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JEFF
MILLER: Stretching the dollars in Ashe County by
Su Clauson-Wicker
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Jeff
Miller, County Manager Ashe County, North
Carolina |
Jeff Miller, county
manager of Ashe County, N.C., knew he had to look for two qualities
in a GIS for his rural county: it could be
operated by someone of medium skill level, and it
had to be economical enough for a shoestring
budget.
"We’re a small
jurisdiction; our compensation schedule is 80
percent of the state level," he says.
"Our employees could go 50 miles and receive
a substantially higher salary. If a high skill
level were required, I could see that we would
constantly be in retraining mode." When
Miller looked at the systems being used in other
counties, he found them exorbitantly pricey and
often rather complicated. Then, when Ashe
embarked on a property re-evaluation, he learned
of Anderson & Associates through an
appraising firm.
"I thought about running
the system on a pc platform rather than a
mainframe," Miller says. "Whenever I
asked Ken Anderson about doing something
unconventional, he’d say, ‘Let’s
look into that.’ It turned out to be a
fruitful partnership. A&A has the capacity to
do pioneering research for this type of GIS
system."
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