Use the Windward Community College for maintaining the WDBIS.

KBAC should utilize the facilities and the desires of the Windward Community College to host the WDBIS. Significant resources are available from WCC to accommodate the computing requirements of KBAC.
 

Acquire personnel resources to manage, coordinate, and operate the WDBIS.

The hiring of personnel is required to support the installation, creation, and operation of the WDBIS. KBAC can take two (2) approaches in resolving this issue.

1.    Hire contract services on a short term basis to create the WDBIS data base, and to establish an initial KBAC web page.

2.    Provide funding to WCC for the hiring of a Computer Specialist III to manage and enhance the WDBIS and KBAC Web page for a long term duration.
 

Continue funding GPS and field survey data collection efforts, with greater requirements for activity coordination and documentation of data content, methods, and training.

The use of student stipends has already delivered useful information that was previously unavailable. Continuation of these data collection, along with the GPS data collection efforts of the VWQMP, are providing data needed in understanding and addressing water quality issues. However, KBAC needs to ensure that these efforts are being undertaken in a coordinated and structured manner. KBAC should require additional documentation and reporting on the methods being used to collect the information, and the content of the data dictionary.
 

Pursue acquisition of collateral data sources from other governmental and educational data sources.

Several Local, State, and Federal agencies are collecting similar water quality information. The data available from these agencies are quite extensive, and most likely very valuable to the efforts of the KBAC program. These data would also improve the GPS and field survey data collection efforts and methods.
 

Purchase and install at the WCC the necessary hardware and software to create an Internet compliant compute server and data base.

To create the WDBIS, KBAC needs to purchase the equipment to allow the WCC to host and manage the WDBIS. Some of the equipment items include a Dell PowerEdge compute server, Microsoft SQL Server data base, and ESRI MapObjects Internet Map Server software.
 

Establish a KBAC Internet Web Page.

KBAC would gain significant recognition by establishing an advanced Internet Web Page to publish its activities, findings, data, and reports. The KBAC web page can be used as a mechanism to educate the community on water quality issues and to promote community involvement in solving these issues.
 

Install Community Computers.

To enhance public participation, it is recommended that KBAC purchase 5 additional PCs to be placed in key community organizations or locations for access and use with the WDBIS. The equipment would be a vital educational tool for the community, and could provide a mechanism for communicating ideas on watershed issues among the community.