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County seeks a junior GIS analyst housed with water authority to accelerate stormwater inventory and mapping
Summary
Spalding County officials proposed hiring a junior GIS analyst/technician to be a county employee located within the Water Authority to support stormwater mapping and other county needs; staff said only about 5% of the county's stormwater inventory is currently recorded and that a full stormwater program could take about 18 months to develop.
County officials described a plan to create a junior geographic information systems (GIS) analyst or technician to support county stormwater mapping, public works, community development and tax-assessor needs. The position would be a county employee housed within the Spalding County Water Authority so the new hire could be trained and supervised by the water authority’s established GIS team while the county funds the position through Community Development.
The board was told the county currently has a small fraction of its stormwater infrastructure inventoried. A county staff member said, “we only have about 5% of our stormwater inventory inventoried across the county,” and argued…
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