A Local-State Government Spatial Data Sharing Partnership

Appendix4 – Open Ended Questionnaire Responses
Appendix 4 – Open Ended Questionnaire Responses
Case Summaries – Part 1 Comments on Organisation and Resourcing
Case# Part 1 comments
1 As the GIS system is still in the process of being implemented, limited resources have been
allocated.
4 The GIS must deliver business value in order to sustain management support and a level of
funding that is required. Budget is closely scrutinised as part of the overall ICT spend
8 We are just adequately resourced for maintaining existing systems. Additional resources
are required to make improvements to systems, replace legacy systems, update
technologies etc.
9 Loadings on some divisional staff is high.
11 By delivering business focused outcomes over the last decade GIS has been integrated into
the main decision making process of most Council functions - this why the funding is good
12 I feel, that GIS is not fully appreciated and/or understood by Council; consequently it is not
utilised to its fullest extent
16 Primarily, GIS within Council suffers due to the lack of a full time officer able to do the day to
day things, but also provide strategic guidance.
20 Could use an extra staff member so that time can be spent on the existing system so that it
can be expanded and improved. All current time spent on maintaining the status quo and
slowly falling behind.
24 Agree due to the maturity of GIS within ICC. We are well resourced for the maintenance
activities that is carried out for the support of GIS within ICC.
28 Resourced in line with budgetary constraints of small LG
30 Although staff and managers insist that GIS is crucial to their business, they don’t want to
invest a lot of money in it. They rather spend their limited budgets on their own areas of
interest within their Branch. This often causes resourcing issues for GIS because Managers
often under-estimates the GIS component of a project even when we provide then with
realistic expectations.
32 organisational location of GIS is currently under review - this issue has been hanging for
some time
34 need to purchase data capture equipment (GPS units, pda's) to help maintain data integrity
38 Adequate resourcing has only happened recently after a great deal of confidence building by
the GIS team. The major impediment to this has been the historical practice of recruiting
staff from within Council leading to a very insular view of what GIS was all about and what it
could actually do.
41 While the core GIS business unit is well located and well resourced within IT, other business
units have their own GIS assets. Eg: The Corporate Asset Information Team belongs to
'Finance' and operates the Asset Data Capture team. 'Planning & Policy' operate a Spatial
Analysis Unit. All of these are service clients of the Spatial and Asset Systems team, which
maintains the geodatabases, infrastructure and the website.
46 "The GIS resides in the following configuration - Corporate Services, Corporate Information
& Support, Land information. The Unit is not part of IT.
55 Impossible for one person to update our own cadastre as well as most other layers and
admin tasks of GIS officer. However we do have a Hydraulics GIS person in another
department adding in hydraulics (independently!)
57 There are always additional products that could be provided, or data to be collected, to
assist officers with their work and so additional resources are always being sought. Also,
continual technological and software improvements mean upgrades are regularly sought.
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