Welcome City of Richfield to Special Assessments
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LOGIS would like to welcome the City of Richfield to the Special Assessments application. Richfield has been a LOGIS member for many years utilizing several applications. This year they decided they would like to start utilizing the Special Assessments application. Conversion of data is nearly complete and they expect to be live before the end of the first quarter 2019.
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Category: Special Assessments
LOGIS would like to welcome the City of Moorhead. Moorhead was in need of a new system to track their Special Assessments and decided the LOGIS Property Data / Special Assessment system was their best option. Currently the data conversion is nearly complete. The next step is data validation and data reporting. Expected go live date will be very soon.
On April 11, 2018 a new version of eProperty was implemented. This version contains many requested enhancements. One of these enhancements was the ability to display the original assessment amount instead of the total assessment amount (original amount minus any payments) or both amounts. Programming was implemented which now allows for both amounts to be displayed or just one of the amounts. The column headings for these amounts can also be customized to accurately display what is in each column.
Many assessment and special assessments users often use the import function to quickly load a list of parcels or load a master special assessment from a spreadsheet. However, the latest release of Windows security patches disabled this important feature. Users started getting an “Unexpected error from external database driver (1)” error.
A new PDS release (2017.10.09.0) was rolled out to the LOGIS members on October 10, 2017. Included in this release was the much requested, “P&I report by PID”. This report will list the details of the assessment master (term, interest rate, and 1st year payable). The highly requested part is the amortization schedule for all parcels in the assessment master will now be listed, each one on their own page. This report can be customized for each member.
The Annual Special Assessments (SA) User Group meeting was held on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. This is a great opportunity for the SA users to come together to discuss changes they need to see in the system, changes made the past year and best practices.
Occasionally there is a need to remove an assessment detail record from a Special Assessment Master (SA Master) and add it to another SA Master. This would normally require the detail record to be deleted from the SA Master and created in a new SA Master. Recent enhancements to the transfer screen allow a new SA Master to be created automatically with the click of the mouse. A copy button was added which will create a new SA Master with most of the information from the original SA Master. Once the new SA Master is created, one or more detail records can be selected to be moved to the new SA Master.
The date of the annual fall Special Assessments User Group meeting is quickly approaching. Scheduled for Thursday, August 17, 2017, this date is earlier than normal. Fall is especially busy for Special Assessment departments finalizing & balancing assessments, hence the earlier date as requested by the users.
Special Assessment Departments regularly receive payments from Title Companies to pay off Levied and Pending Special Assessments for Parcels.
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