Kent Stigall Division of Legislative Services

 Time Line Primary Issues

Conceptualization (using a crystal ball)  Web based  Not possible given the technology, application and time.  Intranet  Anywhere in Capitol Square  Legislators offices in the General Assembly Building  Neither are reasonable  Workstations  Type, quantity, location  Software platform  ArcGIS and AutoBound (CityGate GIS)  Producing paper maps  Plotter and color printers

 Website  Minimum requirements  “Transparency” in government  Public comments  Define resources Conceptualization continued

 Staffing  Individual user support  Over 140 bosses  Technical staff (system analyst, programmer, developer, help desk, procurement specialist, budgeting, GIS technician, security, report writing, database analyst, sergeant at arms)  Wearing many hats (some made of iron)  Training Personnel

 Possibly delivered the 2nd week in October then  1 st week of November then  3 rd week of November finally  Arrives 1 st of December  About 5 gig used in redistricting Virginia  285,762 census blocks  2,373 precincts  134 localities  815,067 roads Geography

 Delivery  February 3rd  Quantity of data  288 race fields  Data Issues  Population erroneously assigned  Norfolk with 11,000+ wrongly assigned  New data comes without all the data fields  Linking data to geography  Census Bureau throws knuckle ball  Follows up with a fastball PL – Population data

 Voter registration data  Over 5 million addresses for each year  It takes time to geocode  Historical election data  Disaggregating and building  Imperfect Building data

 Application expertise  Software vendors are very limited  No real experience with the data  We have more experience than any developer  Many “LITTLE” issues  Virginia’s redistricting web site  ArcIMS web site in 2001 and still running in 2011  It was cutting edge at the time  Delay in starting development  March 29 th is our Black Tuesday!   There is a lot of potential Only one chance