Okay again thanks so much everybody for coming today and we're going to kick things off with a welcome from our great city manager who just signed a new three-year contract. Yay John Jennings. Gina thank you that's actually news to the city councilors who are actually here that I've signed the contract I guess we don't need you to approve this on Monday so we're good. Oh it's in the paper so we believe everything it's always in the paper so first of all I want to welcome all of you this is actually the there are some things that I get to do every year that are my favorites one is the employee of the month I love coming to your departments and surprising someone who has been nominated by their peers to be the employee of the month and then today I as I've repeatedly said the greatest honor I have in my job is to work with all of you the the reason I decided to sign up again for another three years was because of the fact that I get to work with about 1400 of the most professional and dedicated people that have ever walked the face of the earth and I so greatly appreciate all that you do every single day and I think we still have a lot lot more to do and that's the other reason I decided that I wanted to continue in this role that there is a lot of work that we've been able to do over the last two and a half years a lot of amazing accomplishments that we've had as city staff I think the city council has done a lot of amazing work over there over the last two and a half years on the policy side but as us as all of us as city staff operationally I think we have done really an amazing job now I'm the one that gets the headlines good and bad but frankly I'm also the one that gets credit for all the work that all the great work that all of you do so I want to make sure you know that I know that that if it wasn't for you and what you do every single day we would never be able to run the city run it as effectively as we do and frankly I think have one of the the greatest cities in the entire United States so I want to just thank all of you for everything you do so thank you I also wanted to just introduce I think we only have one city counselor here I wanted to introduce counselor David Brenerman counselor Brenerman and that is there are other counselors I know that I've spoken with that had wanted to be here but and maybe they'll be coming in but counselor Brenerman has been here every year that I've been here count the counselor is unfortunately leaving us he is stepping down from the council actually Monday is his last official meeting and I just wanted to take this moment because you know sometimes we don't always get these opportunities to thank people for their contributions and so counselor Brenerman on behalf of everyone in this room and all of the other city staff we thank you for your support for everything that you've done this you as I said on the radio this morning counselor Brenerman in three years has left an amazing legacy all of this waterfront that you see out these windows gonna radically change because of his leadership you know he was the one of the primary drivers in bringing Wex to our waterfront and many other wonderful things we've got some plans that some of you will see all of you will see on November 28th we'll be unveiling some new visuals of what we think the Portland Ocean terminal building could look like in the future to his committee and so counselor Brenerman thank you for everything we wish you the best we hope we see you often except for unless you want to complain about something and also just say that one of the great things about counselor Brenerman he does not use c-click fix so so thank you I also want to just take a moment to also thank the amazing and I do I want to stress the word amazing Barron Center staff for providing this amazing fantastic lunch Anna banana is right there Anna thank you Milton everybody thank you I don't know what happened to me oh there's Mary Mary thank you for yeah exactly Mary is the one of the only people that doesn't have act that has unfettered access to my office because she just walks in so you know she just there doesn't seem to be many what yes they do because we all know without them where would you be right yeah thank you all Barron Center for for everything that you do not only today but everything you always do so thank you so now what I get to do is I get to actually recognize all of the the committee the event committee that put this wonderful day to day together takes an enormous amount of work to structure this to bring all of you together for all of the the programs all the certificates and so forth so I was hoping that all of you could stand up and we could recognize you in unison the event planning committee Gina Tapp the HR department and Kathy Vosmos the HR department Carleen Kessler the HR department Mary McCarthy the Barron Center you're getting too much recognition Mary Clarkson Woodward Woodward police department I saw Clarkson oh you keep moving on me so you were over there Jessica Grondon Kathy Williams from Public Works Desiree Kelly and Jen Hale from Parks Recreation and Facilities can we please give all of them a big round of applause so first of all we're gonna read the five-year recognition and then ask you to stand when your name is called and then we'll we'll recognize you all together so first for five years of service to the city Rachel Allen from Parks Recreation and Facilities could you please stand when your name is called Nathan Asgorean for the fire department Jeremiah Bartlett Public Works Robin Beeler Nichols from the Baron Center Steven Bishop from the fire department Lucas Brundage from the fire department Rosa Canis from the Baron Center Lindsay Chase from Parks Recreation and Facilities Sarah Klukey from the police department Keanna Cooper from the Baron Center Lauren Coat Cody from Parks Recreation and Facilities Stacey Dan from Parks Recreation Facilities Olga Davidova Davey Dova sorry from the Baron Center sorry Olga if you're here yeah someone's laughing at me so good for you I did get Andy Jigaleski right last year so you have to give me some credit so Dan Daniel Day Public Works Helen Donaldson planning Kristen Dow Public Health Jake Ebenhoe thought the fire department Royal Edgerly the third the fire department Lisa Edmond from the Baron Center Mark Faulkner from the fire department Sarah Florent from the police department Ron Ronald Jero Jr. from the fire department Lidda Lidda Green from fire Jordan Hancock from fire Dwayne Hansen from permitting and inspections Abder Rashid Hassan from the Baron Center Sean Hurley from the police department Amanda Hutchins from Public Health Nicholas Jewett from the fire department Brenda Jones from the Baron Center Carlton Jones from the fire department Wayne Kane from the Baron Center Dan Casdoy from fire Spencer Keith from social services Aaron Keller from the Jet Port Lewis Lafrenier sorry my man Parks Recreation and Facilities I know you as Lou Anthony Lane Lane Lain Lloyd from the Baron Center Jeff Levine from planning Gailin Light from fire Matthew Morrison from police CJ Mastropoulos from Muster Fias sorry Parks Recreation Facilities Kevin Murphy from police Paula Nason from the Baron Center Sherlyn Nomet from the Baron Center Glenn Nielsen from Public Works Stephanie Nowicki from the fire department Dave Onos from Parks Recreation and Facilities Davey Perina from finance Eric Peterson from parking Linda Plored from social services Matthew Ryder from the police department Douglas Rat-Rutuma from the social services Taylor Schneck from social services James Jamison Seaman Sr. from Public Works Suna Shaw from the police department Nasser Shear from IT Haley Sinett from the Baron Center Josh Tripp from the fire department Mark Tweedy from the fire department Kevin Westcott from the fire department and Rob Wiener from planning so these are our for recognizing for five years of service to the city please give them a big round of applause now we're going to turn our attention to the ten-year employees for their years of service amazing actually I I hope to get to six years so needless to say those of you who were here for ten years and more I take my hat off to all of you so first up is Deborah Adams from Public Health again if you wouldn't mind standing and stay standing so we can recognize you my old friend Tony Alves from Parks Recreation and Facilities Colin Ayer from the fire department Amanda Blanchard from the Baron Center Aaron Bridges from the fire department Julie Burns from the Baron Center Gang Chen from the Baron Center James Clookey from Parks Recreation and Facilities Brian Cole from the police department Josh Corbin from the fire department Marianne Curry from the Baron Center Phil De Piro from planning Ralph Dobson from Public Works Sean Donahue from fire Carla Donnelly from the Baron Center Jeffrey Druin from the police department John Emerson from Public Works Jean found Falconieri from the fire department I'm working on this stuff I swear to you Dylan Foster from the Baron Center Philip Jeanet from Park was it Janak gig Gignac okay fantastic Parks Recreation yeah stand up three times man go ahead Matthew Hawks fire fire Robert Hawkins police Deborah Hore from Social Services Cirilla Hodgkis from the Baron Center Wendell Howard from the fire fire department Michael Kimball from fire Michael Lamb from Parks Recreation Facilities Bernard Bernice Landry from the Baron Center Megan Latelier from the fire department Dustin Mazzur from Public Works Robert Miller from police Douglas more mourn from permit permitting and inspections Mike Murray from the executive department Dave Dave Pratt from fire Scott rag rag from Public Works Kevin Reddy from parking Anthony Russo from fire Crystal Seneca from the Baron Center Maxine Saroise from the Baron Center Phil Skillings from Park Recreation Facilities Caroline St. Pierre from fire Carl Stevenson from Parks Recreation Facilities Daniels Benson from the fire department Daniel Thompson from the fire department Jacob Titcom from the police department Ryan Walsh from fire and that is it so congratulations for our 10 year we're moving on to 15 years of service again you know my hats off to all of you when we get to 40 years I just kind of get down on both knees and just genuflect because it's just an amazing thing that you've spent all this time with the city so 15 years of service Camille Alden Alden from the Public Works Department Ethan Anderson from Parks Recreation and Facilities Joseph Bliss from the police department Justin Bragden from the fire department Doris Callaway from the police department David Carter from the fire department Raymond Kerry the third from the Baron Center yeah Ray remember yeah Ray yeah yeah you ever remember yeah Ray was telling me we got to get rid of the city hospital sign that's on this outside of the Baron Center because he's afraid that there's somebody's gonna pull off the highway that's in in you know pregnant and is about to have a baby and he's gonna have to deliver the child so that's so he's asked me to remove the sign off the Baron Center so we'll try to do that for you Ray yeah absolutely a light Eli Chase from the police department Dwayne Cody from Public Works Shelley the out the out doubt this is why I should drink before this finance Paul Decker from fire Lonita Dobson or Lanny Dobson as we all know her from IT Carolyn door from the city clerk's office Joe Galooly Jr. from Public Works Kelly Gorham from the police department Peter Hodgkin from the Public Works Melissa Huntley from Public Health Kristen Christine Hewitt from the Baron Center Casey Johnson from fire Christopher Cole from Parks, Recreation and Facilities Phil LaRue from the fire department