00:01Next, we want to change things up a little.

00:03So far, most of our attention has been looking inward at our organization and how we can use all these tools.

00:09But we want to expand our scope. We want to reach out and say, well, how would we engage with the public?

00:14Citizen engagement, transparency. Well, for the City of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the answer is ArcGIS for Local Government.

00:22So please welcome the city's GIS manager, Ian Wint.

00:25Thank you, John. I'll start with a brief overview of the environment at Ft. Lauderdale.

00:36Ft. Lauderdale is a municipality with extraordinary community involvement.

00:42Our constituents want government transparency and access to information.

00:47At the same time, Ft. Lauderdale, like many other municipalities, has been impacted by the anemic economy.

00:55This, of course, has led to mantras such as "tighten the belt" and "do more with less."

01:01Fortunately for us, we've discovered ArcGIS for Local Government.

01:06I'll share with you two ArcGIS for Local Government application templates we've implemented.

01:12I'll also share two others that are currently in the works.

01:16The Park and Recreation Finder application template was one of the earlier ones we implemented.

01:22We did this because our residents view their park system with a great sense of civic pride.

01:28The mere presence of a nearby neighborhood park is a plus for property values.

01:34Now, we used this template to replace a previous ArcIMS application.

01:39We had it completely functional in a matter of days.

01:43Had we not used the template, the development effort would've taken months.

01:48Now, this next application was built from the My Government Services template.

01:54The idea here is to provide a convenient location where residents and prospective residents...

01:59...may learn about services that are available to them.

02:04So what we're looking at here are sanitation curbside pickup schedules for an address...

02:11...public school assignments for that same address, and then the location of emergency facilities.

02:19And in the case of facility locations, the application provides turn-by-turn driving directions.

02:27Now I'll move over to my iPad, where I'll share with you the two application templates that are currently in the works.

02:35The beach is the impetus for the first of these two templates. Our beach is an economic resource for us, and as such...

02:43...it's important that we continue to keep it an inviting place.

02:47Currently, we have a staff member who patrols the beach twice weekly looking for infrastructure damages...

02:55...and also the occasional ocean debris that's washed ashore.

03:01Now I'll also share with you even smaller items, such as small graffiti on a utility box, well, that's no trivial matter to us.

03:13Now, the reason for considering this template is to empower the community...

03:18...with the ability to assist us in our beach monitoring efforts.

03:22I should also add, our police department is interested in repurposing this template...

03:29...to allow the community to report nonemergency incidents.

03:33Now, we're looking forward to this next application template with tremendous anticipation.

03:40It is an executive dashboard designed primarily for the iPad.

03:46The idea here is to provide executive management with quick access to information.

03:51The actual idea itself was conceived by the GIS staff at the City of Boston, but it still does apply to us.

03:59For instance, our police chief would benefit greatly from having 24/7 access to maps showing crime hot spot areas.

04:10In addition to that, it would support the department's Predictive Policing initiative.

04:16The police chief might also benefit from being able to convey the specific location of problem areas...

04:23...to the city manager and the elected officials. And as far as the city manager and the elected officials...

04:30...they too would have quick access to information in a staff meeting or a community meeting.

04:37Now, what I'll show in a second is that the application does have basic trend analysis capabilities...

04:44...to evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.

04:49Now, this next feature is possibly my favorite.

04:52If you look to the right, you'll see that the application has a configurable news feed as well as a configurable Twitter feed.

05:00This would allow executive management to easily stay abreast of discussions about the city. How cool is that?

05:09Now, what we found with ArcGIS for Local Government is that it's allowed us to migrate away from older applications.

05:21It's allowed us to deploy more applications in less time; but perhaps more importantly, ArcGIS for Local Government...

05:29...with the introduction of the executive dashboard, allows us an opportunity to put GIS directly in the hands...

05:37...of those who control the budget. Thank you, John.

05:44Thanks, Ian. The City of Ft. Lauderdale is a great example of leveraging ArcGIS for Local Government...

05:51...but it's also a great example of an idea that was born here a year ago when the City of Boston was on this very stage...

05:58...talking about their ideas for the future, so how we can use this conference to take the good ideas and share them amongst ourselves.