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