A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, July 22, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Aldermanic Chamber.
President Lori Wilshire presided; City Clerk Patricia Piecuch recorded.
Prayer was offered by City Clerk Patricia Piecuch; Alderwoman-at-Large Shoshanna Kelly led in the Pledge
to the Flag.
The roll call was taken with 11 members of the Board of Aldermen present; Alderman Harriott-Gathright.
Alderwoman Melizzi-Golja, and Alderman Lopez were recorded absent. Alderman Ben Clemons arrived after roll
call at 7:02.
President Wilshire turned the meeting over to Alderman Dowd, Chair of the Budget Review Committee,
to conduct the public hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING
R-19-159
AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY TREASURER TO ISSUE BONDS NOT TO EXCEED
THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,300,000)
FOR PROPERTY REVALUATION SERVICES
Kim Kleiner gave a brief overview of R-19-159 before the Board heard public testimony.
Alderman Dowd
This evening we are going to be having a public hearing on R-19-159 authorizing the Mayor and City Treasurer
to issue bonds not to exceed the amount of $1,300,000.00 for property revaluation services. Is there someone
from the City who would like to come up and explain the Ordinance?
Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director Good evening Chair and Members of the Budget Committee. As
we all know from last year's management audit report and from the improvement plan that was presented to all
of you at the full Board in April, this has been an item that has been addressed and brought forward and has
the Mayor's full support. It is an item that we feel is crucially necessary to deal with our data within the
Assessing Office. This has not happened since 1991. This would be a full measure and list over a three-year
period. There would be two attempts and then a third to get into all properties.
We are looking at beginning the project in October with a start-up meeting between the City and the State
DRA. In 2022 a full statistical would finish the project. Now it’s important for people to realize is as these
properties are being entered and data is being collected, data corrections to properties occur right away; so
this not that data corrections wait until the end. That is not so. It is just like if our assessors were to go out and
to find errors within a property card; we would make those changes right away.
So over the three-year period there are updates and changes to these properties as information is obtained.
Then at the end in 2022 we would have a full statistical update. Again as with any statistical update full
measure list a use report would be required to be submitted to the DRA for acceptance. | am happy to take
any questions.
Alderman Tencza
So this full list and measure, we wouldn’t be able to then wait another 5 years to do an assessment. The DRA
would require us to do one again within 5 years of this year?
