeting Minutes

Tuesday February 2, 2021, 9:30 am– 12 pm

GoToMeeting Virtual Meeting

• 9:35 am: Call to order: Meeting called to order by Bryan Kriete, 2020 chair of CCJDC

• 9: 35 am: Review/Approval of Minutes

• 9: 38 am: New Announcements or Additions to Agenda:

o No new announcements or additions to the agenda

• 9:39 am: Participant Introduction & Agency Updates

• Bryan Kriete, County of Santa Cruz DPW and chair, Integrating Info Asset Planner (Proactive Asset Management software) with GIS, GraniteNet, and Lucity. This integration generated a lot of new datasets to use/publish. Providing GIS support, developing apps, data for Stormwater consultant to develop a master plan. Working with Roads to begin mapping of new asset classes (such as guardrails or red curbs). In process of unwinding Post mile issues. Many roads have switched start and end points breaking PM’s and breaking associated assets belonging to (like paddle markers).

• Gina Schmidt, AMBAG, launched ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1 on a single machine deployment. One Portal account leverages data store for data sets and 21 named users for the jurisdictions. Each of the 21 jurisdictions are updating PlaceTypes map applications and future development and growth areas for AMBAG’s long-range plan (2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy). Working on a lot of planning projects, and getting ready to move into modeling for the MTP/SCS. Gina noted that the 2020 year is being treated as a forecast year so won’t have COVID-19 implications. The next long-range plan will be utilizing 2020 Census data, so that plan will show the implications of COVID-19.

• Chad Miller, County of Monterey, noted that he has been working on evacuations for winter storm evacuations for debris flow. All have been lifted except near the Highway 1 slide in Big Sur. Working on parcel fabric with assessor’s office on edits and developments. Integrating parcel fabric for different apps and backend processes. County has moved to ArcGIS Pro.

• Charles Hanley, City of Salinas, dealing with compliance issues for FEMA mapping. Have edits to make to achieve compliance. Working on map templates for General Plan.

• Chris Bley, Insight Up Solutions, has been working with their long-range drone with vertical take-off and wing flight that allows for a longer range (F90+). 90 minute flight duration possible. Upcoming data gathering in Big Sur to capture 1500 acres of imagery. Having a lot of success with that platform. Working with Joby Aviation as well. https://www.quantum-systems.com/project/trinity-f90/

• Randy Casey, City of Salinas, successfully installed ArcGIS Enterprise including Portal on a multi-machine server. Envisioned as being a phased in approach, service by service. Have to schedule when things migrate over as to not impede on staff use. Making sure the published data is the best available data. Upgrading to 10.8.1. Developed an application for sanitary sewer crew for the CCTV van and move it to a server, pull the data down and into a GIS realm. They can then have a dashboard for the sewers that they’ve done. Also linking a tree application to the 311 application and make integration more seamless for reporting tree issues. Deep into the realm of asset management.

• Tony Cardoza, City of Salinas, changed drone platforms. Working with open data portal. Future growth areas and handling requests.

• Will Condon, AMBAG, worked on disaggregation of employment data at the TAZ level for the years of 2015, 2020, 2035 and 2045 to be integrated into AMBAG’s model for the 2045 MTP/SCS. Preparing to begin modeling process for AMBAG’s long-range plan.

• Stephanie Baker, solution engineer at ESRI, will be presenting on ArcGIS Field Maps.

• 10:12 am: Election of CCJDC Officers

o Chair: Bryan Kriete

o Co-chair: Chad Miller

o Secretary: AMBAG

o Webmaster: Rene Anchieta

• 10:17 am: ESRI- ArcGIS FieldMaps, Presented by Stephanie Baker

Click here to download slides for ESRI’s Field Maps Presentation by Stephanie Baker

• Randy Casey inquired about teams that are using PC tablets. Is this only for mobile applications? Stephanie responded that most teams using Pro for collection services for desktop based applications. No browser based application for desktop users only. Field application is for mobile or phone.

• Bryan Kriete asked since Navigator is a premium service, when it gets integrated into Field Maps will it become free as a part of the suite of apps? Stephanie was not sure and will look into it.

• Bryan Kriete said that the County of Santa Cruz uses Lucity asset management software, and asked if crews have Collector license, are there plans to be able to integrate with Lucity on the backend? It would make sense to have Collector for the crews as main experience.

 Response: Not sure of any workflows for that, doesn’t think there are any plans for that.

• 10:57 am: SC County DPW- Innovyze Info Asset Planner extension, Presented by Bryan Kriete

• Randy Casey noted that Salinas had to develop a holistic system that includes pipes, manhole covers, etc. that has to be interconnected so if they bring them up on a dashboard. Does this system allow for that?

Definitely, can put the layers into a dashboard. Analysts would still have to update the network now and again, but still will be able to see what’s happening to the network and get a snapshot of what’s going on.

• Randy Casey asked if the datasets are exportable or can be published

Bryan Kriete said yes they can be shared out.

• Chad Miller asked the group about Enterprise. Monterey County serves named user license through Portal. Question is about serving ArcGIS Pro license through Portal: Their portal is externally accessible. Since they have their Pro licenses being accessed through portal, shouldn’t need VPN to access. However, staff is still having to go through license manager, since they don’t externalize their license Portal. Has anybody made their license server externally accessible?

Randy Casey said Salinas hasn’t but wonders why ESRI would want them to and it could open them up to having their licenses stolen.

