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= 1P ANALYSIS: The'Department of Utility Services utilizes on a daily basis parcel maps and data from the Property Appraiser's Office for existing, current, and future assessments. In meeting the requirements under the Comprehensive Plan for connection to water and wastewater and availability of facilities for concurrency, the Department's growing need to adequately respond to requests for information is to computerize its existing facilities utilizing the Property Appraiser's maps as a base. The addition of existing utility facilities to the base will give Indian River County the beginning of an integrated Geographical Information System. Major functions of the system will be (in addition to mapping of water and wastewater systems): * Tracking of data by parcels for assessment projects (over 7,000) in the next four years. * Water and wastewater facilities management for mains, manholes, valves, hydrants, meters, water services, sewer laterals, and lift stations. * Tracking of both water and wastewater plant capacity by regional systems. * Facilities inventory of both water and wastewater systems (pipe size, type, date installed, maintenance history, etc.). The Department of Utility Services proposes to install a Geographical Information System that will network with the Property Appraiser's RS/6000 and AS/400. The system proposed by the Department of Utility Services would utilize ARC/Info Software in order for Utility Services to utilize the Property Appraiser's tax maps and parcel information. The Department of Utility Services' proposed system and existing AS/400 would network with the Property Appraiser's AS/400 and RS/6000. This network -would interface the Property Appraiser's Office (maps, parcel data), Department of Utility Services (maps, facilities data, facilities location, customer data), and Planning Department (planning and concurrency data bases), when connected to the system. This approach will take advantage not only of the informational data available on the Property Appraiser's RS/6000 and AS/400 but also will allow for the access of data that otherwise would have to be copied and maintained separately. In addition, it will allow for future integration and expandability through additional networking with the other departments in the County. All hardware and software that is available would*be purchased under the State of Florida equipment contract. The Department would propose to contract the GIS Technical Tasks sole source with IBM and ESRI (ARC -Info) due to the technical aspects of the interconnection between the Property Appraiser's AS/400 and RS/6000 systems and the Department of Utility Services' system. A brief description of the installation is as follows: Installation of the GIS hardware and software set forth in the attached proposed budget would network Utilities Services with the Property Appraisers Department, including use of the County tax base maps. This will enable the Department to enter its water and sewer facilities data into the system. This use would consist of Utilities Services' facilities_ and data being external and would be available to Public Works and Planning Departments as a part of the network. Completion of the installation will put into place the necessary hardware and software for the Utilities Services Department to become an integral part of a future County -wide departmental GIS network. The Department will continue to utilize digitizer as a part of the system. This primarily for departmental requirements. G JAN 14 1992 its existing plotter and equipment will be utilized