CCJDC Meeting Minutes - January 29, 2025

Meeting Minutes

Wednesday January 29, 2025, 10:30-11:30

Zoom Virtual Meeting

10:30 AM - Meeting Opens

10:35 AM - Call to Order

10:36 AM - Review Meeting Agenda

10:40 AM - Review Previous Minutes

10:45 AM - Member Roundtable

• Chad Miller, GIS Developer, SCS Engineers – Working on a Survey123 app, Co-Chair of CCJDC.

• Gina Schmidt, GIS Coordinator, AMBAG – Working on the Calbuilds Tool and the Long Range Model Metropolitan Transportation Plan.

• Brian Kriete, GIS Analyst, Santa Cruz County – Focused on waste management mapping. and tracking trash service needs using GIS in Santa Cruz's wildland areas. Utilizing Survey123 and asset management software for dashboards. Also working on transportation dashboards.

• Mark Gorecki, GIS Coordinator, City of Watsonville – Newest employee at the City of Watsonville, with 20 years of experience in the private sector now transitioning into government.

• Rene Anchieta, San Benito County – Overseeing a GIS architecture rebuild, including mapping unhoused populations, budget season planning, upgrading servers, and modernizing ArcGIS enterprise systems.

• Jessica Lu, Planner, AMBAG – Serves as Secretary and Web Support for CCJDC. Recent projects include geocoding DMV data and aggregating census-tract-level electric vehicle data for a sustainable communities project.

• Cassandra Tice, GIS Technician, City of Watsonville – Working on address updates and data requests. Collaborating on a Santa Tracker app for kids and developing an app to replace drain leakage reporting.

• Charles Hanley, GIS Coordinator, City of Watsonville – Managing multiple projects, including dashboards for situational awareness (police, street conditions, infrastructure maintenance). Developing tools for field crews to update and track GIS data.

11:00 AM - Chad Miller’s CGIA Updates

CalGIS Conference – Scheduled in Sonoma this year. CGIA gives annual awards for GIS projects across different categories (students to professionals). Encouraged members to apply for recognition and in-person awards.

11:05 AM - Member Survey Results Discussion

Survey response results were discussed. Attendance preferences split between in-person, remote, or no preference. Need to increase engagement, particularly with students. Proposed ramping up CCJDC activities, such as GIS Day and technical workshops, to encourage participation. Suggested sending calendar invites to improve meeting coordination.

11:20 AM - Officer Elections

• Chair: Charles Hanley

• Co-Chair: Chad Miller

• Secretary: Jessica Lu

• Web Support: Jessica Lu

11:35 AM - Call for Presenters for April Meeting

Next quarterly meeting in April (format TBD - online or in-person).

Decision: No GIS Day or Technical Workshop this cycle.

11:38 AM - Meeting Adjourned

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 - July 20, 2021

Meeting Minutes

Tuesday July 20, 2021, 9:30 am – 12 pm

GoToMeeting Virtual Meeting

9:39 am: Call to Order: Meeting called to order by Bryan Kriete, chair of CCJDC

9:40 am: Review of Minutes

9:43 am: Any New Announcements of Additions to Agenda

• Chris Bley shared the upcoming Virtual Done Camp for data collection (dronecampca.org) and the California Coastal Records Project (californiacoastline.org)

9:45 am: Participant Introduction & Agency Updates

·         Bryan Kriete, County of Santa Cruz DPW

·         Chad Miller, County of Monterey

·         Patrick Dobbins, City of Gonzales

·         Jenni Gomez, County of Santa Cruz

·         Gammon Koval, Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments

·         Chris Bley, InsideUp Solutions

9:50 am: Discussion of Esri UC 2021 and EOC Activation

Gammon discussed Esri demonstrations related to Esri portals and their use with data communication.

Jenni discussed Esri demonstrations related to the Living Atlas and parcel fabric.

Chad talked about Monterey County switching to the parcel fabric from the traditional way of editing parcels within geodatabases.

Bryan discussed Esri demonstrations on the integration between AutoCAD and Esri products along with demonstrations on capital project solutions.

Group discussed if Esri UC 2022 will be in person, virtual, or both and the pros and cons of each option.

Patrick talked about Gonzales’ EOC and reliance on the county for general guidelines.

Bryan discussed the new department within the county of Santa Cruz, R3 (Response, Recovery, and Resilience), which focuses not only on emergencies but also on the recovery and preparedness.

Chad mentioned county of Monterey activated their EOC for the willow fire in June. They also set up content items to design fire evacuations and working to develop a preplanned, county-wide evacuation zone as opposed to using Zone Haven.

Bryan talked about using Zone Haven but the limitations due to its lack of integration. County worked with Esri and OES to help planners become more familiar with ArcGIS Online.

Jenni talked about CalFire working with other agencies to set up evacuation zones and trying to finalize boundaries for evacuation zones.

Bryan discussed the differences with fire and debris flow evacuation zones and the different parameters needed for each.

10:30 am: Demo

·         County of Monterey – Jupyter Notebooks

o   Chad Miller demoed using Jupyter Notebooks at a high level to create and publish a layer of lane closures from CalTrans data.

11:20 am: GIS Day Planning and Future of CCJDC

Gammon proposed keeping GIS Day online for 2021, scheduled for November.

Chad talked about keeping the CCJDC about sharing data and talked about plans to establish portal to portal sharing between Monterey County and other organizations.

Group discussed ways to continue to get more attendance at virtual meetings by sending out more frequent reminders approaching the meetings to the mailing list.

11:50 am: Wrap Up and Meeting Adjourned: Meeting adjourned by Bryan Kriete

·         Next CCJDC meeting is tentatively scheduled for September 21, 2021 with September 28 as another option.

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