The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners on Sept. 4 approved two GIS data‑sharing agreements that allow outside companies to license county mapping layers for mapping and analysis. County staff said the mapping vendor WTH (Where Technology Happens) provided the draft agreements; the two requestors named in the documents were CoreLogic, a property-data company, and Orion Renewables, which requested addresses and parcel layers.

A commissioner moved to approve the agreements as presented. The motion passed after a voice vote; no nays were recorded in the transcript. Meeting discussion described the agreements as licenses to use county GIS layers rather than transfers of nonpublic records, and staff said the data are public-record mapping layers. Staff also said modest fees in the agreements are intended to cover administrative costs.

During the meeting a speaker noted the fee amounts recorded in the draft agreements; the transcript reported figures mentioned in discussion as about $1,500 and smaller per-layer amounts. County staff described the payment as largely to offset administrative expenses: "it's mostly just to cover administrative cost," an attendee said in the meeting.

The agreements were described as similar in form, with the main differences in the specific GIS layers to be licensed. Staff indicated the county has executed similar layering arrangements previously and expects more requests as statute and mapping practice evolve.

Ending: The board approved the agreements and directed staff to finalize execution of the contracts and return copies to the board for the public record.