Board of Aldermen 06-11-2019 Page 3
READING MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
There being no objection, President Wilshire declared the minutes of the Board of Aldermen
meeting of May 28, 2019, accepted, placed on file, and the reading suspended.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING ONLY PROCEDURAL ACTIONS AND WRITTEN REPORTS
FROM LIAISONS
From: Paula Johnson
Re: 0©-19-044
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.
From: Patricia D. Piecuch
Re: Proposed City Charter Amendments — R-18-073
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.
From: Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Division Director
Re: Email sent to the Board, June 4, 2019, L. Ortolano
City Clerk Piecuch
“Dear Members of the Board,
| am writing to correct some of the inaccurate statements which have been sent to the Board of
Aldermen and Board of Assessors in the past week.
Attorney Mark Broth is conducting an independent investigation regarding the allegations against Mr.
Turgiss. | am not seeking to influence that investigation in any way. | am seeking to correct
misinformation. Accordingly, we respectfully request this communication be read into the record and
placed on file.
We continue to receive multiple Right to Know requests, almost daily, from a member of the public
regarding this matter. In an email dated June 4, 2019 Ms. Laurie Ortolano stated, "Greg [Turgiss]
visited 3 properties in January, 3 in February... and 1 in March. The email then asks how Mr.
Turgiss could have driven 660 miles in those 3 months.
Ms. Ortolano cites an AssessPro report as authority for the statement. This report was given in
response to a Right to Know request, its intended use and the data it collects were not discussed.
Ms. Ortolano's statement is inaccurate because the AssessPro report in no way captures all of the
work, or all of the properties visited, by any assessor in a given time. The report only indicates that
during a certain time period the assessor used AssessPro to make corrections with respect to the
listed property. An assessor typically performs a great deal more work and makes a great deal more
property visits than are captured on this report. For one example, a visit may be in order for the
investigation of a charitable exemption, where the assessor needs to evaluate if the building is being
used for a qualified charitable purpose by the applicant. This would not warrant a change to the
property card captured in this report.
The email from Ms. Ortolano also infers that Mr. Turgiss is checking work within the assessor's
office. Mr. Turgiss is not in any supervisory role over other assessors or their work. The assessors
are using a peer review approach where their work is reviewed by at least one or more other
