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Charlotte County previews public hurricane‑recovery dashboard to show status of storm‑damaged sites
Summary
County staff and consultants demonstrated a beta public dashboard that aggregates FEMA damage records and project status by site, letting residents see progress on repairs at parks and county facilities. Commissioners asked for homepage placement and links to procurement documents.
County officials on Tuesday previewed a public, interactive dashboard intended to show residents the status of hurricane recovery projects across Charlotte County.
Gordon Berger, director of budget and administrative services, introduced the tool and consultant Chris Billman of CSA Consulting Group showed a beta Power BI demonstration that consolidates FEMA damage inventories, insurance claims and project status into a single, searchable view. Billman said the dashboard will let users click a map or list to see the status of individual sites and “drill down on to look at the specific location that they’re interested in and what the progress of the work is at that location.”
The dashboard pulls county data and FEMA damage inventories into a condensed project‑status report for public consumption. Billman said the prototype lists disaster attribution and funding sources (FEMA, insurance, or both), shows statutory completion dates used for planning, and will include hyperlinks to related county pages such as procurement or project pages where an RFP or contract is posted.
Commissioners praised the concept as a transparency tool. Commissioner Constance said the dashboard “keeps everything organized” and urged staff to avoid excessive clicks; Emily Lewis, deputy county administrator, said the page can live on the county’s project‑status update page and be hyperlinked from the homepage to reduce navigation steps.
Staff said the internal data tables will live on the county’s SharePoint intranet and be published to an external site once the datasets are scaled and reviewed. Billman estimated a public launch could happen in a matter of weeks once staff populate and validate the data.
Next steps: staff will finalize data population and provide administrators a plan to place a one‑click banner or prominent link on the county homepage and to include procurement hyperlinks so residents can access contract and RFP details for specific projects.
