TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
John Jalili, Interim City Manager
FROM:
Bruce Moe, Finance Director
Leilani Flores Emnace, Information Systems Manager
Bonnie Shrewsbury, GIS Analyst
SUBJECT:Title
Agreement with Esri for a Three-Year Enterprise Wide Geographic Information Systems Software Licensing in the Annual Amount of $35,000 (Finance Director Moe).
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
a) Waive formal bidding in accordance with Municipal Code Section 2.36.140; and
b) Authorize the City Manager to execute an agreement with Esri for a three-year enterprise wide Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software licensing in the annual amount of $35,000.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The total cost of the enterprise wide license agreement is $35,000 annually. Sufficient funds are available in the FY 2013-2014 budget, and will be provided for in future budgets.
BACKGROUND:
Esri is the world's leading Geographic Information System (GIS) software platform and the standard GIS solution used in Southern California. Nearly all City, County and other agencies utilize Esri software. The City of Manhattan Beach being on the same GIS platform as neighboring agencies is critical in sharing data, resources, and expertise. This is especially true in GIS support for Disaster Planning and Emergency Response.
GIS integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS provides a graphical view, to understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. GIS assists in answering questions and solving problems by looking at data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.
DISCUSSION:
One of the projec...
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