Attendees

 

Ex-Officio Members

MSDIS – Thomas Vought – pp

OA-ITSD – David Nykodym – pp

NSGIC – Katilin Belk – p

 

State Members

MDA – Jacque Walters – pp

DNR – Zackary Becker – p

MDC – Tim Bixler – p

MOARNG – Kaleb Bauer – p

SEMA – Sydney Roberts – p

 

Cooperating Agencies

BCFPD – Jason Warzinik – p

Boone County – Matt Smith – p

City of Jefferson – Buster Schrage – pp

Cole County – Melissa Johnson – p

Mid-MO RPC – Jennifer Bowden – p

MU Extension/CARES – Chris Barnett – p

Northeast Missouri State – Jesse Lane – p

Sanborn – Brad Arshat – p

Southeast MO State – Indi Braden – p

Bowman – Steve Kasten – pp

GISCI – Tony Spicci – p

Washington University – Mollie Webb – p

Wilson & Co – Derek Smith – p

City of Branson – Curtis Copeland – p

Lindenwood University – Tara Vansell – p

 

 

Other Attendees

Rick Staudinger

Chuck Lovelace

Dustin Goodwin

Joe Eckmann

Kayla Flamm

Jack King

David Stearns

Katie Budreski

James Rakestraw

Isaac Chandler

Josh Carey

Dan R

 

Call to Order – 10:05

 

Approval of Minutes – Motion made and seconded to approve adjusted meeting Minutes from May meeting. Motion passes unanimously.

 

Administration

 

OGI – Planning for GIS Day. Due to room availability GIS Day will be held November 17th. It would be nice to have someone from the council speak or have a booth at the event.

 

MSDIS – Order deadline June 30th. Orders going to Stuart hall but can be arranged elsewhere.

Been doing some trainings. May-June 2026

 

New Data

• The 2026 Perry County 1-inch/6-inch composite imagery service has been deployed to the

LocalGov directory of https://imagery.msdis.missouri.edu/arcgis/rest/ . Big thanks to longtime friend of the clearinghouse, Jeremy Tanz, for making this data available and for his

patience while Tom fretted over FTPs and server migrations.

 

Updated Data

• MSDIS did not receive any updated data during this reporting period.

MSDIS General News

 

MSDIS Web Presence

Thanks to support from the University of Missouri College of Arts & Science and the Office of Marketing & Communications, MSDIS is now developing a WordPress site to replace the existing msdis.missouri.edu site. The new site will be very similar to the existing site and is primarily intended to serve as a signpost to direct users to our Open Data site. There will be a few small adjustments, though.

 

In addition to the existing pages currently available on msdis.missouri.edu, we will be adding About MSDIS, MSDIS Training, and News and Events pages. This new site will not have any impact on the MSDIS Open Data site or any of our servers.

 

MSDIS Socials Media

Your Friendly Neighborhood GIS Data Clearinghouse is proud to announce its triumphant return to the world of social media. You can now follow MSDIS on both Facebook and LinkedIn. In addition to using these platforms to repost monthly updates and celebrate the successes of our student employees, you’ll also find links to purchase your very own MSDIS merch.

 

State Training

MSDIS continues to play host to state employees looking to sharpen their understanding of ArcGIS Pro and general geospatial concepts.

 

On 27 May, we hosted our very first Introduction to Spatial Analysis courses. As expected, Katilin Belk did a superb job of rolling out the new material and making it easily accessible for new learners. She also shined in the face of adversity as we experienced several unexpected technical problems resulting from the end of the Spring semester. As with all in-class instruction, we learned a lot from the first run of the new course and Katilin is already hard at work adjusting the content to better meet the needs and expectations of state employees.

 

The 02 June course was also our first attempt at a combined, all-day course that paired the original. Introduction to ArcGIS Pro and the new Introduction to Spatial Analysis courses together. This longer format has been requested by many previous course attendees. We are still pursuing the Continuing Education credits for course attendees. The next training course, which will be aimed at University of Missouri faculty, staff, and students, is scheduled for 09 June 2026. The next state employee is scheduled for 08 July 2026 and will likely be another

 

Reference Maps

We have received feedback from two of the school districts from the first round of draft maps. Their comments were in line with expectations, and Casey Hagedorn is already working on accommodating the requests to the best of our abilities.

 

MSDIS Downtime

No downtime was reported during the May/June 2026 reporting period.

 

MSDIS Traffic

This section remains pending.

 

Donate To MSDIS

Anyone wishing to directly support MSDIS can still donate to the MSDIS Excellence Fund.

As a reminder, I would like to thank both Aaron Addison and Arthur Crawford for their generous

donations to the fund.

 

 

Treasurer’s report – $33,615.21. $1,699.50 was sent for our NSGIC renewal fee. This is our budget mid cycle so it’s time to have our leadership meeting. Will get to that when Zack returns but a lot may be going on this summer with the new legislation transitioning.

 

Membership Report– 34 members 0 vacancies 18 quorum. Renewal outreach has taken place. Heard back from several that they wish to continue membership. Only half renew at a time. It is a 2 year cycle.

 

*Motion made and seconded to add Bartlett & West to membership. Motion passed unanimously.

 

Committee Reports

 

Education– Tara has a new research assistant. Connor. Updated story map. Added save the date section. Sep 10 Geo-Resolution. October 22-23 gis day. Button for geoAI symposium. Trying to provide a space to get ideas out there and get abstracts polished for other conferences. Abstract deadline August 1. Ogi gis day November 17th. Still need to get conference dates up. If anyone else has anything to put up let her know. Summer academy has kicked off but if there’s other camps open for registration let her know.

 

Legislation-sb959 July 12th before it automatically becomes law. Write to the governors office. Tim Taylor is optimistic. What happens next if passed? Will there be a state transition team? Yes. We keep operating as is until that happens. May need to set up 501c6 for the conference to help with the money side. Need to start researching this now.

 

Marketing– have been trying to fight out what this committee wants to focus on moving forward. Looking to organize October 8th in person in kc. There’s an rsvp form out there so we can get you and any dietary restrictions accounted for. Also putting together travel map. Might be prize for the furthest tragedies. June 23 there’s a geoAI webinar available. Added co chair to help facilitate the gis conference.

 

Data development– had a cam with modot to start some collaboration. If anyone is interesting interested in lidar reach out. Want to submit one application for the state.

 

Conference – Currently reviewing logo design. Gave feedback on mock up and should have final soon. Dates are set and contracts are signed. We will be putting together save-the-date material and starting social media outreach.

 

 

Liaison Report

 

NSGIC – We have renewed membership for the year. MO lidar highlight was discussed last meeting. Some updates to MSDIS lidar page. Added chart that explains quality levels. There will be some by laws changes. Special business meeting in July. Typically votes would come back to the council but not this time. If interested in what the changes are get with Kaitlin. Registration will open for mid year soon. Went up $100. Western state caucus taking place at 11. It is open to the public. Trying to get NSGIC calendar updated with what’s a public vs not public event or meeting.

 

Open Discussion – Zack is in once a week. Reach out to him about being part of the council’s transition meeting.  Esri user conference meet up for anyone going in person.

 

Adjourned – 10:55am