Item B4BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: August 20, 2008 Division: Growth Management
Bulk Item: Yes X No
Department:
Staff Contact: Andrew Trivette
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Presentation of Recognition Award to Kimberly Rohrs, Sr. GIS Planner, Growth Management Division
for hei7 continued efforts to promote the GIS office of Monroe County.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
The Division would like to recognize the continued efforts of Ms. Rohrs toward promoting the GIS
office of Monroe County. Faced with budgetary shortfalls and staffing deficits she manages to further
the mission, vision and values of the both Division and the County in the execution of her duties. Kim
is an employee who knows the value of extending beyond the status quo and has an endless thirst for
exceeding expectations.
Ms. Rohrs most recent success and the reason for our desired recognition is an article published in the
April 2008 edition of American City and County magazine featuring the endeavors of the Monroe
County GIS office within the Division of Growth Management to apply recently acquired high
resolution digital photography toward new planning initiatives.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: n/a
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES: n/a
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: Approval
TOTAL COST: n/a BUDGETED: Yes No
COST TO COUNTY: SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION: Included x Not Required___ ..
DISPOSITION:
Revised 11 /06
AGENDA ITEM #
MEMORANDUM
MONROE COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT DIVISION
We strive to be caring, professional and fair
To: Roman Gastesi
County Administrator �A lVt.
From: Andrew O. Trivette s�
Growth Management Division Director's
Date: June 3, 2008
RE: Employee Recognition (other)
The intent of this memo is to comply with the requirements of Administrative Instruction
4902.1 regarding the recognition of an employee outside of ESA, EOY or YOS awards.
Employee Name: Kimberly (Kim) Rohrs
Hire Date: 1 /22,`02
Title: Senior GIS Planner
Office Location: Plantation Key Government Center
The Division would like to recognize the continued efforts of Ms. Rohrs toward
promoting the GIS office of Monroe County. Faced with budgetary shortfalls and
staffing deficits she manages to further the mission, vision and values of the both
Division and the County in the execution of her duties. Kim is an employee who knows
the value of extending beyond the status quo and has an endless thirst for exceeding
expectations.
Ms. Rohrs most recent success and the reason for our desired recognition is an article
published in the April 2008 edition of American City and County magazine featuring the
endeavors of the Monroe County GIS office within the Division of Growth Management
to apply recently acquired high resolution digital photography toward new planning
initiatives.
The Division commends Ms. Rohrs on her ability to promote the efforts of the GIS
office, the Division and Monroe County.
Enclosure
cc: Debbie Frederick, Deputy County Administrator
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Fresh island perspective
County corrects geographic data with precise photography.
Ithough it is hard to dispute the beauty of the Florida Keys lush veg-
Project:
etation and vibrant colors, the coastal nature of the region presents
"The
prthohotoraphallenges h
p g y
cwhen surveyors want to map the area. orientation of
the islands has made it very difficult [to create] a uniform, detailed
integration
base map upon which to build other essential data layers, such as an
curate parcel layer," says Kim Rohrs, a senior geographic informa-
Jurisdiction:
tion systems (GIS) planner for Monroe County's Growth Management Division.
Monroe County, Fla.
Without a solid anchor point, our data layers were kind of floating in the GIS.
Monroe County incorporates the Florida Keys, a necklace of about 822 islands.
Agency:
Thousands of visitors become full•time residents each year, keeping the Monroe
Growth
County Property Appraiser and the Growth Management Division busy maintain-
ing property data and planning for growth. Both tasks, however, have been difficult
Management
to manage effectively, Rohrs says, because of geospatial data inconsistencies and
Division
inaccuracy caused by the islands` difficult terrain.
In late 2005, the county and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
Vendors:
District VI pooled resources to acquire aerial imagery to build a seamless base map.
Dayton Ohio -based
They commissioned Dayton, Ohio -based Woolpert to produce high•resolution
,
orthophotographs of the 843 square miles of the Florida Keys. Field crews began set-
Wool pert; Atla nta-
ting surveying controls on the ground in February 2006, and then a Leica ADS40
based Leica
sensor collected both true color and false -color infrared imagery aerially. Leica
GPro software and a digital terrain model were used to process the digital imagery
Geosystems•
into a seamless mosaic of half -foot resolution orthophotos. By February 2007, the
county and FDOT began integrating the imagery with the county's ESRI ArcG1S
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Redlands, Calif.-
and FDOT's Microstation and ESRI ArcMap software.
based ESRI • Exton
The datasets have been used to help build a common, precise base map of the
region. Users have identified scores of inaccuracies in previous data, but now they
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Pa. -based Bentley
can rectify them. Most importantly, Rohrs says, they have the core they need to
Systems
begin managing the area's growth. "Because we didn't have a good base map to
work from, we were relatively stagnant in our development and planning," Rohrs
Date:
says. "We were just maintaining the status quo. The [new] imagery has completely
February 2007
re -energized the department and allowed us to begin a number of new planning
initiatives:'
The imagery is being shared with other agencies, and the county aims to develop
t
a central GIS' sito7, complete .with..the-oithoto base map, for gther-agen-
Cost:
$350,000 ,
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