Christopher Lehman from Public Works Todd Libby from the fire department Frank Mackie from Public Works Eric McCusker from the police department Fred McKieman Jr. from the Baron Center Dan Michaud from the social services Chris Orff from fire Michael Scherb from fire David Shaw from Public Works Julie Sullivan from the executive department Ryan Thompson from fire Chris Tillison from fire Kathleen Webb from Parks, Recreation and Facilities Keith Willett from fire Camilla Yanez from Baron Center David York from the Baron Center and finally David Young from the fire department let's give them a big round of applause we're going to move on to the 20 year recognition for all of you who have worked for the city for at least 20 years of service so again I take my hat off to all of you for for putting up with certain individuals who live in our community and I won't name who they are because you know who they are but for the last 20 years so Todd Beaumiere from the social services office John Belanger from the fire department Joe Bernard from Parks, Recreation and Facilities David Coat Cody from the police department Bruce Sear from fire Ronald Durth from fire Shayna de Matteo see I got it the second time Baron Center Peter Dubail Dubail from Public Works Tien Young from the police department Tim Ferris from the police department Robert Fogg from Public Works Marie Francis from parking John Joyce from fire fire Lynn Clue Jordan from fire Dennis Labonte from the jet port Peter McFarland come on Peter stand up Parks, Recreation and Facilities Robert McPart McPartland from fire don't block me from everybody's I'm just I'm just kidding now now you're blocking me over there so stand over here yeah yeah just exactly I'm sorry Philly Monan I'm sorry Philly from the IT office Joe Montefusco from the assessor's office Troy Moon from the executive office Ben Noyes Jr. from police Shauna Ohm from police Mary Soscheck from the police department some guy named Mike Soscheck from the police department Robert slaving a slaving from the fire department Dan Small from the fire department Randy Stewart from the fire department Ben Wallace Jr. from the fire department and Tim Welch from the jet port please give them a round of applause we're going to go and go forward with our 25-year recognition actually many of these individuals actually all of these individuals are really an incredible asset to the city and I I know one in particular or so and she does a phenomenal job for me and and for the entire executive office but we're going to start with Vicki Allen from Parks Recreation and Facilities yeah let's give the 25 years a clap so it's something for you five years to look forward to that when you get to 25 years we actually clap for you and you know oh I'm sorry I totally messed this up as usual the 25 years I need to come up and stand with me you can bring your plants yes we'll put that right in front Sonia Bean from the executive department this is the literally the last thing that Sonia wants to do is stand near me so Paul Bradbury from the jet port Dwayne Curry from the public works department David Day from public works Gary Dobson from public works Ed Doddy from the fire department Ed come on up Catherine Gallagher from the Barron Center Walter Gray public works Maureen Jordan Barron Center Lisa Labonte from the Barron Center Eric LeMay from the IT department Andrew Lopez from parking Judy O'Hara from the Barron Center Frank Robino from the public works department and finally Paul Willie from the parking division let's give them a huge round of applause please we're up we're gonna move forward with the 30 year 30 years of service again an amazing group of people as I read down the list so we're gonna start with Amy Adams from the Barron Center is Amy here Amy Adams Amy's not here so she kind of blew us off today is that what we're saying okay I'll remember Amy then Dan Boudlier from the IT sorry Dan you also have to stand up here Margretta Cole from the Barron Center oh she's providing security and care is that does that are a superior care I was gonna say who's providing the sorry that she couldn't make it but please extend our best wishes to both Amy and Margretta Glen Garland from the fire department Tim Tim Harmon from the fire department Bruce Hebert from public works I guess when you hit 25 years or 30 years you don't have to show up so sorry Dan it's just us Michael Jones from the police department thank you thanks for showing up I really appreciate that Leon McKenzie Parks Recreation Facilities Joseph Murphy from the fire department I knew Joe was gonna show up that guy wouldn't miss a free meal so thanks Joe for coming coming today appreciate that now his entire station would not let Joe sit with them so I don't know what that is all about but Walter Phillips from Parks Recreation Facilities Michelle Reynolds from IT Cynthia Rummery Taylor from the police department Arthur Sewell from the Jetport or Artie as we know him Artie Artie's not here he doesn't like us either okay I keep these lists just everybody knows so you 20-25 years you know so anyway Gary Shane from Public Works one of the best guys we have with the city Mark Spiller Richard Sullivan from the fire department Kevin Thomas from Public Works Alfred Trefery the fourth from Public Works and Robbie Walker from the Barron Center please give all of them a big big round of applause please so we're now going to move to the part of the program to where we're going to recognize the 35-year employees and the 40-year employees well that's nice and during during this process we always ask the department head to actually come up and speak about these amazing individuals so I'd like to invite Dan Boodley or to come up please to recognize one of his staff members Bob Toliver stand up Bob this won't be too painful Bob Bob started work with the city of Portland in September of 1982 and who will put that in perspective Ronald Reagan was president while Disney World opened a brand new theme area called Epcot 1982 the Dow Jones average surged 43 points in November of 82 to close slightly over 1000 unbelievable also in the world of technology IBM introduced a new storage device called the double-sided by comparison an average iPhone today holds 20,000 of these so pretty impressive in terms of the evolution of technology there's one more item I'll speak to more toward the end but something very important happened that year too in the world of networks a protocol called TCP IP was invented in 1982 that will later be developed to be the thing that connects the whole internet and I'm going to speak to that just at the tail end Bob and I were talking to spotting about what was a very first project he had in technology and what he had was a project of converting a data file from an 80 column punch card to something like this pretty amazing it was actually the city savings bond file so at one point folks your data was on something like this a little scary now Bob started as that as an application programmer in the 1980s when we were migrating to a to a another level of mainframe what a lot of folks don't know and even IT I don't think Bailey remembers other than Bob and I we were borrowing the system in Gardner so Bob for months on end came to work work is eight to five at five o'clock drove to Gardner it worked until after midnight and he did that three and four nights a week from months that's a huge accomplishment and I don't know as we've ever recognized you for doing that but it was one of those things that helped us migrate to a new mainframe Bob's role in the nineteen late 1980s changed from developing software to being a network engineer now some of the things that most folks probably don't know is Bob worked with Time Warner for nearly five years the result of that work is a fiber optic network that connects all of our buildings all city buildings in all schools a tremendous accomplishment that's been in place now what Bob 20 22 years amazing accomplishment one of the things that Bob does too as a network engineer is he designs the wiring background backbone that makes our phone systems work so when you make a phone call make a Bob if it doesn't work think of Bob now what I just speak to just at the tail end was the internet it has come into commercial use in our lifetime and that's that's amazing to think about what happened my first thought when somebody mentioned the internet was was what and I thought it was a it was a fad it was similar to the hula hoop it would it would pass and boy was I wrong so what I wanted to also recognize Bob for was taking us from our dial-up connection when we all had our AOL accounts to high speed internet and if I could trust Time Warner or now Spectrum on the 29th of November our internet speed for everyone will increase by a factor of 10 so that's a very welcome news for a whiff Jessica who complains to me constantly about internet speed one thing I wanted to touch on at the tail end as I close out my remarks was really at the five-year folks one of the things that will happen over time is you realize that we're all a family in 35 years of working with Bob that's roughly 72,000 72,000 hours I've spent with that guy you cannot spend that time together without being some type of an extended family and it's I think that's true for everyone here in the departments especially as we approach the 20 25 35 40 years that's an amazing accomplishment so Bob thank you very much for everything that you've done Bob just on my for me thank you so much for your years of service and all you do for the city so thank you Bob now I'd like to introduce my very good friend Sally DeLuca Sally it feels you know we're best be what is a BFF is that right this could take a half hour she hugs everybody so anyway oh yes absolutely Sally remember you got two minutes Denise Macaronis could you come on up thank you Denise is proof that big things come in small packages and that's why I needed her to be here with me so she actually has high heels on today which and and when we sat down she said something quite interesting to me and I want her to tell you about what you look like what she looked like when she started here I was tall thin and no gray hair I couldn't say that back in the 1970s the city built two community center schools one at Riverton and one at Reiki and those folks that that did that were pretty brilliant actually I think because they built a school and a community center with large gymnasiums swimming pools they had health centers and dental centers and libraries so it was a really full service one-stop shop and that's actually where Denise started was in the health and human services department so she worked there for many years as a dental hygienist and helped kids have pearly white teeth and back then I was reminded that we didn't have fluoride in the water so Denise was part of making sure that the kids got daily fluoride tablets and then Denise moved over to parks rec and facilities parks and rec at the time in 1990 not many of us can say that we take a boat to get to work but Denise does have to take a boat because she is our Peaks Island community center coordinator and she has provided services out there on Peaks Island for 27 years so I often tease her that she's a true islander and she accepts that as a compliment which is good for both of us in 1997 Denise was instrumental in our department and she started one of the first friends groups and it was friends of Riverton Charlie Park and for those of you don't know Denise loves to talk about the history of the Riverton Charlie Park and I wrote it down so I didn't screw it up the park was in place in the late 1800s and this is over on the corner of Riverside Street and Forest Avenue