Don Meltz
Climate Smart Coordinator
City of Hudson, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Meltz is a seasoned planner and Climate Smart Coordinator with nearly a decade in public service and over 20 years of hands-on land-use consulting across the Hudson Valley and beyond. He leads Columbia County’s climate mitigation, adaptation, and education efforts while serving as a bridge between elected officials, staff, and community stakeholders. As a Senior Planner and adjunct GIS instructor, he combines spatial analysis expertise with practical policy implementation and a preference for "less politics, more geo." His background in biology and regional planning gives him a systems-minded approach to sustainable community development. Quietly entrepreneurial, he previously ran his own planning and GIS practice, bringing private-sector agility to public initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
BA, Biology, BA, Biology at Franklin Pierce UniversityHudson High SchoolMRP, Regional Planning, MRP, Regional Planning at State University of New York at Albany
Github Skills (18)
spatial7
gis6
openstreetmap6
recipe6
wps6
system-information5
shapefile5
data-management5
gdal5
qgis5
geotools5
tms4
ogc4
wcs4
wms4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
donmeltz/US-States---Hexbins
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:75 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
donmeltz/Dons_Super_Bowl_Chili
Feb 2020 - Feb 2024
Open Source Chili Recipe
Contributions:10 pushes in 3 years 11 months
recipe
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