2. Jason Mirtl Monroe County Surveyor’s Office Health Services Building 119 West 7 th Street Bloomington, IN 47404 Room 201 Phone: 812.349.2977 Email: jmirtl@co.monroe.in.us

3. C.I.R.C.U.I.T County Information & Records Coordination Unification & Integration Team Established around 1994- 1995. Through the Monroe County Planning, Auditor’s, Recorder’s, and Assessor’s departments. In cooperation with the City of Bloomington & Indiana University. Working together utilizing GIS through current & future projects. Overall goal is to maintain the accuracy and completeness of data sets through a functional Geographic Information System. Synchronization of departments is key. Thirty member committee currently meets once a month.

4. Plat Maps Stored in the Recorder’s Office at the Monroe County Courthouse. Five-and-one-half cabinets with four hundred envelopes each. On average, approximately four scanned plats per envelope. Making for approximately 8800 total scanned plat maps. Still five surveyor plat books that need to be scanned and more coming in weekly. In near future will be able to scan and link plats into GIS as they come in, making the data set as current as possible. 1560 linkable subdivisions, technology and business parks and commercial properties in GIS layer.

5. Plat Planning Department Department HighwayDepartment Auditor’sOffice Recorder’sOffice Assessor’sOffice Surveyor’sOffice

6. Access and Benefits While being a very efficient way to look up public plat records many users will find it very useful. Access can easily be achieved via computer and internet, through Monroe County GIS website. Users such as taxpayers who are extremely busy working and raising families could find information easier digitally opposed to non-digitally. Monroe County Government and City of Bloomington departments, major area utilities like gas and electric, could also benefit. Currently no access through GIS website; however possible access achieved by end of February.

7. Challenges Making a new naming convention for original scanned plats that was simple and easy to implement in order to make the link into GIS. The finished number of hyperlink columns in subdivision table. Currently eight hyperlink columns. Creating a solution if hyperlink columns become too cumbersome to navigate. Discrepancies between plat name and subdivision table row name. Locating plat location in GIS if plat name does not exist in subdivision table. Some data sets may not be current, road layer, parcel layer, subdivision layer for example. Making location of plats at times a challenge.

8. Sam Allison Monroe County Recorder Monroe County Recorder’s Office Monroe County Courthouse 100 West 5 th Street P.O. Box 1634 Bloomington, IN 47402 Room 122 Phone: 812.349.2536 Email: sallison@co.monroe.in.us