Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing — May 20, 2020 Page 20
The other, going into the full measure and list revaluation, it is very common when any municipality enters
into a full measure and list, you would not lay off your staff. City Assessors will continue to work hard, they
will evaluate property, they will inspect property and they will work with the staff from Vision day in and day
out. They continue to do that now. So it is not when you enter into a full measure and list common to lay off
all of your City Staff even though, yes, Ms. Ortolano is correct, the contract with Vision states Vision is
required to inspect building permits after April 1°.
Chairman Dowd
OK thank you.
Ms. Ortolano Chairman Dowd?
Chairman Dowd
Yes.
Ms. Ortolano Just one quick follow up. You know, | do take exception to the you know “how hard they work
with exemptions and credits”. That is a position that is assigned to one of the clerical members who primarily
handles that. And this is a busy season because this is the exemption credit season. But | read the last
Director's Report that was given at the Board of Assessor’s Meeting and | talked about how the Assessors or
the Assessing Staff had been very busy, they had 90 e-mails that month and responded to around 170 calls.
| mean | do the math; 90 e-mails among 8 people for a month is an e-mail every other day. | don’t consider
that a heavy load.
Chairman Dowd
Ok less than one minute.
Ms. Ortolano The phone calls | also —- 170 among 8 people. | don’t consider that a heavy load and | am just
going to tell you | find some of this discussion simply not credible. And that’s all | am going to say. Thank
you.
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