Lake Worth Water Utility and GIS Coordinator received Awards

PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Ben Kerr, Public Information Officer
Phone: 561.586.1631
Email: Bkerr@lakeworth.org

Lake Worth, Florida – The City of Lake Worth is pleased to announce that on May 3rd, 2018, the Lake Worth Water Utility’s “Optimizing Water Utilities with Mobile GIS”initiative along with GIS Coordinator Joe Head have received Florida Excellence in Technology awards for 2018. The Florida Excellence in Technology awards were established to recognize state and local government information technology (IT) projects and professionals demonstrating excellence and providing value to the State of Florida and its citizens.

The Lake Worth Water Utility’s “Optimizing Water Utilities with Mobile GIS” initiative aimed to provide reliable, dynamic and accurate Water Utility feature information in real-time to field crews. By transitioning from static paper maps to dynamic GIS data manipulated via mobile devices, daily operation efficiency and data integrity have been greatly improved. City of Lake Worth Water Utility staff, Judith Love, Julie Parham and their field crews worked alongside the GIS department to make this initiative possible.

City of Lake Worth GIS Coordinator, Joe Head, led the technical development of this project and was also recognized with an award for his efforts. His cross discipline approach between traditional GIS, database development and task optimization was central in the success of this initiative.

The City of Lake Worth continues to evaluate new technology and best practices to ensure a forward thinking and modern approach to public service.

Please contact Ben Kerr, the City of Lake Worth Public Information Officer, with any questions or comments.