City’s GIS expansion adds asset management, public dashboards and wastewater map

Romero Ramos, the city’s GIS manager, briefed the City Council on a series of information‑technology and mapping upgrades the city has deployed and plans to expand.

Ramos said the city installed ArcGIS Enterprise across seven servers, added ArcGIS Monitor and implemented single sign‑on. The GIS team is also implementing an asset management system — replacing an older Cityworks scope with Trimble Unity Maintain — after a detailed requirements process increased the expected number of distinct work orders from roughly 40 to about 760. Ramos said the city now expects approximately 35 software licenses for field staff and anticipates completing the asset management rollout by the end of the second quarter (staff did not specify calendar year in the presentation).

Ramos described several desktop and web applications already in production: a wastewater infrastructure map (manholes, sewer mains), a traffic‑conditions app that displays closures and detours, and an interactive pavement‑conditions dashboard that shows PCI and ride‑quality ratings. He said the pavement data shown in the dashboard is from 2024 and that an internal (staff‑only) version differs from the public portal; the team plans to publish a refined public dashboard once departments complete a verification workflow.

The presentation also noted integrations with AutoCAD for ArcGIS and Nearmap imagery, a CCTV RFP that the GIS team helped scope, and plans to expand applications for economic development, zoning, parks and open data. Ramos said the GIS web portal on the city website includes help videos and select guided tours for popular applications.

Council members praised the initiative and asked for public tutorials; Ramos said general tutorial videos are already posted on the GIS help section and that select applications have their own shorter demos. He and staff also described a short‑term roadmap and five strategic objectives that will guide further GIS development.

Taper: Ramos asked council to expect staged rollouts and further internal testing; departments including public services and community development will continue to provide data updates for public publication.