Saying the city’s agreement with Hall County for Geographic Information System (GIS) and Property Assessment Services now provides inadequate services, the Flowery Branch City Council Thursday will consider terminating the agreement.
The decision for the city’s exit from the pact is explained this way in the agenda for the meeting:
“Flowery Branch has enjoyed the use of Hall County’s GIS services for many years. The time has come where Flowery Branch has a need for more than Hall County’s GIS services offer. With the development of its own GIS, Flowery Branch staff will be able to redline corrections out in the field (water lines, sewer lines, stormwater, or roads) and will have real time information readily available to them in the field.”
Flowery Branch’s GIS software will have features to notify water customers affected should there be a water line that is down and notify the same customers of when the water line is back open.
“Although, there will be savings of approximately $25,000 that they city is no longer paying to Hall
County, the funding will go into further building of Flowery Branch’s GIS system so there is no
savings or excess funding needed for the item,” the document says.
Known as an Intergovernmental Agreement for Geographic Information System (GIS) Services and Property Addressing Services, it was originally signed in 2006 and has been renewed several times since then, most recently in 2020.
