Abstract

GIS and Fiscal Analysis: Toward an Enterprise GIS
Track: State and Local Government
Authors: Linda Tomaselli

Almost everything that goes on in a city is based on land use, whether it is the revenue that is collected, or the expenditures a city must make to service the customers of the land uses. If a city had the ideal financial system that was able to record the source of every dollar that comes in and the destination of every dollar that goes out, it could determine the fiscal impact of land uses. Another ideal system is the Enterprise Model, where all parts of an organization contribute and share information. This approach is designed to simulate both of these ideal systems. This presentation will show how the City of Anoka has used GIS to model the flow of revenues and expenditures down to the parcel level, so that these flows can be summarized by detailed land use categories and by neighborhood, and provide transparency in local government finance.