that's where the Riverton Charlie Park was and a trolley moved folks from downtown Portland out there every weekend and I hope John's listening because this is his this is his kind of thing iconic stuff that was a 30 acre playground for adults and families there was a park casino that overlooked the river a dining room and a dance hall it was quite the place to be on the weekends there was an outdoor theater that seated over 2,500 people there was a boat house with canoes a trout pond and picnic grounds the invention and popularity of cars and World War one put an end to the fun because nobody needed to be on the trolley anymore but Denise makes sure that we all know the history of the park and keeps it alive for all of us and has led guided tours of the park history and helped raise money for restoration so that future generations will know the exciting place that it was many years ago and I'm so this is so hard my main accent I've been practicing this it's so hard to screw this up if you're stressed out person Denise has this unique ability to teach it's laughter yoga and I kept wanting to do it opposite laughter yoga so so if you ever want to know about laughter yoga she's the person to teach you and it will help you de-stress we couldn't be more proud to honor Denise here for her 35 years and to call her a public servant thank you Denise now I'd like to ask Chief Mike Soschuk to come to the podium to recognize one of his staff members as well all right thank you very much congratulations everybody thanks for all that you do on behalf of the city every day no matter you're here two days or 40 years we certainly appreciate that but I'm gonna ask Randy Richardson to step up to the podium help me out for 35 years of service Randy's joined here today by his wife Kathy and I would say the best mile in the room Maisie his granddaughter is here she'll be two in June she's a cutie over on the end over there if she got any of that tootsie roll pop on you we apologize she's having a good time and indefinitely tearing it up so I say acknowledge their presence says certainly because 35 years in service of the city I can certainly say 35 years in a police department is forever and that means there's a lot of long days and nights away from your family just like many of you as we responded to that last storm and other things there's a lot of folks that are away from their family so thank you to Kathy for sure and Maisie for the last 18 months or so for hanging in there with Granddad being away so a little bit about Randy again a cop math would say he started in 82 that's 35 years and he started with $5.30 an hour and we openly joke 35 years in he's up to 610 so he's doing pretty well he's doing pretty well we like that he knew what he wanted early on Randy's been on Peaks Island as a police officer since about 1984 so if you can imagine 33 years of service on Peaks Island and what you may or not may not know is that for years and years officers have been triple trained so their police fire and EMS we're currently partnered up with our brothers and sisters from the fire department out there but for years it was two police officers and a bunch of different things so it's the traditional community policing concept you literally know everybody's name and you know 15 generations of their families Randy knows everybody out there he does an incredible job on behalf of Peaks Island it's very fitting we can see his patrol area from here so it's a pretty nice day all the way around for Randy's service he's also been on the dive team for a long time with us and while he's done 35 years there's also common knowledge that Randy has never in his entire life turned down an overtime job never in his entire life has he turned down an overtime job so that's 35 years which really mean about 93 years in service if we counted up the actual work hours that he's done on behalf of the city but I just want to think that if if 33 years on the main streets of Peaks Island you would think maybe he's retired in place right I'll tell you an example from 2015 which is pretty telling and it was again working with the fire department captain Chris Thompson had written me a letter about Randy an 11 year old girl had fallen out of a tree and onto some rocks on Peaks Island you know the big-style boulders that they have out there around the beaches and she got really banged up and she had broken her back they thought maybe she punctured along and they were really concerned obviously about her welfare so Chris and Randy were crawling over the rocks to try to get her out from a couple of boulders out there while another officer is calling in boats to try to get her off the beach because they didn't think that they could put her on a backboard and carry her out of there ultimately they Randy assists to get her from where she was wrapped around a boulder put on a backboard Randy ends up wading into the the ocean and guiding a boat in to the beach area so that they could get this backboard on the front of that boat and get out of there so he's literally gun belt uniform the whole nine yards and he goes out to his waist and he's bringing a boat in holds the boat they end up putting the backboard on on that boat and that young lady went off to the hospital for treatment so that happened thirty three years into a thirty five year career so that tells you who Randy Richardson is on behalf of the City of Portland and we certainly thank him for his service thank you don styles don do you mind joining coming up so this is Cindy ebonitos thirty fifth year with the city and as you can tell she joined her when she was in high school literally she came to work for us and I think Mary was the first person who she began working working for so so you started out being trained well in Cindy's time she spent most of her career at the at the Baron Center and a variety of jobs and everyone that we talked to there had this had similar things to say about Cindy that she was hard-working she was a pleasure to work with she was a great team player and that she was always helpful to anyone who came into the office when she was working in the business office the residents come in and access their accounts and that a lot of times there they need some help in doing that and everyone unanimously said what a great help Cindy was to them she's moved over to social services for the last few years of her career with the city and they again had similar things to say there are a couple of things that stand out for me about Cindy and I probably should also say Cindy is now in addition to her position with social services is the president of of the Siba Union and so she has some members here Cindy continues to help people through her work with both both the city and with the Siba Union one of the things that I found especially compelling in the description of Cindy was her kindness and you know today that is such a unique and necessary and needed trait to have is to be kind and that was one of the the descriptions that staff used to describe Cindy was her kindness and her willingness to help in any time and and one staff actually said Cindy's the person who would give you the shirt off her back and you know that's a great tribute I found out that Cindy has a great sense of humor as well during Karen Percival who is the administrator at the Baron Center for over 30 years we were there and John and and one of the city councilors were gave a really great speech about Karen and several other people were giving giving wonderful tributes and all of a sudden the Siba Union and another union showed up and they handed her grievance and everyone's thinking oh my gosh what did Karen do now and and it was a grievance because they didn't want her to leave so they were give filed the staff and the unions filed a grievance to prevent her from retiring so I found that that was that was a great tribute to Karen as well and also showed Cindy's great sense of humor which has helped her in doing the hard work she's done all these years so I really appreciate your hard work Cindy and you're a true city city worker Cindy congratulations on everything and I actually wanted to ask Chris Branch if Chris could come up and join our takeover the podium and Chris please try to remember there is a two-minute no I'm kidding you take as long as you want thank you we have no place else to be thank you I appreciate that well they asked me to come up here and recognize some guy named Thomas Higgins this morning but I only know anybody by that name so I want Tommy Higgins to come on down here we get matching uniforms on today you notice Tommy was hired by the city of Portland as an equipment operator one in the parks department in December of 82 which was then the parks and public works department he became a foreman in public works in 96 and received employee of the month in November of 98 he then went on to become a public works supervisor in April of 99 and received the department's ace award in July of 2004 directors award in July of 2006 and was part of the team award in July of 2006 and again in September of 2016 as most of you know Tommy has been Portland's downtown district supervisor since October of 2003 he knows the downtown area very well and how to keep the area clean for our pedestrians and visitors that come to the downtown area he works closely with a Portland downtown district office staff which is not a simple task I will say in events planner Ted Musgraves and always knows what event is coming up next and how to plan for it from start to finish for many years he's worked with the city's popular old port festival that brings thousands of people to the old port overseeing the setup and clean up rain and shine he has been involved with the city's tree lighting ceremonies that again bring thousands to the downtown he's always responsive to customers in the downtown area and overseas the winter ops to take place keeping sidewalks open for pedestrians and businesses he always works very hard to keep Portland's downtown number one for all to enjoy in his dedication truly contributes to our success thank you for your 35 years of service with a Portland you've been greatly appreciated and I've been with the city now for about 18 months I'm a newbie but 18 months I've not heard one negative comment about Tommy since I've been here everything I hear is very positive his customer skills are excellent congratulations Tom congratulations Tommy we appreciate everything you and the entire crew crew does as well so thank you I wanted to ask the chief Jackson to come up the chief is going to talk about two of his employees and recognizing them for their 40 years of service so chief thank you John good afternoon everybody first I too want to just congratulate everybody and thank everybody for your years of service and and just to just to say that how proud I am to be the fire chief and to represent 228 of the most amazing men and women in our in this department and I think they're certainly second to nine in the world and I and I also just want to thank all of you for all you do to support our mission and what we do in the city there's we interact with so many departments at so many different levels and I really just can't thank you all enough for for the support you give us to be able to give service to our citizens and our visitors this point I'd like to bring up Frank Navarro and firefighter Tim Kane so I'm gonna start first and talk a little bit about Frank Navarro I don't suppose anybody here knows Frankie huh I do have to say that you're looking really sharp today if I don't only know if I don't only know that you could dress up like this and wonderful social clothes I'd have changed the uniform policy 20 years ago