[OGIC] ACTION NEEDED: OGIC affirmation of new leg. rec.

[Jeff Frkonja]

  Dear OGIC councilors and supporters,
As you recall from our last quarterly meeting, we tasked our Resource Working Group (RWG) with re-setting our legislative recommendation in close coordination with the Chief Data Officer (CDO) to ensure successful navigation of the executive branch budget process for the 21 session and the 21-23 biennium.
I'm happy to thank Rachel Smith, Steven Hoffert, Dean Anderson, Dave Stuckey, Patti Sauers, Kathryn Helms the CDO, Cy's team in GEO, and of course Cy for all their work.  The fruits of their labors are attached in the form of a draft work plan with executive summary for your affirmation.  As we anticipated, the timing of the state DAS budget process requires us to seek your affirmation via email, to be confirmed at our January meeting.
I know the timing of this is awkward given Thanksgiving, but all voting councilors please reply to me (cc to Cy) with either "OK" or any concerns you have by close of business Wednesday December 4th.   DAS accelerated their schedule this year so we need your affirmation by that date to stay on track.  Silence gives assent!  (but remember that we will confirm this in January, and hope to have the ability to tweak things as the budget process matures).
A couple introductory remarks before you read the attachments:
*       The work plan leads with the resources and costs-note that we will communicate this material to external stakeholders differently, leading with the value proposition.  The current format is simply an artifact of how plans and POPs are packaged for the state process.
*       The RWG worked hard to match a reasonable resource request to a mix of data projects (now called "validation projects") that deliver real value to Oregon residents via state agencies and other government entities, have a meaningful constituency, and comprehensively exercise the features of the GeoHub portal required by the legislature.  Applying those three criteria led RWG to pick wildfire response & recovery, election administration, and workforce development operational data as the projects.  We realize that this omits some project ideas that we previously discussed;  we recommend these three choices as having the optimal mix of value return, constituent reach, technical merit, and risk tolerance.  This was not an easy balance to reach so if your favorite project is not in the list I urge you to take the long view (that by building some early successes we will eventually realize everyone's favorite shared spatial data project).

Thanks all, and Happy Thanksgiving!
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Jeff Frkonja
Metro Research Center Director
Oregon Geographic Information Council Regional Representative
Oregon Geographic Information Council Chair
Oregon Model Steering Committee Vice Chair


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