• Next meeting will be Tuesday April 27, 2021

• 11:33 am: Wrap Up & Meeting Adjourned: Meeting adjourned by Bryan Kriete

CCJDC Meeting Minutes - October 27th, 2020

 Meeting Notes for CCJDC Virtual Meeting
October 27th, 2020

** GoToMeeting was used to facilitate this meeting**

·         Bryan Kriete, chair, called the meeting to order at 9:34 am

o   9:35 am: Review of previous meeting’s minutes. Minutes approved

·         No additions to agenda

·         Participant intros/updates

o   Bryan Kriete, GIS Analyst City of Santa Cruz Public Works

o   Gina Schmidt, GIS Coordinator for AMBAG, is working on rolling out ArcGIS Enterprise, launching mapping applications. Set up named users outside our agency for editing access to planning departments to capture local land use data for AMBAG’s long range MTP/SCS Plan.

o   Jeanette Favaloro, CSUMB, stated she is not directly involved in GIS right now, just listening in for now.

o   Will Condon, Planner at AMBAG, noted he is working on reviewing and verifying datasets for AMBAG’s travel model, and working with CARB’s EMFAC model.

o   Austin Robey, GIS Coordinator at City of Watsonville, noted that staff is very close to rolling out CityWorks for water folks. Waiting on an update which should be out next month. Using Collector and CityWorks mobile application. Also working on Enterprise. Editing geometric networks.

o   Nakul Bhatia: ESRI

o   Dario Moreno, Caltrans District 5 GIS Coordinator, Working on ATP plan for District 5. Working with SLO County for Virtual GIS day and maintenance viewer and data. Going through agreements and post modeling.

o   Joseph Londono, GIS with Caltrans District 5, working with post-models

o   Chad Miller, GIS Analyst in Information Technology Department of County of Monterey, working with ArcGIS Enterprise development, lots of ArcGIS Enterprise administration and application development.

o   Matthieu Denuelle, ESRI, Work with Caltrans, CalFire, Counties

o   Carol Ostergren, USGS, LIDAR for Central Coast funded by FEMA still not showing on National Maps, have data drives moving around. If we don’t have it yet, let her know and she will get drive to us. Santa Cruz County data on ftp site. Working closely with the state, but has no information or funding for post burn Lidar data collection. If people need assistance, can help coordinate with that. Not sure if supplemental Congressional money will exist to capture new burn data. Santa Cruz county quality level 1 collected last spring, funded by San Mateo Conservation and Santa Cruz tree people. Data processed and submitted to national maps, hopefully available soon.

§  Email: costergren@usgs.gov

§  Mail drives to 219 Appleton Drive Aptos, 95003

§  2020 QL1 Santa Cruz LiDAR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z-u_-1mOy0HAD6_FaABvVFG9VRRPP1mI/view?usp=sharing

§  A couple of the Santa Cruz 2020 products can be downloaded here. They could be the same ones SCC is serving. ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/wr/ca/menlo.park/costergren/

§  Austin noted he has a drive for Monterey and parts of Santa Cruz, he can share if need be. Chad Miller has hard drive for Monterey County. Both drives will be sent back to Carol ASAP.

·         9:52am: Wildfire Impacts

o   Chad Miller supported IC for the 3 fires. Made use of ArcGIS Enterprise to send up some apps quickly for evacuation zones. GIS Enterprise for post damage assessment. Evac zones were viral and crashed systems. Moved it onto ArcGIS online, want to make data center more sophisticated

o   Bryan Kriete made apps for Santa Cruz county using Survey123 to locate damaged structures, issues with parcel lines; with structures damaged it is hard to say which parcel they were on. Lost over 500 signs with PostMiles and hired contractors trying to get post miles. Using Survey123 to get signs, culverts, etc. mapped. Doing a lot of work for debris flow evacuation zones mapped. Survey123 saved them, due to cell service but haven’t implemented something that would work to collect points and then map them with devices when service resumes. San Lorenzo Valley maps are difficult with lots of unknown factors and rugged terrain.

o   Joe Londono- Caltrans having issues with parcels not lining up with imagery. Especially difficult with shadows and trees to determine property boundaries and resulting impacts of fires and trying to determine which property has structures burnt or damaged.

o   Chad Miller mentioned CalFire going to USGS for info on potential debris flows for Monterey County. Asked if Santa Cruz fire SCU? Did CalFire go and do work on Environmental Rapid Response Team report? For Dolan Fire, USFS also used USGS and BareEarth. Carmel/Salinas Fire was CalFire. CalFire was more sophisticated and got data from USGS. CalFire got report out and distribution of data. Soil burn severity was leveraged from USGS. Mass transportation evacuation plans called ZoneHaven in Santa Cruz County, and that Governor Newsom wants a statewide ZoneHaven. (Bryan mentioned that Matt Price was hesitant about ZoneHaven. Austin mentioned to take a look at services to automatically push via ArcGIS enterprise collaborations and synching).

o   Matthieu, ESRI, said statewide EOS wants statewide county data drive process for fire and evacuation mapping. He said to use Geo-Jobe to help. GeoJobe has good tools for moving content on Enterprise (https://www.geo-jobe.com/admin-tools/ )

§  Set up user accounts, move content between users in same organization, then no cost but cost associated with other actions

·         10:20 am: Nakul Bhatia presented on ArcGIS Insights Dashboard

o   Austin asked if intermediate data creates additional dataset in your datastore? Nakul replied that it does.

·         11:01 am: Dario Moreno (Caltrans) presented on Active Transportation Model and supporting dashboards

·         11:20 am: Bryan Kriete presented Santa Cruz Department of Public Works Transportation Dashboards

·         11:50 am: Dario Moreno outlined the GIS Day plan for SLO County

·         Next meeting will be in January 2021, Tuesday possibly 3rd week of month.

·         11:54 am: Meeting adjourned