because I don't think I've ever seen you wear a uniform at the airport mostly because he's working out if anybody knows Frankie he's probably the posted child for physical fitness and I don't think I've known anybody that says good physical condition at any age then Frankie Navarro if there's one thing he's always doing is certainly working out and he has spent a lot a lot of his life teaching a lot of other people about exercise and the importance of that a little uncanny at times a little challenging at times I try to take the phone calls a little bit of stuff laughing at ease but so Frankie came in the fight apartment in November of 1977 and if anybody that's old enough to remember that disco was all the craze at the time and for those of you that are really young we can tell you what disco was all about it lasted 40 minutes but I'm sure you look good in your leadership Frank back then and when Frankie started his career in all the men and women that came in at that time the city of Portland was still experiencing a lot of fires we the city was still burning we really came out of the 1960s and all that went on in the country in the riots experienced here we had a lot of really dangerous events and things that happen in dangerous fires we have as you know a very old city we've been here a long time the city's got a huge history of major fires and both of these gentlemen were here and and really went through a lot in those days and Frankie was serving on two of the two most of the busy companies right on Congress Street during his early career later on in life I think he decided that one way he was definitely going to expand extend this lovely career here was he he had worked out to the airport I think he liked it and eventually stayed there he's been working at the airport for quite some time he's the senior firefighter out there as I was trying to put in this speech together though I ran out of adjectives I guess I'm gonna just leave it by saying Frankie Navarro is certainly one of the most unique people I've ever known well they will tell you I'm not gonna tell you all the years but he carries an AARP card he's get his Medicaid every week and he's collecting Social Security while he's still working but other than that he's doing great I was actually I will say in my time I've been also impressed that even as Frankie has worked here for 40 years and this is this is such a challenging career there's a reason why firefighters have a special retirement plan normally after 25 years you're so beat up physically and mentally you can't do this job and for these two gentlemen to even last 40 years and continue to serve here is amazing after knowing what they certainly went through in their early careers when we most firefighters were just starting to wonder about what wearing an air pack was all about and they have endured and Frankie certainly has endured and even not that long ago he was still taking over times and coming in town and riding on the trucks and and doing the job and Frankie on behalf of the citizens of Portland certainly all of us and myself as a chief we just thank you for the 40 years of service and congratulations Timmy Kane Timmy I don't know how you got 40 years and you're still younger looking than me keeping all your hair I'm getting really jealous here Timmy and Frankie came both came in November of 1977 and certainly again the time that they were serving was just amazing back then the city was just experiencing so many fires and they were extremely busy at that time also we had never heard the word hazmat most of the firefighters didn't do EMS we never heard everything like confined space blood-borne pathogens opioid overdoses none of that was going on and all of that now is all part of what we do and Timmy is still here today he's always one of the first ones to step up and and do what needs to be done he's always been one to take on whatever those new challenges are and he is certainly and I appreciate the fact that as a senior firefighter in the department he is always making sure to work with the younger firefighters are in here and passing on that knowledge and experience so that they they too will will be safe and that they will be able to endure in this job and Timmy's another one who has just amazing that to do 40 years here and continue to do this he's really been the firefighters firefighter he's still even now working on Lata 6 out of Bram Hall one of the busiest companies in the in the city and he's been there a lot of sick lot of six 35 years wow holy smokes down you do realize we had a bid system right you could leave yeah probably I will say unfortunately I don't know about poor Frank I don't think he's ever leaving but Timmy I think is getting close and they will be greatly missed but the one thing I've admired with Tim is certainly that he has shared all that knowledge experience he was a huge mentor in my time I've been here I would go to a fire or an emergency any day with Timmy Kane and I know that he's both these gentlemen highly respected and Timmy again on behalf of the citizens and certainly the city of Poland and myself we just can't thank you enough for your 40 years of service and congratulations I wanted to invite Chris Branch to come up back up and join me to speak about one of our the truly great work workers who staff members who work for the city for 40 years unfortunately he's not with us any longer but we are honored to have his family here with us so we're hoping that you could come up and be with us if that was if that's okay with all of you although Jim's not here today to receive the award Jim was a great employee for the city of Portland he was hired as a labor in July of 1977 after he served as a proud member of the US Marines he was promoted to assistant dispatcher in 1977 and promoted to supervisor in September of 1984 he received the department's ace award in July of 2004 and was part of team award in July of 2005 in September of 2016 he worked as a weekend night dispatcher during the winter months for several years and provided consistent and competent duties during this assignment he helped to establish the Arbor Street complex when the sewer division really moved into their own location he was incredibly dedicated conscientious and provided steadfast services to the water resourcing division who approached every task with a no-nonsense common-sense attitude he was known as the de facto historian of all things related to Portland wastewater he maintained a pristine attendance record over the 40 years he served with the city he quietly served as a benefactor for the lowering memorial site in the root cellar on Washington Avenue over the last few years as the de facto historian for the sewer in Portland he helped bring the water resources division into the 21st century as part of our asset management work with his great knowledge of the sewer and storm drain systems in the city of Portland Jim remained as I said a dedicated employee right up until he passed away on September 14th 2017 he will be sadly missed by all his co-workers friends and of course his family it would be almost impossible to replace the knowledge he had of our sewer system thank you Linda and family for allowing Jim to dedicate 40 years of his life to the city of Portland we've actually added a few awards this year awards that I think represents what all of us are trying to accomplish here in the city is certainly during my tenure and so we so I wanted to recognize what these awards are what they mean and certainly and then of course we have the Ganley award at the end but the department heads that all the directors of the departments of the various departments in the city helped me and Anita Anita was wondering where you what happened to you to determine the winners of these awards so please know that the the folks who won these awards that the management of the city feels very strongly of appreciate and feel strongly about the work that you do every single day so chief sauce check do you mind coming up Clarkson could you please join us I don't bite so this award is the customer service champion award and she was nominated by chief sauce check and I just wanted to read a little bit from his application of nominating Clarkson Clarkson is a public service professional who truly personifies the qualities that make this award so special she serves as a human resource subject matter expert for our department's 225 employees her passion for the position and her compassion for others make her a key component of the police department's management team and a constant source of support and guidance for the members of the PD family Clarkson is routine routinely available at all times of the day and night to answer health care questions for an injured officer or to respond directly to the station to assist in the aftermath of a traumatic incident like a blood exposure or an officer involved in a shooting Clarkson has been an integral part of our department's peer support team for the chief's 19 year career and without her commitment to the team and the city of Portland our officers would have the the Portland Police Department officers would have suffered needlessly in the face of various tragedies Clarkson has used her finely tuned organizational skills to streamline the hiring process of the police officers and dispatchers this new process new process made our department far more competitive with other area agencies and allow us allows us to add the flexibility to truly pick the best of the best Clarkson congratulations chief do you want to say anything so a few years ago we gave Clarkson the civilian of the year at the police department and we did it actually in this setting if I remember correctly and at that time Clarkson's heavily involved in that process so I had to lie to her for months actually we had to put a ghost person that we said was going to win it and did a whole thing so this was much easier to fool her this time around Clarkson is an incredible person I'm blessed at the police department I don't have one right arm I've got a hundred of them over there that keep me out of trouble but talk about internal customer service and the way she takes care of our family and external customer service Clarkson is the first person in many cases that outside entities and individuals have contact with they may be the only contact they have with the Portland Police Department she's a true professional she's also an incredible human being that we love very much so thank you very much for everything and she's gonna hate me for this so as we just mess mentioned customer service is a huge priority for us as a city and so Clarkson obviously was a great recipient but we also have another award this year called the innovator of the year award and anyone who has worked with me knows me or sat in a meeting with me knows that I'm a bit of a tech geek and I love I love technology I love moving us forward I love new ideas I've been going around meeting with various departments and fire stations and and divisions and so forth asking for your ideas on how we can move the city forward to innovate more effectively so Nancy Gallonero do you mind joining me up here please oh there's Nancy so the innovator of the year award the first annual innovator of the year award goes to Jessica Gooch Jessica Jessica was lured here under false pretenses so she did get a free lunch come on over Jessica so Jessica is the asset manager for water resources she has been responsible for the implementation of our asset management system within the water resources division as some of you know several years ago water resources was so bad on the operation side the US EPA made the city enter into a consent agreement do