I spoke with Dick Thompson yesterday regarding the legislation we
proposed (regarding the federal represenative), he will include it in
this year's submittal.

However, he also asked if we were going to submit a bond request this
year.  At this time we only have to submit an intent to file a request,
so he is going to do that.  It requires no detail. BUT we have a short
time table to put together details if we are going to make a request
this year.  If we don't make a request this year, it is TWO YEARS before
we can do so again.  The dates are:

October 3 - CIO has to provide preliminary draft language to the
governor's office

October 24 - final language due

That means that at our next meeting we need to approve the draft
language - including funding estimates and what we want to fund - to get
them to Dick by Oct 3.  And then we would need to approve any changes at
the October meeting.

I suggest we take a preliminary look at the survey results that Sewall
has prepared, and draft something up before the September meeting.

Is there a Board committee looking into this?  If not I can coordinate
the effort and get something together ASAP.  Please let me know if you
are interested in participating.  We can vet this via email before the
September meeting.

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Michael Smith
State GIS Manager
Maine Office of GIS