Minutes
Executive Committee, New Jersey Geospatial Forum
April 11, 2008
Opening
The meeting was called to order by Richard Rehmann, Chairperson, at 9:30 a.m. All members
were present except for Don Walby, Bill Bishop, and Brian Embley.
This meeting of the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Geospatial Forum is held in
compliance with N.J.S.A.10:4-6, known as the Open Public Meeting Act. Adequate notice of
this meeting has been filed with the Secretary of State and distributed to the Trenton Times, Star
Ledger, Atlantic City Press, and posted on the New Jersey Geographic Information Network
(NJGIN) site.
Previous Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the meeting of January 25, 2008, were read. Richard Rehmann moved, and Andy
Rowan seconded, to approve the minutes, as corrected. Motion passed.
Old Business
a) Previous Executive and Forum meetings. Lyna is contacting Janelle on the status of the 2007
minutes.
b) Task Forces.
David will contact Don to talk about closing the CORS Network Task Force with a final
report.
Richard will contact Dawn to talk about closing the Parcel Task Force with a final report
and summary maps.
Roger reported that the Elevation Task Force met on April 10, 2008. The focus of the
meeting was a discussion of potential standards. Monmouth County has agreed to share
their data, and the Highland Council is in discussion about sharing their data. Roger will
contact Rick Lathrop about a list of examples of LiDAR data applications and also
training possibilities.
The OPRA Task Force has completed its first meeting and is scheduling a second
meeting. Will is responsible for sending the Mission/Task Statement for the Task Force
to the Executive Committee.
A potential Strategic Plan Update Task Force was discussed. There will be an
introduction of the Task Force to the membership at the June Forum meeting. The
mission of the task force will include updating the progress since 2002 for each
framework layer. Updates on organizational structure changes (e.g., partnerships,
agreements in place, maintenance and stewardship, funding, and vertical integration)
since 2002. Technological changes in this period will be identified and discussed. Doug
Schleiffer is a likely chair and Andy Rowan will be the Executive Committee liaison.
Roger Barlow moved and Andy Rowan seconded that we establish a Strategic Plan
Update Task Force. Motion passed.
c) NJGF website listserv. The listserv exists but OGIS staff has not yet completed the updates
to the website.
New BusinessRichard Rehmann moved and Will seconded Trish Long as the replacement for
Bill Bishop. Dave will reach out to Trish.
Roger Barlow moved and John Boccino seconded to accept the following dates for the 2008-
2009 meetings:
First come, first serve, 15 presentations, send your topic to Dave by May 15, with final decisions
by the Chairperson in order to get representation of constituency, Web applications powerpoints
submitted to OGIS a week ahead.
John moved and Richard seconded 11:25.