the efforts of Jessica our program is turned into turn has turned around so much that water resources was awarded this year's asset management award by the New England Water Environment Federation which is a huge award by the way the professional organization for the storm and wastewater industry our mapping and databases have gone from near zero to one of the best in the state in just a few years she has she has the crews using tablets to look up information and record data it is truly an amazing accomplishment Jessica has has been and continues to be a support for GIS here in public works and engineering as well as City Hall GIS she has presented papers for GIS organizations working groups main water environment and the New England Water Environment Associations as well as the main stormwater conference she has accomplished much in her two years as asset manager and has done so while being an excellent leader and coach to her young staff Nancy would you like to say anything I wasn't expecting to get to say anything but it's easy we're just so incredibly blessed at water resources to have the talent that we have we really started with a blank slate and just had to come in and get us all up to speed on everything getting our assets in the system and just getting us set up for the future and she's done so very independently and been able to go out and tell the country essentially across the country about what we're doing and that's why we're getting an award is because she's willing to get up and talk about what we're doing and so we're really proud of her and proud of her team so thank you just this person may hate me for life by doing this to her but Anita Lechance could you please join me he's right about that did you hear that he's right about that that she's gonna hate me for life and it has your name on it so we're also today establishing another award the municipal leadership award and Anita will be the first recipient of the municipal leadership award I've known Anita since I first came to Portland I came here to start a basketball team that eventually became the main red clause I had to negotiate with this tough negotiator to do the lease agreement at the expo and many other things and she was tough and frankly I admired that and and we have over the years become very good friends and so when I talked to the city council about becoming the city manager there was only one person that I needed beside me every step of the way and that was Anita Anita is brilliant at municipal government and her years of service to this city are unparalleled she helps in every conceivable way from the budget from parks and recreation of course which she led for many years she was an intern for the city was it 38 years ago 38 years ago yeah something like that so I there is no way I could do the job that I do every single day without Anita unfortunately for me and I think for the city she's decided that she is going to retire in July of next year and so it is going to be a huge loss for the city for me and I think I think she's going to realize for her as well as as much as she may think otherwise right now but Anita on behalf of all of us in this room on behalf of all the other staff that work for this city and who have worked in the city in the past and the city counselors who you served with for decades thank you for everything so I made them all promise that I wouldn't get a going away party so I guess this is the payback for that they did a really good job of keeping a secret and you're right I will lose something when I leave I'm going to miss a lot of people but I'm not going very far so thank you so as is tradition the the award that we saved till the very last is the Robert B. Ghandley public service award I did not have the honor of ever meeting Mr. Ghandley but my understanding and certainly the stories that have been passed down to me by both his family and and all of you he was quite a remarkable person he cared passionately about all the people who worked for the city he was tough which I greatly appreciate and he was no nonsense and so this award I think is the most prominent word that we give every single year and so we are making this award today and I'm gonna ask Chris branch to present the award this year's winner of the Ghandley award is Kevin Austin the fleet manager for the public works department Kevin can you come up please Kevin started pretty low down on the totem pole when he got here started out as an account clerk and moved up into the construction company and then over into fleet where he worked his way up to the current fleet manager's position a few comments from the nomination of the person who submitted Kevin for the Ghandley award from the minute Kevin walks in his office he has people phone calls and emails to address he deals with so many people coming at him all at once with the most utmost professionalism Kevin's daily job goes anywhere from purchasing expensive equipment to walking down to the pumps with a co-worker because their gas key won't work it's happened to me the service Kevin provides for his co-workers employees supervisors salesmen and outside vendors never differs they are all treated with respect he wears so many hats across all departments without vehicle maintenance the city of Poland would not have properly running vehicles to keep the city operating this is what Kevin has to do every day and he does it with a smile on his face he is always willing to assist and he does so with a cooperative positive attitude he is very knowledgeable and a valuable asset to the city he keeps everybody rolling and happy with the fleet we have especially considering the budget constraints he's up against no matter what he finds a way to make it work he and his staff work tirelessly to keep equipment that should have been long ago retired up and running even though he doesn't have much interactions with the public what he does behind the scenes benefits the public every day Kevin embodies his description of Bob Ghandley every day he's behind the scenes doing good work that no one really sees that everyone would miss if it were not being done a couple of personal notes on Kevin as I said earlier I've been here about 18 months now the one of the people that I have come to depend on for what they have to say to me is Kevin when he talks to me about the CIP process we have to be able to work with police and fire parking parks and rec to be able to put the vehicles into the CIP that they all need Kevin is the one who does that work it is an extremely difficult job and he keeps although he gets accused on a regular basing of being prejudice towards public works I can tell you that's not the case when I've tried to slip some things in he said no we're not doing that it's not a priority so he tries to do the best that he can get the input from everybody and does a great job I've really enjoyed working with Kevin I also enjoy Kevin is currently building his own house so we talk a little bit about septic systems and washouts and a few other things that have gone on there and he's now working with us to do the fleet services expansion out it to for the relocation out to 250 canco road I just want to say thanks to Kevin for his great work for the city of Portland thank you Kevin just on my on behalf of myself and the rest of the leadership of the city thank you for keeping an amazing division running very very smoothly you and the entire crew at fleet services does just amazing job in fact it's oftentimes it's miraculous because we've neglected our fleet over the years as many of you know because you have to drive some of these antiquated vehicles that we're quickly trying to replace so Kevin you and your entire team you just do a phenomenal job so thank you very much I did want to just mention though the selection committee is comprised of the previous award recipients Keith Ketrow from last year Barbara Barhite Mary McCarthy Kevin Haley Brad Paul Bradbury Mark Spiller Julia Glasek and Kathy Alves as well as the HR staff of Gina Tapp and Carleen Kessler and Jessica Grondin we received 15 nominations this year they were all very very worthy of the of the award but certainly Kevin was selected to be the Ganley award winner this year so do we have anything else any other business let me you go ahead well believe it or not it's 146 and Kathy's timeline was head us ending at 145 so great job again Kathy Kathy Vosmos puts this all together thanks everybody for taking time out of your Friday to come honor all of all of the great work that city employees do and again great great great lunch the Aaron Center staff thank you so much for doing that for us okay thanks I'm John's just gonna say a few final words goodbye no he doesn't want to goodbye have a great weekend thanks for your time


Okay, good morning everyone. My name is David Rowe. I am the Director of Digital Matters and Associate Professor of English Today we're going to have a workshop led by Justin Sorensen. But before we get into that and I give my introduction to him I want to make a few announcements The Tanner Humanity Center and the College of Humanities is hosting Ruha Benjamin an associate professor of African-American studies We'll be here virtually on October 15th giving a talk on her book race after technology We have obviously have some overlapping interests with this event. So I encourage you to check that out second thing is that we have a new media studies reading group where we select a book on a Digital humanities subject broadly conceived and we read it and then we discuss afterwards We put out an announcement where we will give you a way we'll give away free books for those who are interested in participating So please if you're interested in participating in that sign up through our listserv or email Marissa Marissa if you can add your email to the chat box, that'd be great And lastly we have a series of faculty grants and graduate fellowships You probably have heard of already the deadline is tomorrow by midnight Marissa will add the links to the chat box as well And I just want to make it to trust that there are a several different Grant programs. So there is the faculty grant and then there's an exhibition slash performance grant And then there's a graduate fellowship and it's a exhibition slash performance Graduate grant. So please make sure to read up on the differences between them Okay Justin Sorensen is a GIS specialist in the Department of Creativity and Innovation Services here at the Marriott Library Some of this GIS projects include reconstructing the past through Utah Sanborn fire insurance maps and the historical GIS of Salt Lake City An interactive geospatial study of historical Environmental and health written impacts to Salt Lake City today is going to give us a very gentle crash course on GIS All right, let me go ahead and share my screen with you guys Can everybody see that okay, is it okay? Okay, so um, yeah, thank you David. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for today's Virtual workshop titled digital to physical using GIS technology to create 3d co-progressive models My name is Justin Sorensen. I'm the GIS specialist at the J. Willard Marriott Library During my time working within the GIS industry one of the things that I've enjoyed most is utilizing the power of GIS technology to take datasets To an entirely new level and that's what I'll be demonstrating for you today In this workshop, I'm going to be introducing you to an in-house process that we've developed for converting elevation data into 3d models for printing and analysis I'll also be introducing you to a new project that is in the development stages at the marriott library that allows us to Take geospatial datasets and project them onto printed topographic models So, um, do you have any questions about the processes that i'll be covering today? I'm happy to answer those for you at the end of this workshop I'll also be sharing some detailed handouts at that time So that you too can create and print 3d topographic models of areas around the world. So With that, let's go ahead and jump right into this workshop To start things off I'd briefly like to introduce you to what GIS is and why it's so important in our world today GIS is used in many aspects of our lives, whether we realize it or not Um, and really it makes a lot of the modern conveniences possible Now this can range from something as large as monitoring and implementing plans related to vegetation change over time Or something more simple that many of us view on a daily basis using our phones to find and navigate to locations around town GIS stands for geographic information systems or in some recent trends people refer to it as geospatial information systems And this represents a number of different geospatial technologies Software processes and methods for visualizing different types of data within a geospatial context Generally, this type of data is presented in the form of cartographic maps interactive mapping applications and geospatial infographics At its core GIS allows for the visualization analysis and interpretation of data in order to understand relationships patterns and trends and data The way that this is accomplished is through the incorporation of multiple layers Which when brought together creates a geospatial visualization that expresses and enhances data by incorporating visual resources Now these layers can include things such as imagery including satellite and aerial photographs elevation data sets such as contour lines and elevation models demographic data sets such as census information transportation data sets including street networks and railways address information including geocoded and flooded locations physical features including boundaries hydrology and survey control points As well as research data that is collected that an individual may wish to share with their viewers Bringing this information together provides not only an educational experience But also a method for researchers and viewers to answer questions Relate findings and identify solutions that previously may have been unconsidered In today's workshop, we'll be focusing on one particular type of GIS data that can be utilized to create 3D topographic models This type of data is known as digital elevation models or DEM as I'll be referring to it throughout this workshop The DEM is a data set that contains elevation data representing the surface or terrain of the earth That also has this unique ability of being expressed three dimensionally when the appropriate tools and procedures are applied At the level of detail that's contained within these data sets can depend on the resource that you acquire it from So to begin, I'd like to introduce you to a free openly available resource for acquiring high quality DEM data sets that can be used to produce a 3D model The resource we'll be utilizing for acquiring DEM data sets in this workshop is called the National Map Viewer An online resource provided by the United States Geological Survey or to UGS It contains a wide variety of products related to the United States For this workshop, we're going to be focusing on a single feature found within the United States But should you be interested in features found outside the United States Earth Explorer is another online resource provided by the UGS That is a great resource for acquiring such data sets When the National Map Viewer is first launched, you'll see that I'm presented with an overview map of the United States Along with a selection of available data set options to the left To identify available DEM data sets for my project, I begin by selecting elevation products 3DEP within the selection window And I narrow the selection down so that returns results In this case for a one third arc second DEM interval Now you're probably wondering what a one third DEM one third arc second DEM is Basically in a dual spatial perspective, one third data set translates to a model that has elevation changes of 10 meters So each layer of the model represents 10 meters This is one of the highest quality and most commonly available DEM data sets that are available throughout the United States When you begin working with areas outside the United States that turns into One arc second data set and that's more of elevation changes of 30 meters. So It's slightly less detailed than the 10 meter data set I'll be working with today, but it still contains a lot of valuable and useful information for creating 3D models I begin my search by identifying a single location or feature on the map that I can obtain a DEM data set for For today's workshop, I'll be showing you how to create a 3D model of Mount Rainier located in the state of Washington I began by inputting this information into the search box Which navigates me to the location on the map In the new pop-up box, I select find products to display all of the available data sets matching my search criteria In this case a single item is returned containing a one third arc segment or a 10 meter DEM data set representing the area of Mount Rainier Selecting the footprint option provides a preview of the extent that the data set covers on the map and also allows me to verify that the data set will include information on the feature or area of my focus Some additional options that are available include selecting the thumbnail option to preview how the DEM data set will appear when it is open As well as the download option to save the data set to a project folder on my computer Now a tip that I do recommend when you begin generating models from these DEM data sets is to create a new project folder for each project you're developing Doing so helps to avoid any problems with future projects that may utilize the same data set Once the DEM has been downloaded to my project folder I can unzip the file and I'm ready to take the first step towards developing my 3D model This is an example of what the DEM data set looks like It's a geotip image containing the image, elevation information, and location information for automatically overlaying in the correct location within a GIS mapping program Next step in creating a 3D topographic model from a DEM data set is to clip the original downloaded DEM into a specified area, shape, or extent Now this step is completely optional and you can't proceed forward with printing the entire downloaded DEM But you will find that when printing such a large extent, physical details are less visible So I do recommend that you proceed with this process and refine the model into a more focused, detailed, and presentable model of a specific area or feature So in this example, I'll be clipping the DEM to contain only data surrounding the immediate extent of Mount Rainier Which, as you can see, is a very small portion of this downloaded data set To perform this process, you will need access to a version of ArcGIS software Either ArcMap or ArcPro, which is the version that I'll be using for this example Access to both these software programs is available on Patriot computers located at the Marriott Library's Knowledge Commons, University of Utah Computing Labs, and remotely through the CSBS Virtual Lab using your unit name and password As the DEM contains no references to distinguished individual features from, I begin by selecting an appropriate base map for this project I recommend choosing either an imagery with labels base map or a general topographic base map as these will assist in identifying specific areas and features that are found on the map With the reference base map in place, I bring the downloaded DEM into ArcGIS Pro using the add beta tool within the map pulls ribbon at the top of the screen And navigating to the file within the project folder As you can see, once the DEM is added to ArcGIS Pro, it automatically overlays in its appropriate location on the map It also becomes a selectable layer within the table of contents located on the left side of the screen I also have the option to zoom into the layer should it not be so automatically by right clicking on the layer within the table of contents and selecting zoom to layer I then want to adjust the transparency of the DEM layer in order to see both the physical features and references found in the base map as well as the DEM itself By going to the appearance ribbon at the top of the screen and adjusting the transparency slider so that both the base map and DEM are viewable simultaneously And generally what I found is a good reference for this is around 32-40% so I'm putting 30% on this example here Viewing the area directly above the downloaded DEM, I use reference information contained within the base map to identify the area representing Mount Rainier And zoom in for a closer view by hovering over the feature and using the mouse wheel to zoom in I'm now ready to create a shape that represents the extent of Mount Rainier for my model To do this, I begin by creating a feature class that will be used to create a boundary for the DEM features to be clipped The boundary itself can be anything as simple as a circle surrounding the feature, which is what I'll be demonstrating next Choose something a bit more complex like a county or state boundary I begin by going to the catalog panel located on the right side of the screen Navigating to my project folder and right clicking on the associated geodatabase folder and selecting new and feature class Using the feature class tool Using the feature class tool, I input information to create a polygon representing the boundary shape Since I'm only creating a single feature for clipping, there's no need to create large amounts of attribute data for the dataset So I can select okay and complete this process where I can drag and drop this new feature class into the table of contents panel that I just created To create the boundary feature itself I highlight the feature class layer that I just created within the table of contents And within the edit ribbon at the top of the screen, I select create features I want to create a basic shape surrounding Mount Rainier So I select the circle option within the sidebar and select the tool itself within the mapping window Left clicking on the center of Mount Rainier. I drag the circle outward to my desired extent left clicking again to complete the shape Back in the edit ribbon at the top of the screen I select save edits and the new boundary shape is ready to be used to clip the DEM dataset With this boundary layer in place, I'll now click the DEM to export only features representing Mount Rainier contained within that circle To do this, I go to the analysis ribbon at the top of the screen and select tools In the new search window, I search for the clip raster tool and select it from the available options Within the new processing tool window, I input the DEM layer as a layer to be clipped The feature class layer as the boundary to clip features within I name the new DEM file and select both extent boxes then choose run When the process is completed, you'll see that a new clip DEM has been created containing only data representing Mount Rainier within the boundary circle It is this new clip dataset that will be used to generate the detailed 3d model of Mount Rainier for printing and analysis With this export process completed, I can close ArcGIS Pro and move forward to the next step And that next step in the 3d topographic model process is to convert the clip DEM dataset into an actual 3d model Or