Mid-Willamette Valley Regional GIS Network Project Web Page

The MWVCOG has implemented dozens of ArcView-based local agency GISs throughout Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties as part of the Mid-Willamette Valley Regional GIS Network Project. This regional effort to extend GIS into capable and interested local agencies is ongoing.

This project leverages ESRI's Local Governmental Startup grant program and the Rural Strategies Board Rural Investment Fund public sector grant to implement 15 city GISs. The main purpose of the GIS Network project is to maximize business efficiencies in rural city governments while minimizing the effects of excessive growth on these same agencies. This will be done by providing each city with a productivity tool, a GIS (Geographic Information System). This tool will empower city decision makers, staff and citizens with current information about their community. The second goal of this project is to establish the regional "informational infrastructure" necessary to facilitate additional investment into the Regional GIS data sets and standards.

The MWVCOG can also help local agencies with their purchases of ESRI software and Azteca Cityworks software.

Please contact Juan Carlos Torres at 503.588.6177 for more information about these services and programs.