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ACCOUNTING 101
SAFETY & EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
MAP FEATURES
SUSTAINABILITY
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
100
Vendors must submit this when requesting payment:
What is an invoice?
100
Summarized by the acronym R.A.C.E., any employee should immediately take these steps if a fire is discovered.
What are Rescue, Activate, Contain, and Evacuate/Extinguish?
100
This map feature, which comes in all sorts of pointy designs and can have a letter “N” next to it, tells you the map’s orientation by indicating which direction is North.
What is a North Arrow?
100
Passed in 2004, a County policy that commits Mecklenburg County to operating as a good steward of the environment
What is the Environmental Leadership Policy?
100
This 3 letter abbreviation for Global Positioning System is essential for collecting data in the field and helping to locate hidden Geocaches with handheld devices.
What is GPS?
200
This is required for purchasing goods and services in excess of $3000:
What is a Purchase Order?
200
Located on each computer’s desktop, this plan establishes procedures for the systematic, safe and orderly evacuation of the Hal Marshall Center in case of fire or other emergency.

What is the HMC Evacuation Plan?
200
Photography of the Earth taken from an elevated position, usually from a plane or satellite, is known by this term.
What is aerial photography or aerial imagery?
200
The group of County division and department directors that lead the County’s environmental sustainability efforts
What is the Environmental Leadership Team?
200
These devices are used to print large scale maps, usually on rolls of paper 36” or 42” wide.
What are plotters?
300
Number of days an LUESA employee has to complete a return travel form.
What is 2?
300
This system, maintained by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Emergency Management, sends real time notifications about events and emergencies that may affect your home, workplace, or other points of interest anywhere in Mecklenburg County.

What are CharMeck Alerts?
300
This term is used to reference basic map features including: roads, town and city boundaries, lakes, streams and ponds.
What is base map?
300
The employee program that rewards Mecklenburg County employees for taking classes on environmental topics, volunteering for environmental efforts, and participating in alternative commutes
What is the WorkGreen/Green Guardian program?
300
This machine maintained by GIS is used to give maps and posters a protective layer of professional polish.
What is a laminator?
400
The dollar limit on what an employee can accept from a customer or a vendor:
What is zero
400
First adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1983, this policy mandates that Mecklenburg County provide each employee with a written hazard communication plan, a list of hazardous chemicals, Safety Data Sheets, labels on containers, and appropriate training.
What is the Hazard Communication Standard?
400
This is the name Google’s360 Degree photography service, which lets you view the images taken from the street level.
What is Street View?
400
The measure that the County uses to assess its progress on environmental sustainability goals
What is the Environmental Leadership Index?
400
To access web-based maps, a user would need internet access and this type of free software rather than programs specifically for GIS.
What is a web browser?
500
The dollar limit for an employee reimbursement using petty cash?
What is $50?
500
Before the Democratic National Convention in 2012, each Mecklenburg County department was required to create one of these plans in order to minimize potential impact of any event capable of disrupting normal business operations. Additionally, each division within LUESA maintains their own plan.
What is Continuity of Operations Plans?
500
These type of angled Aerial Photographs are taken from four different flight patterns.
What are Obliques/ Oblique Images?
500
The employee who is in charge of managing the County’s work with the Environmental Leadership Policy, Environmental Leadership Team, and the Environmental Leadership Index
Who is Marcus Carson in LUESA Support Services?! (Half credit for Heidi)
500
GIS software can either be licensed through a vendor or this type, which is developed and maintained by a community of users.
What is Open Source?