The Village of Glenview has currently been tasked to come up with ways to more effectively and efficiently answer and fix drainage issues, and has requested assistance from the GIS department. One solution would be to set up a storm water fund, supplying that fund by applying a utility tax, and using it to perform maintenance on drainage ditches (which is currently not maintained by the Village.) GIS created data and maps that display major and minor public ditches and major and minor private ditches, and these maps will potentially be used to present to the Board of Trustees to assist with the approval of setting this storm water fund up.

Currently the Village of Glenview does not maintain existing drainage ditches or culverts. This long-standing policy may merit review by the Board of Trustees as many neighborhoods depend heavily on ditch flow as their primary means of storm water drainage. Development of a Village-wide inventory of the existing right-of-way, and easemented drainage ditches is proposed for completion within 2010. Currently the Village is using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to create this inventory.

Each year Public Works selects sections on roadways throughout the Village for its Minor Area Resurfacing Strategy or M.A.R.S project, and they use GIS to plot these areas based off an address, multiple addresses, and\or intersections. Once these areas have been determined then small resurfacing patches are applied, which can extend the life of the full roadway for up to 5 years.

A recent development in the Glenview, IL Geographic Information System (GIS) has been the creation of the firework fallout locations for the Fire Department. The information created includes the site locations and the fallout buffers for each location. Fallouts are determined by the size of the shell, and a one inch shell has a radius or fallout of 70 feet.

A recent development in the Glenview, IL Geographic Information System (GIS) has been the creation of the landscape site locations. Information created includes the site description and which group the site is associated with. One other statistic that can quickly be calculated using GIS, is the total area for each site.

The Village of Glenview Inspectional Services executes numerous inspections on a daily basis including all businesses and multi-story non-residential buildings for Fire inspections. Before the advent of Geography Information Systems and MUNIS, Fire inspectors used CityView software (address database) for their daily inspections.

The majority of Municipal Departments use hard copy maps for various daily tasks. Maps are still used considerably to show analysis results, however new advances in technology have provided other ways to dispense and even interact with data.

Employees for the Village of Glenview often request very simple, but effective ways for determining attributes for property owners and one of these attributes is\are, zip codes. With assistance from Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Employees are now able to quickly look at the zip code map and find out a residence(s) zip code in a matter of seconds.

Police, Fire, and EMS dispatch plays a very important and crucial role for any State, County, City, or Village; and any Dispatcher, Police officer, Firemen, or EMT will tell you that timing and accurate information is everything. The Village of Glenview utilizes Geography Information Systems (GIS) by integrating GIS data into their New World Systems (software mapping applications) for accurate computer aided dispatch. GIS and NWS give dispatchers the ability to supply all Police, Fire, and EMS with the most up to date address locations.

The Village of Glenview is currently applying for a roadway improvement Grant Application for Chestnut Ave (from Lehigh Ave to Waukegan Rd.) In this process, a key component for consideration is the economic impact to the neighboring community of a roadway project, both short term (construction jobs) and long term (improved ability of customers to access stores, productivity increases due to shorter travel times, and possibility for future area redevelopment. ) It is the Village’s responsibility to demonstrate how a project meets this criteria.

The Glenview Police Department relies on incident mapping for home and auto theft to assist with identifying hotspots, in hopes of deterring future criminal activity. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can help provide a dynamic and a static view for incidents\hotspots throughout the community. One of the main components of making this system work is providing and maintaining all GIS data for the Dispatch\mapping software and hardcopy maps that display incident location, date, time, and high areas of criminal activity.

The Village of Glenview contains several sidewalks that require annually maintenance and also too, plowing during the Winter months. Public Works Supervisor Joe Rizzo requested a map that would display 5 zones of evenly distributed sidewalks (square foot) for each zones. Utilizing the power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) the sidewalks were analyzed and evenly distributed into 5 zones. The GIS Department designed a map displaying the location for each sidewalk, 5 zones, which zone each sidewalk was in, and a table showing each zone’s square footage of sidewalk. A digital copy of this map is located on the village’s shared network drive.

Village staffs in the water utility department, including managers, operators and executive directors, need an updated understanding of how utility systems are performing, where employees should be focusing their efforts and how village residents are affected. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can help to provide a dynamic view of operations and activities throughout your community. One of the main components of making this system work is consistently updating your data so that it is current. While GIS staff knows how to enter and manage GIS systems they often don’t have the expertise or the opportunity to make data changes out in the field.

Village staffs in the water utility department, including managers, operators and executive directors, need an updated understanding of how utility systems are performing, where employees should be focusing their efforts and how village residents are affected. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can help to provide a dynamic view of operations and activities throughout your community. One of the main components of making this system work is consistently updating your data so that it is current. While GIS staff knows how to enter and manage GIS systems they often don’t have the expertise or the opportunity to make data changes out in the field.

The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to understand spatial patterns of crime and criminal behavior has become more prevalent in recent years. The recent introduction of GIS and reporting software has made this type of analysis increasingly easier. Every several months the Police Department for the Village of Glenview, IL receives updated maps showing the location and time of residential and automotive burglaries along with summary statistics. Looking at the addresses spatially allows for the detectives to put together possible patterns in criminal behavior.

The Village of Glenview, IL has recently installed a kiosk in the Development Department to answer questions by contractors, residents and realtors. The kiosk gives individuals the ability to quickly find out information about Village property from a single source. Questions such as what school district is a property in? What residential services are available? What day is garbage pickup? What is the approximate age square footage of my home? What is the Village zoning classification? All these questions can be answered using the kiosk.

Home rule is the ability of a Municipal government to facilitate greater local control over the government decision making process. Home rule charters, or local constitutions that establish such status, are voted on by the residents. This article looks at the case to increase Glenview's Home Rule Sales Tax (HRST) from 0.5% to 0.75%.