The NYS GIS Association in collaboration with the Fund for City of New York has developed GISCalc, an Excel return-on-investment tool. GISCalc allows you to quickly estimate the benefits to your jurisdiction of using GIS. The formulas in GISCalc are based on a hundred documented GIS applications which were grouped into benefit categories, and whose ROI metrics were extracted for use in the model.

GISCalc allows you to adjust inputs based on easy-to-find characteristics of your own jurisdiction. It also allows you to either accept default benefit factors or to customize them as you wish. There is a worksheet included where you can also factor in costs. You may run GISCalc as many times as you wish to gauge benefits according to different benefit and cost scenarios.

Please take GISCalc for a spin and see if it provides you with useful information. We want to know if you found GISCalc helpful and whether you have recommendations for improvement. Please provide feedback or requests for assistance to info@nysgis.net.

We’d like to thank Paul Epstein and Brett Whysel for their work in designing GISCalc. Thanks also to Dr. Mary McCormick, President of the Fund for the City of New York for providing the funding that made the development of this tool possible.

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The NYS GIS Association’s NYGeoCon 2015 featured an applications awards contest and we received sixteen great write-ups from across the State. We feel these descriptions of actual projects, implemented by state and local agencies, to be very enlightening and inspiring. They range from programs to enhance economic development to projects that improve infrastructure maintenance operations. We think there is much to learn from them and hope you can use them to promote GIS in your jurisdiction. In some instances there is useful ROI information, something we hope to add to in the future. Contact information is available on the write-ups should you wish to speak with the project managers.

Award Submittals

Interviews were conducted with New York State County and Municipal GIS Leaders about what they believe could be done to expand GIS at the local level. A summary of these interviews has been compiled which you can read by clicking the button below.

Summary of Interviews

Slide show and notes

Presented by William Johnson,Geographic Information Officer (GIO) for New York State

