Call to order- 10:02am

Attendees
Ex-Officio Members
MSDIS – Thomas Vought – p
OA-ITSD-OGI – David Nykodym – p

State Members
MDA – Jacque Walters – p
DNR – Zackary Becker – p
MDC – Tim Bixler – p
MOARNG – Kaleb Bauer – p
MoDOT – Sarah Rowell – p
SEMA – Lucious Creamer – pp

Cooperating Members
All State Consultants – Katilin Belk – p
BCFPD – Ryan Rhee – p
Boone County – Matt Smith – p
City of Columbia – Calvin Patterson – p
Cole County – Melissa Johnson – p
Mid-MO RPC – Jennifer Bowden – p
MO 911 Board – Shawn Penman – p
MU Extension/CARES – Chris Barnett – p
Northwest Missouri State – Jesse Lane – p
Bowman – Steve Kasten – p
GISCI – Tony Spicci – pp
Washington University – Mollie Webb – p
Wilson & Co. – Derek Smith – p

Other Attendees
Stephen Frankel
Ben Taylor
Rob Ryan
Bill Hartnett
Ryan Wallace
Zackary Szczepaniak
Nick Allen
Nathan White
Raven Kuehn
Morgan Holtmeyer
Nathanael Bassett
Noah Butler
Jack King
Kayla Flamm
Ibrahim Gumel
Scott Thompson
Christopher Michael
Richard Staudinger

Approval of minutes- tabled

OGI report- OGI supports all the consolidated state agencies GIS except MoDOT and MDC. Recently posted new redistricting boundaries for congressional districts to MSDIS. There will be some new positions opening soon for the office. Also wiring on a state employee training session on how to use MSDIS.

MSDIS report- September 2025

New Data

•The individual DEM and LAZ tiles for the USGS SEMO 11 County LiDAR collection have been added to the Latest Available MO LiDAR Index of The Missouri Map. These new files can now be downloaded individually. An image service has not yet been deployed. See Appendix I for a rough map of the current area of the collection.

Updated Data

•Missouri Dept of Conservation Trails
•HB1 Missouri Congressional Districts 2025
•MoDOT 2025 September Update
oMoDOT Routes
oMoDOT Arcs
oMoDOT Functional Classes
oMoDOT Commuter Lots
oMoDOT Emergency Reference Markers
oMoDOT Rest Areas

MSDIS General News

MSDIS/OGI Funding MOA
I am very pleased to report that I am currently up to my eyeballs in resumes for both the GIS Specialist I and GIS Specialist II positions. At first review, we have a fantastic pool of candidates for both roles and I am excited to take a closer look at our options. I want to thank everyone who helped get the work out. While I hope to fill both positions as quickly as possible, my intention is to focus on the Specialist II position first because I really, really, really want organizing our LiDAR data to be someone else’s problem.
As a testament to how real the situation is getting, I can confirm that my order for new laptops and monitors was placed on Monday.

NSGIC 2025
I was equally pleased to attend the 2025 NSGIC Annual Meeting alongside Katilin Belk and David Nykodym. It is truly remarkable how many new ideas I’m still chewing on in the weeks since we returned from the conference. Not that there was ever any doubt, but Katilin gave a really wonderful presentation towards the end of the conference that was well received by the audience.

PS: I walked into a BBQ restaurant just as the Vandy football team was walking out. So that was pretty cool.

State Training
MSDIS will host its first state GIS training exercise on 10 November 2025. This will be a trail run of what I hope will turn into a very successful permanent addition to MSDIS’ list of responsibilities. The workshop will focus on very basic, beginner-friendly GIS tasks and workflows. I’d like to thank Peyton Smith for her continued work on the exercises that will be featured during the event.

Other Training
Several non-state employees have already reached out to me about getting their own training events started. Once we have a good feel for the process, MSDIS is 100% open to the idea of expanding the audience. I anticipate that we will need to work very closely with the RPCs, statewide GIS organizations, and MGISAC in order to get the word out once we do offer more3 courses, but I look forward to that collaboration.

Reference Maps
Rachel Riley and Joshua Stender continue to refine drafts for our early reference mapping products. As you can well imagine, there is no easy way to develop a mapping standard for a state as diverse as Missouri, so this process has taken on a life of its own. I’m very impressed with their early efforts, though, and I believe we’re close to having a rough draft ready to share with a select number of intended recipients

MSDIS Downtime
No downtime was reported in September 2025.

Appendix I – New LiDAR Download Availability

Treasurer’s report- $36,762.51 balance. There will be some expenses for nsgic and the meeting today that will be coming up.

Membership report- 32m 0v 17q. A couple representatives changed. Modot and Northwest Missouri State University.

Committee Reports

Data dev- good traction for imagery and data acquisition program going. Will be flying Lidar for 22 countries. Ql1 data for Southern Missouri. Flight planning to go up in the middle to end of November.

Marketing- been focused on setting up this meeting. Looking for the next space to go to. If you have an event, workshop, or educational opportunity let us know.

Ng911- overview of the ng911 gis dashboard. This was funded by arpa funds. NG911 is able to receive texts and video unlike the old E911 equipment. The old system used land line location but since no one has land lines anymore the process and technology has to change, which is expensive.

Education- Had first successful educators summit at MOGISCON last April. The story map is updated with new happenings and projects. Lindenwoods GIS day is going to be November 20th.

Liaison report

Nsgic- post conference update. Super successful. Met as a state for an hour, then spent time with others asking about collecting statewide imagery, what agencies other states bring to the table, and what it would look like getting a program up and going.

Presentation-st Louis board of elections- St Louis County is the most populous county in the state they are in a position to use gis in a variety of ways. Their main responsibility is maintaining the voter precinct layer. They have more than a dozen different jurisdictional layers and an online map where users can look up their location and download their ballot directly. They are setup on a vote center model where voters can vote at any location and ballots are printed on the fly according to their registration information. It can become messy when apartments are built on jurisdiction lines and the people within have to be split accordingly. The election board is responsible for keeping it all straight. They also use GIS to track in real time where equipment is. This ensures their equipment is accounted for and not in place it doesn’t belong. Having so many processes tied together allows them to monitor many analytics regarding their voting. Meeting ADA and colorblind standards with the maps when there could be several candidates is definitely a challenge.

Adjourned 11:18am