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Item # 4.4. City MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and City Co~ FROM: Michele Mc:Pherson,';'Director of Planning DATE: July 23, 2001 SUBJECT: Update Regarding G.I.S. For the July 23rd City Council meeting, we have prepared a presentation of G.I.S. capabilities utilizing information received from the Dakota G.I.S. system. I have spoken with Dave Schwarting, Sherburne County Public Works Director, regarding the County's G.I.S. program. Elk River is last on the County's priority list due to the fact that the County does not provide planning and zoning services to the City, and therefore, does not have an immediate need internally for the City of Elk River's information. Currently, the County staff is working on finishing Big Lake Township as well as the City of Big Lake. The townships of Blue Hill and Orrock have been recently awarded to consultants to be completed under contract. The townships of Santiago, Clear Lake and Palmer are left to be completed and the County is currently determining whether this will be completed in-house or via consultant contract. Once these townships are completed, they will begin work on the City of Elk River. The G.I.S. staff is also responsible for checking and placing all current Elk River plats in the AutoCAD Engineering software system. From there, they are then converted to the G.I.S. system and each parcel is assigned a unique identification number, which is then attached to a property identification number. While the County has been completing the first part of plat checking, they have been not been converting the plats into the G.I.S. system. In addition, no work has been done nor do they intend to start work on downtown Elk River this year. There will be gaps and overlaps in downtown that will need to be resolved through the G.I.S. mapping process. This will be a time-consuming part of completing the downtown area, as there are estimated to be 2,064 parcels in this area. This accounts for 62% of the remaining parcels left to be mapped to complete the City's base map. During our discussion Mr. Schwarting informed me that they had filled the G.I.S. technician position however, Brian Fisher, lead staff person in the G.I.S. department with extensive G.I.S. experience, will be leaving the County. His last day is July 27~h.