Meeting Minutes

							                                      Meeting Minutes
                                New Jersey Geospatial Forum
                                Executive Committee Meeting
                                     February 10, 2006
Attendees:

       Roger Barlow – Federal Government
       Richard Carlson, Jr. – NJ Professional Land Surveyor
       Joel Falk – Regional Authority/MPO
       Jim Girvan – County Government
       Richard Rehmann – Private Sector
       Andy Rowan – NJ OGIS, State GIO
       Rob Sparkes – Municipal Government (via telephone)
       Larry Thornton – State Government
       Lyna Wiggins – NJ University, College, K-12
       Alison Hayes – Guest, Member NGO Constituency Group

The meeting was called to order at 1:20pm with a reading of the Open Public Meetings Act.

The minutes from the January 10, 2006 Executive Committee (EC) were not yet available for
approval.

Old Business:

1. Bylaws Modification
Specific language regarding proposed changes to the Bylaws was presented and modified by the
group until a consensus was reached. A motion to amend the Bylaws as discussed passed
unanimously.

ACTION: Jim Girvan to complete edits to Bylaws document and submit for posting to NJGIN.

2. Task Forces
There was a brief discussion on each of the following Task Forces:
Elevation – Work continuing.
Parcels – Work ongoing with parcel inventory. At this point, the thought is to continue with
data collection with the future possibility of coordinating with RAMONA.
Transportation – Group is winding down with recommendation report being drafted.
Public Safety – EC to look at recommendations, which are yet to be submitted.
Partnerships – Group has met to develop goals, still needs to focus on specific tasks.

A motion to create the “CORS Network Task Force” with Josh Greenfeld as the Task Force
Chair and Rich Carlson as the Executive Committee Liaison was unanimously approved.

A motion to create the “2007 Orthoimagery Task Force” with the Task Force Chair yet to be
determined and Andy Rowan as the Executive Committee Liaison was unanimously approved.

ACTION: A notice to the NJGF membership will be sent announcing the creation of these two
new Task Forces.

The idea of posting Task Force agendas, minutes, reports, etc… to each respective Task Force
section on NJGIN was discussed. The Executive Committee would need to approve this content.
Jim Girvan left the meeting at 2:30pm.

3. NJGF website / communication
Andy Rowan updated the group on efforts to improve the NJGIN communication system which
are ongoing. Everyone agreed that the emerging Yahoo GIS interest groups are complimentary
to the NJGF core mission and in no way present a conflict or redundancy.

New Business:

1. Roger Barlow announced that the CAP category 5 proposal submitted to the FGDC had been
received.

2. There was a brief discussion regarding technical and other issues surrounding the proposed
municipal boundary layer update.

The meeting adjourned 2:50pm.

Next Meetings:
Geospatial Forum, June 2, 2006, 10:00am NJOIT ITC Room RiverView Building #300
Executive Committee, April 7, 2006 9:30am NJOIT OGIS 200 RiverView Plaza Room 303

Respectfully submitted: Joel T. Falk, Secretary, Executive Committee, NJ Geospatial Forum