Regional Group	Name POC	Jurisdiction	Type Jurisdiction	Email	Phone
Adirondacks	Star Carter	Regional-DANC	State Authority	scarter@danc.org	315-661-3261
Adirondacks	Mickey Dietrich	Regional-Tug Hill Commission	State Authority	mickey.nysgisa@gmail.com	315-785-2380
Adirondacks	Jim Walker	Herkimer County	County	jwalker@herkimercounty.org	315-867-1280
Adirondacks	Ben Goff	Essex County	County	bgoff@co.essex.ny.us	518-873-3792
Adirondacks	Matthew Owen	City of Watertown	Municipality	mowen@watertown-ny.gov	315-785-7793
Adirondacks	Glen Cutter	Clinton County	County	glen.cutter@clintoncountygov.com	518-565-4567
Adirondacks	Cynthia Dumas	Franklin County	County	cdumas@co.franklin.ny.us	518-481-1504
Adirondacks	Jason Pfotenhauer	St Lawrence County	County	jpfotenhauer@co.st-lawrence.ny.us	315-379-2292
Adirondacks (N Country)	Barry Baker	Hamilton County	County	realproperty@hamiltoncountyny.gov	518-548-5531
Adirondacks (N Country)	Sara Frankenfeld	Warren County	County	frankenfelds@warrencountyny.gov	518-761-6410
Adirondacks (N Country)	Heather Weller	Washington County	County	hweller@co.washington.ny.us	518-746-2130
Adirondacks (N Country) (CDRPC)	Troy Hilts	Saratoga County	County	thilts@saratogacountyny.gov	518-884-4705
Adirondacks (Tug Hill)	Michelle Bunny	Jefferson County	County	michelleb@co.jefferson.ny.us	315-785-3144
Adirondacks (Tug Hill)	Russell Brownell	Lewis County	County	russbrownell@lewiscounty.ny.gov	315-377-2026
Capital	Mary Millus	City of Albany	Municipality	mmillus@albanyny.gov	518-434-5286
Capital	Todd Fabozzi	Capital District Regional Planning Commission (CDRPC)	Regional	todd@cdrpc.org	518-453-0850
Capital (CDRPC)	Laura DeGaetano	Albany County	County	laura.degaetano@albanycounty.com	518-447-5670
Capital (CDRPC)	Jolene Weidlich	Rensselaer County	County	jweidlich@rensco.com	518-270-2682
Catskills	Thomas Hynes	Ulster County	County	thyn@co.ulster.ny.us	845-334-5396
Catskills	Jennifer Stone	Sullivan County	County	jennifer.stone@co.sullivan.ny.us	845-807-0224
Catskills	Spencer DeVaul	Delaware County	County	spencer.devaul@co.delaware.ny.us	607-746-2944
Catskills	Daniel Munoz	Orange County	County	dmunoz@orangecountygov.com	845-615-3791
Catskills	Ray Ward	Greene County	County	rward@discovergreene.com	518-719-3525
Central NY	Don Jordan	Onondaga County	County	donjordan@ongov.net	315-435-2631
Central NY	Don Jordan	City of Syracuse	Municipality	donjordan@ongov.net	315-435-2631
Central NY	Michael Ellis	Madison County	County	michael.ellis@madisoncounty.ny.gov	315-366-2348
Central NY	Eric Lopez	Cortland County	County	elopez@cortland-co.org	607-753-5043
Central NY	Nick Colas	Cayuga County	County	ncolas@co.cayuga.ny.us	315-253-1276
Central NY	Kyle Dornich	Otsego County	County	dornichk@otsegocounty.com	607-547-4220
Central NY (Tug Hill)	Adrian Armstrong	Oswego County	County	aarmstrong@oswegocounty.com	315-349-8315
Central NY (Tug Hill)	Jeffrey Quackenbush	Oneida County	County	jquackenbush@ocgov.net	315-798-5009
GIS SIG	Mike Ross	City of Rochester	Municipality	mike.ross@cityofrochester.gov	585-428-6103
GIS SIG	Dawn Allen	Orleans County	County	dawn.allen@orleansny.com	585-589-5400
GIS SIG	Erin Pence	Genesee County	County	erin.pence@co.genesee.ny.us	585-815-7901
GIS SIG	James Kirsch	Wyoming County	County	jkirsch@wyomingco.net	585-786-8828
GIS SIG	Scott McCarty	Monroe County	County	smccarty@monroecounty.gov	585-753-7502
GIS SIG	Angela Ellis	Livingston County	County	aellis@co.livingston.ny.us	585-243-7550
GIS SIG	Bret DeRoo	Wayne County	County	bderoo@co.wayne.ny.us	315-946-5919
GIS SIG	Roger Paddock	Yates County	County	realproperty@yatescounty.org	315-536-5165
GIS SIG	Mike Karlsen	Seneca County	County	mkarlsen@co.seneca.ny.us	315-539-1719
GIS SIG	Sheri Norton	Ontario County	County	sheri.norton@co.ontario.ny.us	585-396-4482
GISMO NYC	Colin Reilly	New York City (5 Counties)	Municipality	creilly@doitt.nyc.gov	718-403-8394
Hudson Valley	Robert Wills	Dutchess County	County	rwills@dutchessny.gov	845-486-3643
Hudson Valley	Doug Schuetz	Rockland County	County	schuetzd@co.rockland.ny.us	845-364-3421
Hudson Valley	Sam Wear	Westchester County	County	stw1@westchestergov.com	914-995-3047
