Ohio School District Boundary Update

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Ohio School District Boundary Update The
Evolution of School District Boundaries in Ohio

• Lane Wood
• Enterprise Shared Services
• Ohio Office of Information Technology

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The Evolution of School District Boundaries in
Ohio

• Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
• TIGER SD Boundaries
• Enhanced TIGER SD Boundaries
• Parcel Dissolve
• Clean-up (aligned, extended, conflated)

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Enhancements to TIGER School District Boundaries
- 2004

• Prompted by Census Bureau request to provide SD
  boundary updates on hardcopy maps
• Partnership with Ohio Dept. of Education
• Utilized services of Cleveland State
  University/Northern Ohio Data Information
  Services
• Geocoded registered voters
• Identified gaps, errors, areas of discrepancy
• Submitted to Census Bureau for review most were
  accepted into TIGER

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School District Boundary UpdateParcel Dissolve -
2005

• Business need Accurate boundaries for tax
  district determination
• Parcels for 48 counties
• Work performed by Woolpert
• Dissolved parcels create tax districts and school
  districts
• Leveraged parcels collected for Ohio Dept of
  Agricultures Premise ID Program (supports US
  Animal Identification Project)

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Resulting Product
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School District Boundary Conflation - 2007

• Partnership between OIT and the Ohio Department
  of Education
• Enhancement to parcel based SD boundaries
• Contracted with Data Enhancement Services for
  conflation
• Aligned, extended, conflated to existing datasets
  to create seamless SD boundaries for 34 counties
• Data sources county, township municipal
  boundaries, centerlines, railroads, other
  geographic features

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Resulting Product
Seamless, parcel based school district boundaries
for 34 counties
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Before
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After
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Final Product
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Final Product - Allen Co Compared to TIGER SD
boundaries
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Final Product Fairfield CoCompared to TIGER SD
boundaries
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Final Product Clark CoCompared to TIGER SD
boundaries
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Final Product Franklin CoCompared to TIGER SD
boundaries
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Parcels is where its all at

• Parcels for 48 counties
• Captured for Agrs Premise ID
• Leveraged for
• SD Bound Update
• Master Address File
• Enterprise Geocoding Service
• Treasurers Real Estate Inventory
• Local government input into business processes
  decisions

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Benefits Uses

• Ohio Department of Education Identified
  Themselves as the Business Owner

• Realization recognition that an accurate
  updated school district boundary is supportive of
  the Ohio Enterprise

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Benefits Uses

• SD IT Administration
• Tax district determination
• Tax Finder online service
• SD IT DQ Program
• Up to 30 increase in tax revenue
• Tax Analysis
• Student transportation funding

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Available in GIServOhio Clearinghouse
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Moving Forward

• Continue relationship with County Auditors to
  receive up-to-date parcel information
• Inclusion in TIGER
• Support initiatives that further parcel
  development

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Questions

• Lane Wood
• Enterprise Shared Services
• Ohio Office of Information Technology
• 614-753-8392
• lane.wood_at_ohio.gov