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The social media opportunities some local governments are missing >
It shouldn't be just for announcing meetings, holiday office
closures, or road construction. Local governments should see platforms
like Twitter and Facebook as powerful tools for building community, not
just posting city hall selfies. Digital community-building doesn't begin
and end with the sender delivering a message people want to hear. At
the civic level, community-building occurs when local governments
recognize and elevate the important role residents play. Read more
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Producing more tax revenue through modest annual grand-list growth
is the crucial third leg of Hartford, Connecticut’s Mayor Luke Bronin’s
stabilization plan, but for the second year in a row, that leg is
buckling. After seeing the total value of its taxable property fall 1
percent last year to $4.1 billion, Hartford’s upcoming grand list is
expected to slightly decrease again. A key reason why this year’s list
won’t hit Bronin’s 1.5-percent growth target is because a significant
number of commercial property owners successfully challenged their
property valuations in court, leading to lower tax bills. Read more
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A nonprofit for kids with cancer run by former tennis star Andrea
Jaeger was flagged recently for wrongfully collecting tax breaks after
she allegedly tried to mislead state and county officials that her
property in La Plata County, Colorado, was being used for the charity.
The issue reached a breaking point in October when Jaeger, trying to
prove the property was being used for the nonprofit, invited county
officials to an event she said was for kids with cancer. At the event,
however, county officials learned the children were from a local school
and were not sick. Read more
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+ Learn about GIS/Val Tech Conference at free webinar >
Want
to know more about the upcoming 2020 GIS/Valuation Technologies
Conference taking place in Louisville? Sign up for the free webinar,
"Everything You Need to Know: 2020 GIS/Valuation Technologies
Conference," set for noon Thursday, Feb. 27. Whether you are already
registered for the conference or on the fence about joining, this free
webinar featuring IAAO and URISA staff is here to help. Come learn the
ins, the outs, and the must-sees directly from the people who make this
event possible. Read more
+ Graphs and Assessment subject of IAAO webinar >
IAAO Director of Strategic Initiatives Larry Clark will lead the
Feb. 26 webinar on "How to Use and Interpret Graphs in Assessment," a
presentation on the use of graphs in appraisal analysis. He will walk
webinar participants through using graphs in Excel, reviewing how to use
them, and also how to interpret them. He will also review the process
of selecting graphs that work best in different situations by using a
sales example and showing how different graphs present different
results. Read more
+ Emerging Leadership Summit registration closes soon >
Registration closes soon for the Emerging Leadership Summit, scheduled
for April 2-3 at the George W. Dunne Cook County Office Building in
downtown Chicago. The Summit is designed to provide a powerful
professional development opportunity for emerging leaders wanting to
advance their careers in the assessment industry. Attendees will develop
the skills needed to navigate the unique dynamics of a typical
assessment office and discover leadership tools needed to guide an
assessment office into the future. Read more
+ Academic Partnership Program deadline is Feb. 28 >
The deadline to submit for the IAAO Academic Partnership Program has
been extended to Feb. 28. The program provides financial support for
students and faculty to complete research in areas related to property
appraisal, assessment administration, and property tax policy.
Submission of a satisfactory report for publication by the editor of any
IAAO publication and presentation at an IAAO conference is required.
Graduate and postgraduate students and faculty at accredited
colleges/universities are eligible and funding for each approved project
will be between $2,500 and $5,000. Read more
+ Registration for Prep & Trial Seminar now open >
Registration is now open for the 2020 Preparation and Trial of the
Property Tax Appeal Seminar, June 18-19, on the campus of Drake
University at Cartwright Hall in Des Moines, Iowa. For the first time,
the mock trial will feature a case involving a big-box store. Will
Shepherd, legal counsel for the Hillsborough County, Florida, Property
Appraiser's Office, and Peter Korpacz, president of Korpacz Realty
Advisors Inc., are assisting in adapting the case for the mock trial.
Shepherd was the lawyer who argued the original case, and Korpacz was an
expert witness. Read more
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+ Hot Topic: 65 and over senior programs >
IAAO Connect members are currently discussing homestead exemptions and other programs various states offer. Read more
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AROUND THE INDUSTRY
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+ Poll: Texans want voter approval of property tax hikes >
Texas voters believe local governments should have voter approval
to raise property tax revenues more than a set amount, and a majority
said that will not prevent those governments from providing needed
services or responding to growth, according to the latest University of
Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. Read more
Strong tenant demand for big box industrial buildings in the
Chicago region caused a surge in new leasing and tenant expansion
activity that resulted in a new record of 17.4 million square feet of
net absorption in 2019. A newly released report by Colliers
International states that last year’s net absorption easily eclipsed the
previous record of 16.1 million square feet recorded in 2016. Read more
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has named a new County
assessor. Eddie Cook will step into the spot vacated by former County
Assessor Paul Petersen. Petersen resigned in January in the wake of an
adoption fraud scandal. Read more
Permits for new houses rose to a more than 12-year high in January
as builders began shifting into high gear amid a property shortage.
Single-family home authorizations, as permits are known, jumped to
987,000 at a seasonally adjusted annual pace, the highest since June
2007, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday. The January rate was a
gain of 6.4% from December. Overall permits, including multifamily units
and single-family homes, jumped 9.2% to an annual pace of 1.551
million, the highest level since March 2007. Read more
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| + Minot, North Dakota >
+ Red Deer, Alberta, Canada >
Senior Property Assessor/Analyst, The City of Red Deer See more
+ Fort Lauderdale, Florida >
Appeals Specialist, Broward County Property Appraiser See more
+ Albuquerque, New Mexico >
Valuation Relief Manager, Bernalillo County See more
+ Greenwich, Connecticut >
Assistant Tax Assessor, Town of Greenwich See more
+ Orlando, Florida
Commercial Real Estate Appraiser Analyst I, Orange County Assessor's Office See more
+ Nashua, New Hampshire
+ Charleston, West Virginia
Tax and Revenue Director, The West Virginia State Tax Department See more
+ Florence, Arizona
+ Fairbanks, Alaska
Borough Assessor, Fairbanks North Star Borough See more
+ Salisbury, North Carolina
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