Members:

As a member of the LOGIS consortium your city has “bought in” to a number of applications and services available to consortium members.  One of your choices has been the GIS Support Service

What is the GIS Support Service?  Very simply, consider it an addition to your GIS department. Don’t have a GIS department? Please consider the LOGIS GIS staff to be your GIS department.

We expect our member cities to use the LOGIS GIS staff as your own. Along with 12 other LOGIS member cities that use our GIS Support Service you have a share in four GIS professionals with more that 35 years of combined GIS experience.  We’re at your city hall one day per week and always available by e-mail, office phone, or cell phone.  We can directly access your primary GIS data and applications through LOGIS’ wide area network and share some data and applications between servers at LOGIS and your city hall.  Our GIS staff can assist with virtually all things GIS, from simple data maintenance and GIS software install/setup to custom application development and deployment.  We can also help you review GIS related hardware and software purchase decisions, contract proposals, data acquisitions, and more.

We are not a private contractor and do not compete with private companies vying for your business.  You city pays an annual fee for LOGIS membership and services so none of the tasks and services performed by your LOGIS GIS staff result in additional cost to you.  You’re invited to get as much benefit from your annual investment in the LOGIS GIS Support Service as possible; just as you would hope to maximize your investment in any direct employee of your city.

Remember, we’re a part of your organization.  Through a joint powers agreement the LOGIS consortium is a governmental unit controlled by its members.  On a smaller scale, the LOGIS GIS Support Service is managed by its participating member cities.  We ask for your input and direction during weekly site visits and monthly LOGIS GIS User Group meetings.  We set goals and work direction based on the collective requests of our 13 participating GIS cities. 

Do you need more GIS assistance?  Let us know.  Do you have an idea or directive for your GIS Support Service?  Participate in our user group meetings.

Respectfully,

Your LOGIS GIS staff

Ben Verbick, GIS Coordinator

Keith Anderson, GIS Analyst

Alison Wieckowicz, GIS Analyst

Derek Lorbiecki, GIS Specialist

LOGIS GIS Typical Day

The LOGIS GIS support service is uniquely different from other contract support services because we exist exclusively for our member cities, created on their behalf and directed by them.  The LOGIS GIS support service has no “internal” demands so we are able to direct 100% of our efforts to the specific needs of our cities.  This mission also gives us an exceptional perspective on city government and individual departmental GIS requirements as well as inter-departmental cooperative efforts.  Our GIS support staff is very familiar with all municipal government departments and can, therefore, offer a high level of support based on direct experiences with most departments of our 13 member cities.

One LOGIS GIS staff member is assigned as your city's GIS liaison to LOGIS. That person works at your site for 4 hours per week and dedicates a proportional block of time to your city throughout the work week.  While "on-site", we will assist with managing projects and project data related to all GIS business within the city. We may be asked to participate in meetings, offer direct end-user support, assist with maintenance of datasets, offer procedures for streamlining tasks, or assist with GIS and other system integration; virtually any GIS related tasks.  Examples of a few of the wide variety of projects are...

• Assessing
  • Assessments related to Parcel development and neighborhood evaluations
• Engineering
  • Above and below ground infrastructure inventory including Water, Sanitary and Storm utilities.
  • Signage, Tree, Pavement Management and other major inventories.
• Police
  • Automated Geocoding of Crime events and Analysis.
  • Preditory Offender location and notification
• Fire
  • Automated Geocoding of Fire Events
  • Spatial Analysis of incident locations and response times
• Community Development
  • Zoning, Land Use and Guide Plan Evaluation
  • Historical Project Development

Your LOGIS GIS liaison and our entire GIS staff continu to work for you "off-site" as well. We have full connectivity to all of your server-resident GIS data and many of our member cities also share our SQL Server SDE enterprise geodatabase.  Our single domain network infrastructure allows us to optimize the use of software and databases to keep your investment in GIS technology manageable even when budgets are strained. Please check here for a full list of services provided.