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Abstract


Paper
GIS for a Small City Government
Track: State and Local Government
Author(s): Steve Cumblidge, Dragos Barbu

The paper will relate the experiences of the City of Grand Terrace (population 11,626), from development of the GIS in 1998 to its current status, with all the pitfalls and challenges such as budgeting, staffing, data sources and maintenance, and user issues. The paper will present basic issues applicable to development of a functioning GIS in a small local government setting. This paper is intended for beginners in GIS. The Grand Terrace experience may prove helpful for other small jurisdictions in developing their GIS programs.

Steve Cumblidge
City of Grand Terrace
Community and Economic Development
22795 Barton Road
Grand Terrace , CA 92313-5295
USA
Phone: (909) 430-2217
Fax: (909) 783-7629
E-mail: stevenc@cityofgrandterrace.org

Dragos Barbu
City of Grand Terrace
Management Information Systems
22795 Barton Road
Grand Terrace 92313-5295
USA
Phone: (909) 430-2231
Fax: (909) 783-7629
E-mail: gtgis@eee.org