an SDL file that will be used to generate the final model To do this, you'll need access to a program called QGIS A free, openly available software program available for download from the QGIS website Now unlike ArcGIS Pro, QGIS has one particular tool that was missing for generating a 3d model Called DEM 3d printing I begin the process by opening QGIS Navigating to the new clip DEM dataset and adding it to my QGIS project In the raster menu at the top of the screen, I select DEM to 3d and choose DEM 3d printing In the new processing tool window, I'll input the size and layer information that will be used to generate the 3d model For this process, I'll apply the following information based on specifications for the Marriott Library's task set across the printers For extent, I select Print Full Extent And what this means is that I want to print the entire extent of my clip model as you can see with This red dashboard surrounding the model so I know that this full area is what will be printed For print spacing or how thick I want each layer to be, I want these to be on the thinner slide So I'll select 0.2 millimeters But depending on the detail and the type of model you're working with, I sometimes even reduce this further to 0.15 or 0.1 millimeters For dimensions, I want my model to be the maximum size of the print bed So for the Tata 6 printers, this is about 11 inches or 279.4 millimeters But other printers available at the Marriott Library, such as the Gigabot printer Can print up to a maximum of 24 inches or 609.6 millimeters For the exaggeration field, I want to make sure to emphasize peaks that are found in my model So I'll increase this to anywhere from 1.2 to 1.5 But I have found that anything above 1.5 will distort the features and won't present an accurate representation of what's found in the real world Finally, for height, I input the lowest point indicated in the provided elevation data to the right From here, I select export to SDL Making sure to maintain the default file name for the export The reason that I Sorry, the reason that I say to maintain that default file name is that this avoids a common error that causes the model export process to fail But after the process is completed, you can go back and rename the file name afterward Now depending on the file size the size of your model output and the processing power of your computer This process can take some time to complete But once completed you can open the new model file in a preview program such as print 3d That's found on the windows platform to make sure that everything looks good before closing qgs And what you're seeing on screen now is just an example of what that exported model looks like within print 3d Gives you a good idea of how the model Looks if you can see any features that you want to change before you move on in the process and just a good overview of the model itself Now with the 3d model now generated. We're ready. We're really in the home stretch I'll now use an additional program to convert the 3d model from its sdl file into a code that the 3d printer Will use to put the final model Now there are many programs available to perform this process But the one that i'll be using for this workshop is called prusa slicer It's another free and openly available program that you can find and download from their website This program along with another program called cura are also available on dedicated model slicing machines Computers located in the proto space area of level two at the marriott library Uh, those machines also are preset with information on the available 3d printers that are found in the same space So for this process i'll go into slicer and begin adding the x by exporting the I'll begin by adding the export 3d model that I created in the previous step Utilizing the available tools within slicer. I can apply changes to the final model including adjustments to the overall scale Removal of additional material that was generated during the export process And other features that are available as well In this example, I am actually removing the square border that is surrounding the model So that the final output contains a circular model representation of not right here Once i'm satisfied with the appearance of the final model. I select the slice now tool to begin generating the layers of the model to be printed Now this process is very interesting as it provides an interactive preview of each layer of the printed model and an overall understanding of how the printing process will proceed Once the slicing process is completed. I select export gcode and save the file to my project folder It's this gcode file that will be loaded onto the 3d printer and used to create a printed model of matt rainier After reviewing the return information on size print time and print filament requirements I can close slicer and move on to the printing my 3d graphic model So we have the gcode the final model is ready to go. We're now ready to begin the 3d print The printing process can be as simple as finding a 3d printer such as those located in proto space Loading the exported gcode onto the printer's sd card Loading some printing filament onto the printer itself and selecting print What you end up with is something like this a detailed model of matt rainier created using the processes covered in today's workshop and printed on a machine located at the marriott library The marriott library has a number of lot of 3d printers available for use by students staff and faculty at the university of utah with expert staff on hand to assist in answer questions Pictures of the model in the slides and actually I'm going to hold it up for you the actual model itself that you're seeing through my webcam Really don't do it justice Unless you see it in person But as you can see in these images and what I'm holding here the model itself really is quite detailed and provides a very good representation of how matt rainier is found within the real world So and no, it's it's pretty light easy to work with so Now as you begin developing your own 3d topographic models It's important to know that experts at the marriott library are available to support the development of your project and assist with questions that you have along the way Should you require assistance generating topographic models? I'm happy to help provide a one-on-one consultation to support and help you understand the model generation process Or resolve any issues you experience in its development And those consultations can be scheduled by visiting the gis services website Additionally our expert staff in 3d printing services are available to assist with the model slicing process and any issues experienced using the 3d printers Additional information about those available printers and details for performing a 3d print can be found on their web page And I would also recommend visiting that page as well for any changes that may have been implemented at this time due to covid So as you've seen today dm datasets are extremely useful for creating 3d topographic models of features found around the world But the process of simply printing and examining these models is just the beginning I'd now like to introduce you to a new project in development at the marriott library The idea for this project started simple How can we combine the power of gis technology with 3d printing? The important role that gis plays has the ability to be taken to a new level Protecting various geospatial datasets directly on depended 3d models Stage one of the projection concept began in 2018 We began with simplified 3d topographic prints Now these were strictly for test purposes and we knew based on the quality output that we received that high quality Data would be needed should the project progress to a new level In these images you can see the results of our initial testants and the efforts to project gis data from google maps onto the model held projector While simplistic in its approach results proved that the possibility for projecting data onto the models was there And that the project had great potential if taken to the next level Stage two of the projection concept began in 2019 The process for acquiring exporting and converting the em datasets into customized 3d models was refined with larger highly detailed models being created In this example, you can see the large-scale wall-mounted model of solid county credited almost two feet wide with silver filament The stage two projection concept utilizes a mobile projection unit with various static images of data continuously projected on Raspberry pi computer And this is an example of that slide show in action Justin, I think we lost you Oh, looks like he dropped out. Oh, there he is. Are you back? Justin Thanks frozen Bear with us folks Hopefully he's back online soon Justin, can you hear us? I can hear you. Can you hear me? We can now or you're cutting out. I think your connection is pretty unstable While we're waiting, um, if Justin handed you You or marissa this handouts might want to we pass that out To the participants marissa. Do you have those? I don't think I have just in handouts Um, no, he's he said that he was going to distribute them Afterwards, okay You guys hear me, okay Uh, now we can You can hear okay. I'm sorry. It looks like I was booted off. I don't know what happened there Okay Okay, you can hear me. Okay. Yeah, let's give it another go Okay, I apologize for that So, um, what I was mentioning is that you can see the various layers projected onto the model while it's in action We brought different things based on like elevation census information Demographics information like that. So it's really interesting what you can do by projecting that data For the um, oh, sorry, and then here's some additional images So you can see a side angle of the solid county model The different details of different canyons the topology going on But then the image to the right you can see just how well the data that we're collecting with the gis is projecting directly onto the model So it aligns very well overall For the next stage of the project concept the projection concept Further develop and fine-tuned project is in development Currently, I've generated scale models of all 29 Utah counties and submitted them to expert Our expert 3d printing services team for large-scale printing When it's complete a large demographic model of utah with individually interconnected county tiles will be on display in the marriott library Approximately five feet by four feet in size A high quality 4k projector will be installed either on a stand or from the ceiling and project interactive gis data sets onto the large-scale model Controlled by a tablet or a computer system that patrons will have the ability to incorporate their own data sets on Now as the project is in development, it's unknown exactly when it will be deployed So I do recommend staying tuned to the marriott libraries website blog posts and the gis services webpage for more information on that as it becomes available Um with that I would like to conclude this workshop by thanking each of you for taking time to join us today And for your interest in learning more about the 3d topographic model project and services we're working on at the library Um, I hope the workshop is helpful and providing information for developing your own 3d topographic projects and ideas for applying these processes to projects you're developing on your own again, should you need assistance with developing a model or Creating a 3d print. Please feel free to reach out to me and gis services or a member of our 3d printing services team with any questions that you have um with that I will go ahead and Upload the handouts for this workshop