I agree Mark. I think there have certainly been some improvements but there’s much more to be done. What it seems to me is that there is a lack of trust from the utilities to the local and regional governments.
I know there’s been a strong effort on the part of the electricity providers (speaking as UI community here) to develop relationships with our assigned account executives, even so far as attending our EPPI exercise
over the summer. Our UI account executive has coordinated with our Emergency Management/Hazard Mitigation people on developing local priorities for post-disaster Make Safe activities. All good steps in the right direction. Having access to their pole data
has been a big help in accident reconstruction maps and for maintaining our fiber optic network.
The Regional Water Authority in our area made an available some wonderful aerial imagery at an incredible cost savings for our COG (South Central Regional Council). That kind of effort saves everyone time and
money! I’d like to see more efforts like that. We need opportunities to meet at the same table and simple explore how we can develop trust and explore mutually beneficial business practices and in all honestly, it seems the COGs are the perfect vehicle to
manage that kind of relationship.
Meg McGaffin
GIS Analyst
City of Milford CT
70 West River St
Milford, CT 06460
203-783-3393
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Came across this posting over the weekend. Would be great to see something similar initiated here in CT.
New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) Starts to Change the Game
http://espatiallynewyork.com/2014/10/10/new-york-state-electric-and-gas-nyseg-starts-to-change-the-game/
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