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Council debates state GIS grant: allocation priorities, fairness for towns
Summary
Council staff described a state-funded GIS (geographic information systems) grant aimed at updating parcel and camera datasets; members from larger, MS4-mapped towns pushed back on draft allocations and the priority-based grant structure.
At the April 10 meeting of the Northwest Hills Council of Governments, staff described a Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)-linked GIS grant program funded with ARPA dollars and aimed at improving the currency and completeness of parcel and camera-linked GIS data across member towns.
The program as presented is structured as a grant to the COG, not a pass-through. Staff said $254,100 was available through the ARPA-derived program and the grant prioritizes (1) recency of data, (2) match rates between parcel and camera datasets, and (3) completeness of attribute fields. Towns were told a draft work plan with draft allocations had been submitted to the state GIS office in late March and staff was awaiting approval or feedback before distributions…
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