Type:

Contracting

Metropolitan Aerial Photography

Agency, Counties or Groups involved in the process:

City of Fargo, City of Moorhead, City of West Fargo, City of Dilworth, Cass County North Dakota, Clay County Minnesota.

Why did you collaborate on this effort?

Aquire high resolution aerial photography for the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area.

Keys to success / challenges / lessons learned / advice to others:

Cooperative buying power to reduce expense to individual jurisdictions.

What have been the outcomes to-date?

Designate a lead agency and a specific contact for the project that has powers to speak and act on everyones behalf.

Resources:

Successfully completed

For more information,
please contact:

Mark Sloan, GIS Coordinator

mark.sloan@co.clay.mn.us   

Type:

Contracting

Technical Support

Agency, Counties or Groups involved in the process:

School district, city, and hospital.

Why did you collaborate on this effort?

The county could not afford its own full time technical support personnel. Contracts with other entities for a portion of the time would make such a position feasible.

Keys to success / challenges / lessons learned / advice to others:

Necessity.

What have been the outcomes to-date?

Need an anchor "tennant". For us it was the school. Need to have a contract that caps your costs.

Resources:

We have shared a Technical Support Specialist with these entities for over two years with the county paying for less than 40% of the employee's cost. The balance has been covered by our partnering entitites. It has been so successful that we recently hired a full time Web Development Specialist who we are sharing with the same entities on a similar contractual basis. We are building some depth to the department that will also help cover vacation/sick time in the future.

For more information,
please contact:

John Chattin, Administrator

jchattin@co.swift.mn.us