Hudson Valley	Jane DeGennaro	Columbia County	County	jane.degennaro@columbiacountyny.com	518-828-7334
Hudson Valley	Arlene Owen	Putnam County	County	arlene.owen@putnamcountyny.gov	845-808-4000
LIGIS	Ross Baldwin	Town of Southampton	Municipality	rbaldwin@southamptontownny.gov	631-702-1994
LIGIS	Ed Eisenstein	Nassau County	County	eeisenstein@nassaucountyny.gov	516-448-7072
LIGIS	Jim Daly	Suffolk County	County	james.daly@suffolkcountyny.gov	631-853-6045
Mohawk Valley	Neusa McWilliams	Fulton County	County	nmcwilliams@fultoncountyny.gov	518-736-5660
Mohawk Valley	Amanda Bearcroft	Montgomery County	County	abearcroft@co.montgomery.ny.us	518-853-8334
Mohawk Valley	Brian Fleury	Schoharie County	County	brianfleury@co.schoharie.ny.us	518-295-8770
Mohawk Valley (CDRPC)	Mark Storti	Schenectady County	County	mark.storti@schenectadycounty.com	518-386-2225 x6
Southern Tier	Doug English	Broome County	County	denglish@co.broome.ny.us	607-778-6505
Southern Tier	Doug English	City of Binghamton	Municipality	denglish@co.broome.ny.us	607-77--6505
Southern Tier	Steve Wilber	Chemung County	County	swilber@co.chemung.ny.us	607-873-1150
Southern Tier	Dan Kahabka	Steuben County	County	dkahabka@co.steuben.ny.us	607-664-2268
Southern Tier	Louise Windus	Allegany County	County	windusl@alleganyco.com	585-268-9384
Southern Tier	Kristen Van Horn	Schuyler County	County	kvanhorn@co.schuyler.ny.us	607-535-8211
Southern Tier	Steven Graham	Chenango County	County	steveng@co.chenango.ny.us	607-337-1494
Southern Tier	Dave Bubniak	Regional-Southern Tier Planning Council	Regional	gisstc@stny.rr.com	607-962-5092 x210
Southern Tier	Bill Ostrander	Tioga County	County	ostranderw@co.tioga.ny.us	607-687-8293
Southern Tier (SYNERGIS)	Ruth Aslanis	City of Ithaca	Municipality	raslanis@cityofithaca.org	607-272-1717 x233
Southern Tier (SYNERGIS)	Cattyann Campbell	Tompkins County	County	gis@tompkins-co.org	607-274-5417
WNYSGIS	Jim Jones	Town of Tonawanda	Municipality	jjones@tonawanda.ny.us	716-877-8805
WNYSGIS	Dale Morris	Erie County	County	dale.morris@erie.gov	716-858-7422
WNYSGIS	Chris Conlee	City of Buffalo	Municipality	cconlee@ch.ci.buffalo.ny.us	716-851-5583
WNYSGIS	Lisa Casey	Niagara County	County	lisa.casey@niagaracounty.com	716-439-7121
WNYSGIS	Brian Barnes	Town of Amherst	Municipality	bbarnes@amherst.ny.us	716-631-7069
WNYSGIS	Chris Holewinski	Cattaraugus County	County	cdholewinski@cattco.org	716-938-2322
WNYSGIS	Jonathan DeAngelo	Chautauqua County	County	cio@chautauquacounty.com	716-753-4800

Introduction

As an everyday part of their jobs, CIOs of large county and city governments must integrate an ever-growing and evolving variety of capabilities and technologies to ensure the effective management of computer systems serving the needs of their jurisdictions. Over the past years, CIOs have had to contend with rapidly advancing Internet services, new generations of software and programming languages, high speed telecommunications technologies, wireless communications, cloud computing, making sense of social media generated “big data”, cyber security, building information management (BIM), smart infrastructure, and a proliferation of mobile devices and PDAs. Also, ever since microcomputers sparked an explosion of computer use outside the jurisdiction of the centralized mainframe world, CIOs have had to deal sensitively with a complex environment where agency-based IT managers who did not come under the CIO’s direct control have a major hand in implementing departmental systems. Into this challenging environment, CIOs are also increasingly contending with geospatial information systems (GIS), trying to find the optimal balance between central control and laissez faire policies. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the synergies between central IT and GIS, and the role of the CIO in maximizing and measuring their benefits.

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Copyright PTI. “CIO Leadership for Cities & Counties – Emerging Trends and Practices”; second edition; to be published May 2016.

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