1. Kent Stigall Division of Legislative Services

2.  Time Line Primary Issues

3. 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

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

5.  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

6.  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

7.  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 94-171 – Population data

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

9.  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!  http://redistricting.dls.virginia.gov/2010/  There is a lot of potential Only one chance