The Village of La Grange recognized the importance of GIS and desired to improve its ability to manage geographical information through the implementation of a village wide, integrated GIS program. The previous model of geographic information data management had proven challenging due to issues with efficiency, data ownership, and data redundancy. By joining the GIS Consortium the Village hopes to improve efficiency, provide data in a transparent way that is easily accessible to the public, tie together data from all Village departments, and provide a long term, sustainable operational and fiscal GIS plan.