A Local-State Government Spatial Data Sharing Partnership

A Local-State Spatial Data Sharing Partnership Model to Facilitate SDI Development
59 Management does not recognise a need for a full-time GIS Officer. The role is shared with
other duties. Q1g is actually only 0.75 FTE. Recently this was less than 0.5.
Management expectations of GIS are not matched with resources.
60 Resourcing is adequate for maintaining current level of GIS use within organisation but
inadequate in terms of having any coherant vision for future development of GIS unit.
61 This has to be balanced against the scale of other business activities within the organisation.
66 Council has recently decided that the GIS needs to be better supported than it has in the
past. Accordingly, it has created the fulltime GIS position and made greater provision in
annual budgets.
67 The GIS unit is under the Property & Information Services Dept which is under the umbrella
of Corporate & Community Services
70 The GIS unit provides excellent value for money
71 WE are in a position were we are still moving forward, however we could be doing more if
we had more resources
77 2 officers (assets/rates) do part time GIS, consultant does 1 day a month
79 Really need another person part time and an increase in budget for aerial photography and
software to help process M1 forms
82 GIS currently runs off an individual workstation with data backed up onto a server. Council
has just purchased version 8 of MapInfo which will be networked thus giving greater access
and flexibility to other staff in the organisation.
83 The GIS funding matches its current requirements within the council
85 tasks are always prioritised, always more things to do, section could be resourced to the hilt
but would still require more at times
96 Re Q1j - Management fully support the GIS and even use the GIS and see the potential of
the GIS yet, they don't understand the need to fund appropriate research and development,
data quality/assurance or purchase of high quality data - eg better quality imagery more
regularly etc.
98 GIS is a very fast moving and growing area of Local Government and the area will always be
craving resources to do more to provide better mapping and data collections methods for the
Shire
100 Q1k With this council having the second lowest rate base in the state, money is very tight.
Whilst there are things that could be improved with more money, it is not at this stage
hindering the development as we are still only in GIS infancy at 18 months old.
Q1b The total number of employees includes outdoor staff. There are approximately only 25
indoor staff.
103 Since Wyndham is an extremely fast growing Council the maintenance required to
adequately maintain VicMap Property and internal datasets is a time consuming process. It
was only within the last 5 months that WCC employed a 2nd full time GIS Officer. We will be
requesting another full time staff member for the capture of assets in next year’s budget.
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