1. <County Cuts Costs and Improves Response> Presented By: < Shaimaa M. A. El-Tahtawy> By: By: Web Address: Topic Number: Topic Number: Date: Date:

2. County Cuts Costs and Improves Response In California county, most health and safety and environmental change violations occur in sparsely populated unincorporated portions of this rural county This area characterized by unimproved roads that slow travel. Also performance measures safety violations and environmental damage investigations.

3. County Cuts Costs and Improves Response Investigations reveal that those requirements can be made only if the owner of the property can easily identify a street address which is a problem in many other parts of the county.

4. Tracking Down Owners Before the new GIS/GPS system was employed, identifying the location of the nearest property adjacent to another was made using an assessor’s parcel map. If property owners didn’t respond, investigations should halt till each property co-ordinates would be identified to make it easy to identify the property.

5. Saving Time and Date With GIS/GPS method, code officer used GPS to identify the parcel and GIS to look up the ownership information. This process eliminated not only the cost of locating a parcel but also staff time lost in finding the parcel ownership.

6. Saving Time and Date By this way owners of Neighboring properties no longer need to be contacted.