11:30:19 From Kimberley Denney (Atlantic) : Kimberley Denney - Huntsville, Alabama (Rocket City USA) 11:30:48 From Karen Rogers - WY (she/her/hers) : Karen from WY, the Cowboy State 11:30:57 From mpeters : Matt Peters - Utah UGRC the bearded wonder 11:31:03 From Tom Carlson : Tom Carlson, USGS, Tacoma WA 11:31:19 From Karen Rogers - WY (she/her/hers) : Wonder is right! 11:31:58 From mpeters : Just a little…. 11:31:58 From Chris Chalmers - Atlantic : Chris Chalmers - St. Simons Island, GA 11:32:03 From Karen Rogers - WY (she/her/hers) : No experience with redistricting but have heard the horror stories 11:32:07 From Allison Shafer - U.S. Census Bureau : Allison Shafer - U.S. Census Bureau (Live in DC)- Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) 11:32:13 From Teal Wyckoff (WY) : Teal Wyckoff, University of Wyoming, Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, Laramie, WY 11:32:20 From Mary Fulton - Pennsylvania : Mary Fulton - Pennsylvania - redistricting first-timer 11:32:22 From Kim Jackson, FGIO : Kim Jackson, Florida GIO. Watching FL re-districting since 1990. 11:32:29 From Jim Steil - (MS) : Jim Steil - MS Our office is on 4th statewide reapportionment 11:32:29 From Molly Schar (NSGIC) : Molly Schar in magical New Orleans 11:32:33 From Eric Spangenberg : Eric Spangenberg, Lewis & Clark County, MT - county level redistricting; commissioners, precincts 11:33:48 From Frank Winters : Frank Winters - NY, Redistricting is done by others. 11:33:50 From Tim Johnson (NC) : Tim Johnson, North Carolina, the Tar Heel State (but I am not a Tar Heel fan :) ). 11:34:34 From Miriam Pomilio - DE Office of State Plannign : Miriam Pomilio, DE 11:44:02 From Andy Rowan (NJ) : In NJ we amended our constitution for this! 11:54:16 From Bridget Nolan : Reminder: please write your questions into the chat! We're keeping a close eye on it. Thanks! 11:55:12 From Jim Steil - (MS) : 1990 everything was custom written in AML (MS) - NOT ideal 11:55:37 From Karen Rogers - WY (she/her/hers) : WY is using Maptitude for redistricting. Anyone else? 11:56:32 From Jim Steil - (MS) : MS - Legislature choice is Maptitude 11:57:33 From Greg Bunce (UT) : UT is still deciding on what platform to use. we have a newly created independent redistricting commission. 11:58:14 From mpeters : Utah will use pencil and paper 11:59:13 From Leslie Jones (Alaska) : AK migrating from maptitude to ESRI software for ease of collaborating 11:59:17 From Greg Bunce (UT) : ha! hopefully, colored pencils 11:59:42 From Neil MacGaffey (MA) : GIS on a browser: enabling more transparency in redistricting process! 11:59:44 From mpeters : Any states using multiple vendors? 12:00:04 From mpeters : One for staff, one for public engagement etc 12:00:05 From Cy Smith : Oregon using Esri Redistricting package 12:07:48 From Jim Steil - (MS) : Anybody facing challenges since there is no longer a process for US Justice approval? (It's a Southern thing) 12:09:41 From Richard Leadbeater--Esri : @mpeters Most actually, very often Legislators will have their own consultant using a different solution. 12:11:53 From mpeters : Utah has an independent commission in addition to the legislative folks. AGRC is help the independent commission. I am hoping to have them both use the same software. 12:13:55 From Greg Bunce (UT) : kudos, esri on building this redistricting app! well done, and it seems very intuitive! when I worked for Maricopa County Elections we had to custom build many of these tools. 12:24:07 From mpeters : Do you need to use HUB for citizen engagement or does this tool handle that role? 12:25:12 From Hillary Palmer : Great presentation Aaron! 12:29:01 From Neil MacGaffey (MA) : really fine, timely, easy to follow presentation and this new app certainly was impressive in the demo. 12:30:03 From Matt Zimolzak - US Census Bureau : Me too! 12:32:29 From Jim Steil - (MS) : Very powerful and elegant solution for reapportionment access. Nice. 12:33:26 From Karen Rogers - WY (she/her/hers) : That's very slick 12:33:56 From Greg Bunce (UT) : indeed 12:35:21 From Miriam Pomilio - DE Office of State Plannign : OMG mind blown 12:36:43 From Jim Steil - (MS) : Who else has major concerns over the affect of using differential privacy at the precinct level? (GI/GO) 12:37:03 From Greg Bunce (UT) : is the district sketch licensed separately from the redistricting tool? 12:48:00 From Karen Rogers - WY (she/her/hers) : Do you have plans to roll that out as a solution? 12:48:17 From Jim Herries, Esri : If you are interested in receiving the source code for that app, let Richard know. 12:48:54 From Jamie Chesser (she/her/hers) : Thank you, Jim! 12:49:24 From Jim Steil - (MS) : Official not equal to correct... 12:53:55 From Cy Smith : What does UT do with the public-provided plans? 12:55:04 From Cy Smith : Richard is answering part of my question, but I'm wondering if those plans are used in some way to develop the official plan? 12:55:19 From Matt Utah : I will need to get back with you Cy, I am speaking with the legislative folks today 12:58:43 From Fashoway, Erin : Hoorah, Montana! 13:03:56 From Richard Leadbeater--Esri : @Cy, the citizen plans were catalogued by Staff and grouped by ideas, or focus. these notes made it to the committee for consideration. UT do 13:08:10 From Richard Leadbeater--Esri : @cy Utah does a statewide schoolboard plan. a citizen submitted the plan that was review and accepted for that layer. 13:09:45 From Cy Smith : Very good, thanks Richard. I was looking for ideas to provide to our legislative folks working on redistricting. Good info. 13:17:15 From Jamie Chesser (she/her/hers) : Please feel free to raise your hand if you have a question. Or you can type in the chat. Thank you very much! 13:23:09 From Richard Leadbeater--Esri : I've always said; "Map Money" 13:24:35 From Richard Leadbeater--Esri : their name, their photo, and their district. 13:27:21 From Neil MacGaffey (MA) : Cy, you're "not a chain of command guy"? Really? I'm shocked, just shocked! 13:29:10 From Fashoway, Erin : A map, is one of the best marketing materials we have as GIS folks. When I visit local governments it makes me smile to see the 15 year old maps they have on their walls that we created back in the day!