# Presentation: 258094

## GIS in Mecklenburg County 

**GIS in Mecklenburg County**** **
**December 2, 1999**

**Executive Briefing for**
**State and Local Initiatives Division**
**Office of the Assistant Secretary for**
**Planning and Evaluation**

## The Partners

**Central Piedmont Community College**
**Charlotte Chamber of Commerce**
**Charlotte Housing Authority**
**Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools**
**City of Charlotte**
**Mecklenburg County**
**Mecklenburg Ministries**
**North Carolina DSS Child Support Enforcement**
**North Carolina Employment Security Commission**
**North Carolina Division of Social Services**
**Novant Health Inc., Presbyterian Healthcare**
**United Way of the Central Carolinas**

**Charlotte-Mecklenburg Resolves II**

**The Partners**

## CUSTOMER

_**CUSTOMER**_

** ****Participants**

**Citizens**

**Communities**

**  **
**  ****Economic Services**
**  ****Mental Health**
**  ****Substance Abuse**
**  ****Child and Adult Abuse**
**  ****Detention Facilities and****    Rehabilitation Programs for Inmates**
**  ****Recreation**
**  ****Culture and Literacy**
**  ****Work Ethic**

**Mecklenburg County Government**

**  ****Education**
**  ****Cultural Enrichment**
**  ****Prevention**
**  ****Social Support**
**  ****Crisis Intervention**
**  ****Work Ethic**

**Non-Profit Community**

**  ****Child Support**
**  ****Criminal Justice**
**  ****Benefits Issuance**
**  ****Employment  Services**
**  ****Work Ethic**

**State of North Carolina**

** **
** **
**  ****Affordable Housing**
**  ****Safe Environment**
**  ****Movement towards****    Self Sufficiency**
**  ****Work Ethic**

**Charlotte Housing Authority**

**  ****Early Education**
**  ****Academics**
**  ****Job Readiness**
**  ****Work  Ethic**

**Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools**

**  ****Neighborhood Development**
**  ****Infrastructure**
**  ****Safe Environment**
**  ****Transportation**
**  ****Economic Development**
**  ****Planning Land Use**
**  ****Work Ethic**

**Charlotte City Government**

**  ****Community Based Education**
**  ****Work Force Development**
**  ****Work Ethic**

**Central Piedmont**** Community College**

**  **
**  ****Marketing for Work First**
**  ****Economic  Development**
**  ****Work Ethic**

**Chamber of Commerce**

**  **
**  ****Social  Support**
**  ****Work  Ethic**
**  ****Spirituality**

**Mecklenburg Ministries**

**Faith Community**

## GIS in Health and Human Services in Mecklenburg County, 

**GIS**** in Health and Human Services in Mecklenburg County, **
**North Carolina**

## Mecklenburg County GIS 

**Mecklenburg County ****GIS**** **

***“******Helping County Agencies Help Themselves And Their Customers.”***

## GIS:  A Working Definition

**GIS:****  A Working Definition**

**   ****A computer system consisting of hardware and software that utilizes relational database technology and a topological data structure to allow the integration of raster and vector spatial data with tabular information for display, edit, query, analysis, combination, creation, maintenance, and management of geographic data sets in an environment that is customizable to meet the application needs of the users, forming a powerful network of information that facilitates the sharing of data for better decision-making.**

## Components of a Health And Human Services GIS database...

**Environmental Data**

**Soils**

**Water Resources**

**Hazardous Sites**

**Air Quality**

**Schools**

**City**

**Base Maps**

**Planimetric Data**

**Cadastral Data**

**County Core Business**

**Mental Health**

**Public Health**

**Social Services**
**Park & Recreation**
**Library**
**Sheriff**

**Public Safety**

**Crime**

**Emergency**

**Response**

**Leases/Permits/Licenses**

**Building Codes**

**Zoning**

**Land Use Plans**

**Rights-of-Way**

**Historic/Cultural Resources**

**Housing**

**Local**

**Government ****GIS**

**Database**

**City Transit**
**Fire**
**Neighborhood**
**Development**
**Engineering**

## Why Use GIS?

**  ****	****Maps are hard to refute-build                  ****	****credibility**
** ****	****Maps generate interest-people ****	****	****	****want to see “where the action is”**

**Why Use ****GIS?**

## $60 Million Investment In Center City Schools

**$60 Million Investment In Center City Schools**

## Focus on City Within A City

**Focus on City Within A City**

## Thomasboro Neighborhood

**Thomasboro Neighborhood**

## Thomasboro

**Thomasboro**

**Thomasboro Elementary School Is The Only School In Mecklenburg County That Did Not Meet State Academic Standards This Year.**

## Mixed Land-Use

**Small Business/Residential**

**Light Industrial**

## Re-Development

**Multi-Family**

**Single Family**

## Threatened Neighborhood

**Threatened Neighborhood**

## THOMASBORO:  

**THOMASBORO:****  **
**Distribution of Delinquent Real Estate Tax, Violent and Property Crime, 1998.**

## THOMASBORO:  

**THOMASBORO:****  **
**Distribution of Social Services Customers.**

##    	Maps are Useful for... Targeting Service Delivery

**   ****	****Maps are Useful for... Targeting Service Delivery**

**Children Receiving TANF Age 4 for Bright Beginnings Recruitment**

**N=1509**

## Directing Policy Decisions

**   ****	**

**Directing Policy Decisions**

- Expansion of Bus Service

## Outputs:  Health and Human Services Applications

***Location Analysis***

***Research***

***Demographics***

**GIS**

## Changes in the Distribution of the TANF Caseload

**Changes in the Distribution of the TANF Caseload**

**   ****This map shows the geographic center for each time period.**** **
**	****The caseload shifted approximately .15 miles east between May 1997 and November 1998.**

## Mobility of Individuals Receiving Work First Cash Assistance

**Mobility of Individuals Receiving Work First Cash Assistance**

- The average distance moved was 4 miles.

**Customer Mobility Is Analyzed Between 2 Points In Time.**

## After-School Programming

**After-School Programming**

## Children In Physical Custody

**Children In Physical Custody**

## Social Services Taxi Customers

**Social Services Taxi Customers**

**Data Displayed by Customer’s Zip Code.**

## Community Social Work

**Community Social Work**

**Senior Programs at Neighborhood Churches**

## Social Services and Land-use Planning

**Social Services and Land-use Planning**

**Locating Adult/Child Daycare at Transportation Hubs.**

## Mecklenburg County:  Investment in GIS

**	****Mecklenburg County’s Information Systems And Technology Department**** ****has**** ****budgeted $403,500 in**** ****GIS**** ****expenditures for the 1999-2000 Fiscal Year.**

## GIS: Creating the Infrastructure

- 	**Mecklenburg County has made a significant commitment to ****GIS****.**
**	****The County is committed to an agency-wide enterprise ****GIS**** strategy.**
**	****Health and Human Services uses coverages created by Engineering and Building Standards, Police and the Planning Commission.**

## GIS: Health and Human Services

- 	**We overlay our client data on top of these coverages.**
**	****We employ a Planner/Evaluator who spends 2/3 time using ArcView software.**
**	****The payoff comes after the investment in learning the software and becoming proficient in its use.**
**	****GIS**** helps us with operational **
- 	**and policy decisions.**

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