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Commission plans updated cultural-asset inventory, GIS training and possible student intern support
Summary
The cultural asset committee will update the city's inventory of cultural assets, schedule GIS training with the city’s new GIS technician and consider hiring a university student or intern to assist with documentation and story maps.
The Bangor Cultural Commission’s cultural asset committee plans to update a multi-year inventory of the city’s cultural assets and to expand interactive story maps for public engagement.
Barbara McDavid, chair of the cultural asset committee, said the committee’s two main tasks are maintaining a list of city cultural assets (parks, statues, historic places, businesses and galleries) and completing online storyboards and interactive elements the commission started several years ago. Betsy noted the Downtown Bangor Partnership has moved to a more user-friendly “proxy map” tool that supports gamification and easier public interaction, and said items from the city’s technical ArcGIS inventory can be exported to a proxy map for simpler public use.
Staff said John Miller, the city’s new GIS technician, is willing to provide training to the asset committee. Sarah McClelland, community and economic development assistant and staff support for the commission, told members Miller "is very, very willing to come to an asset committee meeting and do a training." The group discussed using a simple field app to allow volunteers or interns to record condition, vandalism or update notes in the field that would feed into the central inventory.
Commissioners discussed funding a university student to do updated documentation and story-map work. Betsy recalled a past effort that used a graduate student and outside contractor support and recommended seeking a modest stipend; staff suggested $2,000 as a realistic stipend to attract student work. One commissioner said the commission could request separate funding from the Business and Economic Development Committee (as it did previously) rather than drawing from the commission’s base allocation.
Ending: The cultural asset committee will reconvene in February to plan the inventory update and schedule GIS training with the city GIS technician; staff will explore funding options for a student internship and report back at a future meeting.
