Graham, Donna
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From: Laurie Ortolanc Qin
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2022 10:05 PM
To: Board of Aldermen
Cc: Board of Assessors; Graham, Donna; Legal Dept; Stepp, Lindsey; Denoncour, Adam;
Gerry, James; Mayors Office Email
Subject: Please DO NOT support ArcGIS $82,040 contract for Assessing Dashboard Consulting
Services
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Donna,
If this can make it into the packet, I would appreciate it.
Laurie
Dear Honorable Board members,
I am requesting that the Board not approve the $82,040 ArcGIS Proposal to develop an integrated
Assessing dashboard interface for property owners. This is not a necessary expense or an
emergency need.
Ms. Kleiner presented this expenditure to the finance committee on April 6, 2021. She claimed the
legal office believes that this can be financed from the bond money from the Vision Government
Solutions revaluation contract. I do not agree that this is the appropriate use of the bond money for
several reasons and will be sending this to the DRA and BTLA for review.
The bond money should not be used to create tools that Ms. Kleiner is calling a transparency
enhancement. We already have all the tools and in the last two years, we invested over $200,000 in
these tools. Currently, cards are accessible online at home and we upgraded the Patriot Property
software at significant costs to taxpayers. Abatement applications are online and the sales search
tools were recreated at a significant cost, and available online. While I had difficulties initially with
the interface, I figured it out and think it works well for sales data. Ms. Kleiner emailed me on
October 20, 2020 to let me know that citizens found the interface easy.
"Many residents have been able to drill down on the dashboards and find the information
they were requesting. These dashboards are pulling specific data from the CAMA system.
Some directions are found in the left hand corner of each dashboard."
Why are we spending bond money to develop tools we don't need? The purpose of the bond is to
equalize all properties and the contract required Vision to hold informal hearings to review the
new assessment with any concerned property owner. What Nashua needs are qualified, credible
