Advanced Communications and Information Technology - House

That one still a work in progress and so on one hand the Committee over to our very capable vice chair and I'm gonna head down to the end of the table. The representative makes. We please introduce yourself for the record. good morning committee representative Stephen Meeks and with me is a director shall B. Johnson over at GIS and this morning representing to House Bill thirteen twenty eight this is simply a government efficiency bill back in two thousand to two thousand three they set up the Arkansas spatial data infrastructure and I was a project that took on about ten years twelve years or so to complete and so there was a raw in statute a report that was required to be submitted to this committee yearly to give somebody a progress report on the building of that infrastructure that infrastructure is in place has been in place for the last ten years and so this report is no longer needed so this is just an opportunity to free them up from having to present this report to us since the infrastructure is in place so with that we will take any questions from the committee. Any questions from the committee. President of hockey recognize so no reported all not even like like every five year report or anything like that it just is not just not necessarily assume it is not necessary so that the purpose of the report was progress on getting the the infrastructure set up just to make sure it was being set up and how so and it's been set up and it's been set up for at least ten years so it's basically we get a report every year that says that the database is up and running so it just it did superfluous at this point. Representative brown you're recognized. Thank you Mr chair What is spatial data can you just tell us what they see as our pass it over to the expert. Thank you representative brown instead any anything that you might imagine that needs to go on the map it is in the big difference is that we put it into or the into the servers that the system resides on so roads addresses tax parcels your house district school board's owns any of your election yarder fee soils terrain aerial imagery it's information about Arkansas that goes on map and then we we where how's it publish it and make it available for all of our state to be able to use and take advantage of just one follow up does it include the mud slide areas. That is a level of detail that we do not have our colleagues over at the Geological Survey work on that but that's something that we don't have in the statewide platform hi this just kind of amazed at how big deal the mud slides are in Arkansas I mean I didn't even know we had any yep we sure do thank you. I learned something new today. Any other questions from the committee. Anyone in the audience signed up to speak for against the bill. CNN representative makes your a recognized close for your bill our close for the bill and I'll make a motion to pass. All right we have a motion do pass all in favor. All opposed. Congratulations representative makes you passed your bill thank you Committee. All right so I will commend our vice chair that is very first time doing a committee to very good jobs on this roster thank you all right colleagues I having nothing else to come before the committee we are adjourned.