To the chat window. Let me go ahead and do that now So while just is doing that we have time for some questions Um, and I think if you want to just type in your questions, rebecca will moderate But also if you'd like to just ask, please raise your hand either visually or with the emoticons I'll start just that. I I was trying to look for the dem data in the usgs government website I'm assuming you have it. I'm not the handout, but do What would I search for because it's a very large website and quite complicated Yeah, so um in section two of the handouts that i'm providing it tells you um What particular data set you want to be looking under in this case you're looking for that elevation product 3d ep That's what the actual file or folder that it's contained under is called And from there you just narrow it down selecting the one third arc second And that's the best high quality data that they offer at this time. So I'm sorry, what you have a link on the handout Yeah, there's a link on the handout as well And when I was mentioning earlier about one third arc second being the most high quality throughout the united states There are some areas like I think I believe in salt lake area You can get a two meter data set, but it's just not high available, you know throughout the entire nation. So one third is that available nationwide that you want to work with So we have a question in the chat. Actually, we have a couple of questions in the chat box Justin the first one is could you speak more to some of the applications you encountered of dem models? How has it been used in teaching for example? Okay um You know just a lot of them i've seen using for like elevation slope analysis You know different fields use it for different types of information This has been the major use that i've used it for so far is to use these models to create To be able to analyze different slopes different areas around the world Not really sure how others are being used or specifically in teaching But my hope is that you know with the projection system we're working on developing that This would be a use for that in a teaching environment People would be able to bring their data in projected onto models and see it actually in action So having hands-on component as well Our next question is perhaps i missed you talking about this But i'm interested to know what colors you tested for the 3d models to be projected on What the various results were and why you settled on dark gray instead of the original white? It's a good question. Um We the initial test was actually on red and let's just say red doesn't work very well for 3d Topa models Three white actually in this model that we're looking at here It works well, especially for projection But the kind of issue with it when you're looking at it from the side and stuff It's hard to see all the different You know features the details of the terrain that's going on here Silver was a very good compromise for both of them It allowed for the projection that it didn't overshadow anything You could see the different angles and shadows of the different terrains taking place on here And even when it wasn't projected it was a good reference model for working with that. So um white does work well, but Silver just seemed to stand out a lot more and catch people's attention as well Okay, thanks, um our next question Um, I'd be curious what problems you ran into during this project And also the problems that amateurs might run into when using this data and building a model Uh, one of the biggest problems we ran into was in the export process We initially tried to bypass ArcGIS pro completely just doing like the clip analysis within QGIS And for some reason or another that program just does not want to cooperate with this So that's why I highly suggest using ArcGIS pro to do clipping and stuff like that um That's kind of another thing Running into a problem is having to use multiple programs to create these models Ideally, I would like to see us just use ArcGIS pro and then go right to slicer um, I attended a GIS conference a virtual one over the summer where I actually was able to speak with people in charge at esri who created the ArcGIS program And I talked to them about this saying, you know, we we really like to see this a DM export that we can create our 3d models from So it's on their list, but unfortunately, it's not available in the current release Um, but in also in terms of what I'm going to change amateurs might run into I think it's just learning the process these steps in GIS which the handouts really line step by step So once you start mastering these processes you learn about the tools that you need to use It just helps you move forward and then you can start incorporating more things as you go down the road We have another question Justin, do you find that you lose detail when printing larger areas such as a state instead of a single mountain? Absolutely, so I mean we're looking at with the Mount Rainier. This is probably I'm going to say that's maybe five miles. I'm not really sure how far we did that But when you do a similar model that's the same size as this Mount Rainier For instance, we printed in Salt Lake County at that same size. You can see the different features like little conwood big conwood canyon But you can't really get an idea of the actual mountains themselves So like if you were to look at Mount Olympus down at the base of the canyon or something like that It you can tell there's a peak there, but you can't get all those different features like you'd be getting in a large scale. So Yeah, um, it really just depends though on what your project concept is if you're looking to do something statewide and you're not worried about, you know really fine-tuned representation of a mountain, you know Larger area works well, but for something like this, you know, you definitely want to increase that and focus on something very specific Okay, I think we have another question in the chat box Anyone else have any questions? I don't see any in here that we've missed unless there was one higher up My mistake Just and I have a question does anyone ever try to create their own data set that they would then use for gis projects? Or is it always using data that a government or someone else has already collected I haven't seen anybody try to create like dem data sets or anything like that But one of the things we do with gi services is people come in they have research data They want to create so maybe plotting locations on a map or features like Streams or old road networks or something that doesn't exist So that's the kind of things that they can come in and get helped with creating as well. So You know, it's kind of a Yeah, it's just really project-based really, but yeah, that's been kind of my experience with people working with at the university What about Oh, sorry, go ahead Uh, just one of what about non natural data sets are there like dm data sets for cities um So like getting like right down to the street level data and stuff buildings and stuff is that building? Yeah, is that right? Yeah There is a possibility to do that one of the things that we were working on testing before covid hit was working with LiDAR data so we could actually see you know an actual representation of the Like university campus what we were looking at to see how the buildings would rise in the model and stuff And there definitely is a good possibility for that. So as long as the data exists Um, it's definitely possible to create stuff like that. So But there's nothing out there already where you can just download the data like with us um For more specific data like that with LiDAR stuff you're looking at I mean the data is out there some of it is public domain and accessible others You're paying to have it done because people go through these processes to create it and are willing to sell it for subscriptions something like that Um, but yeah, I I always feel that if you can learn the process the tools to use this and create it yourself Even the better so Okay, we have another new question that came in Uh, I work with high school students interested in gis Is this something that they can access in the library even though they're not u of u students? If not, do you know of any programs or resources that they can access? Okay, um, I believe they're referring to accessing the ArcJS software within the library um I believe you could just come up to the library and use that You'd probably want to get like a visitor pass. Um, again check with um, like the library status right now for Our allowing access to the library under our current restrictions um, but um, you know There may be ways to also acquire you say you work for a high school or working with high school students Maybe there's an educational license that esri could apply and allow you to use ArcJS within those settings as well. So So can you all add Answer just by saying that in in normal times in non coronavirus times we do welcome Um anyone to come into the library and ask questions and use a lot of our resources During coronavirus because we're trying to employ social distancing and keep, you know Foot traffic to a minimum right now. You do have to have a u card to enter the library Um, and then just and I'm not sure if you kind of operate this way as well But for me when I was doing research data management services I could help community patrons if they had questions about data I just had to prioritize faculty and student projects But then if I had bandwidth I could help community members So maybe do you operate that same way with GIS where you have to prioritize faculty and students? But then are able to help community patrons Like oh, absolutely Absolutely, and you know with fact kind of the way GIS services works just to kind of give you guys an idea You know, we have a lot of faculty professors coming working on research projects. So we give them a lot of hands-on development um students and um You know graduate undergraduate students come in we help them they're working on projects in you know They need just assistance understanding processes that they're learning in class and stuff like that But I have worked with community patrons as well kind of giving them insight on the projects what's possible and stuff like that. So We have a comment in the chat box as well Um, it says, um, I feel this could be very helpful for social cartography and field work Especially to work with rural communities and just thank you. We've seen a couple. Thank yous come through Justin also awesome That comment though about doing field work in rural communities, but That's there Oh, and I like that comment right there. Esri has a bundle for school. So that's excellent to know Well, I think we're at time If there are any other questions, I'm sure Justin if you don't mind putting your email in the chat box people will email you directly Uh, and yeah, I can put it in the chat box and it's also um on the handouts themselves Um, so yeah, please feel free to reach out to me Any questions? I'm sorry. Did you already upload the handouts? Uh, yeah, I did. I can upload it again if It's on there They're in the chat box if you scroll up But I also think um marissa will probably distribute them to the digital matters listserv with a link to this recording And if you're not on the digital matters listserv, please do let us know and we'd love to add you to that So you're always aware of what events are coming up And just and just added it again. So it's at the bottom now Great, uh, thank you very much justin for the great workshop. Thanks for leading and thanks rebecca for moderating and thank you everybody for attending


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