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<div style="margin-top:6pt;"><font color="#1F497D"> Dear OGIC councilors and supporters,</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:6pt;"><font color="#1F497D">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. </font></div>
<div style="margin-top:6pt;"><font color="#1F497D">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.</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:6pt;"><font color="#1F497D">I know the timing of this is awkward given Thanksgiving, but <span style="background-color:yellow;"><b>all voting councilors</b></span><span style="background-color:yellow;"> </span><span style="background-color:yellow;"><b>please
reply to me </b></span><span style="background-color:yellow;"><b>(cc to Cy) </b></span><span style="background-color:yellow;"><b>with either “OK” or any concerns you have by close of business Wednesday December 4</b></span><font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt;background-color:yellow;"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><span style="background-color:yellow;"><b>.</b></span>
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).</font></div>
<div style="margin-top:6pt;"><font color="#1F497D">A couple introductory remarks before you read the attachments:</font></div>
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<li style="margin-top:6pt;">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.</li><li style="margin-top:6pt;">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).</li></font>
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<div style="margin-top:6pt;"><font color="#1F497D">Thanks all, and Happy Thanksgiving!</font></div>
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<div><font color="#1F497D">Jeff Frkonja</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Metro Research Center Director</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Oregon Geographic Information Council Regional Representative</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Oregon Geographic Information Council Chair</font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D">Oregon Model Steering Committee Vice Chair</font></div>
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