During the past six months, the DAS/Office of Fixed Asset Management and the OAKS Fixed Asset Team have been engaged in a project to create a single source of data for all state-owned buildings and land. When completed, this database will be used for financial reporting, risk management, providing data to DAS/OGRIP's Geographical Information System (GIS), responding to public inquiries and eventually for converting data to OAKS. In addition, this data could be included as part of a secured database used to plan for and respond to emergencies involving the population of the State of Ohio. The project has been named Migration of Ohio's Real Estate (MORE). The project management team consists of DAS/GSD administrators from the Office of Fixed Asset Management, Office of Risk Management, Office of Real Estate Services and the OAKS Fixed Asset Team. Richard Hickman, Deputy Director of DAS/General Services Division, is the project sponsor.

The project began with the team looking at records of state-owned buildings being used by the Office of Risk Management for the state's Catastrophic Property Insurance program. These records were then compared to buildings maintained on the state's Fixed Asset Management System (FAMS) and to the various agencies' in-house inventory reports. These comparisons uncovered several inconsistencies. During the next several months, the MORE project team will be working through the OAKS agency liaisons to resolve these inconsistencies.

For more information about the MORE Project, please contact Shirley Whaley, OAKS Fixed Asset Team Lead at (614) 387-1873 or at shirley.whaley@oaks.state.oh.us.