
Mapping Non-Discrimination Phase 1 – Title VI Evan Olsen Federal Programs Planner WSDOT Lise Goss GIS Manager WSDOT
27 Languages • 6,307,500 WA Total • 503,000 LEP individuals Spanish Chinese Vietnamese Russian Korean Tagalog African Languages Other Slavic Languages Other Pacific Islander Languages Other Indic Languages Japanese Mon-Khmer/Cambodian Other Asian Languages Arabic German Other Indo-European Languages Laotian French Thai Persian Hindi Serbo-Croatian Hmong Polish Portuguese Italian Scandinavian Languages
Why this, why now? • Increase outreach • Address indirect impact • More accessible information • Title VI focused demographics • General compliance • Federal emphasis
Guiding principles • Easy to use • Intuitive • User driven • Input yields great output • Tool for multiple uses
What is this project? • Web based application • Visual display of data • Built in thresholds (5% or 1,000) • Customizable • Mapping skills are not required
What this is NOT • Silver bullet • Automatic compliance with regulations • Assurance of grant award
Uses • Outreach and public involvement • Charts for grant applications • Demographic analysis
Data Sources • US Census • American Community Survey– 5 year
Timeline • Phase 1 (Thru Sept 2013) • Language • Minority • Print Report • Phase 1 Beta (1 month - TBD) • Testing group needed • Phase 2 (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014) • Disability • Income/Poverty • Age • Veteran • Phase 2 Beta (spring 2014)
Ask Yourself… • Do you see this tool providing a benefit to your agency? • How would you use this? • Would you pay money to use this?
Questions • Evan Olsen olsene@wsdot.wa.gov | 360-705-6929 • Lise Goss gosse@wsdot.wa.gov | 360-705-7386