Supervisor of Assessments outlines tech upgrades, proposes $75,000 AI digitization supplemental

Alex, the county's Supervisor of Assessments, presented the assessments office budget and highlighted public education efforts, website improvements, and digitization work intended to streamline complaint processing and reduce mailing costs in routine years. Alex explained farmland notices are mailed because farmland is revalued annually under the farm equalization process, which can trigger an assessment notice even if the final tax computation appears unchanged.

The office proposed a $75,000 supplemental to expand a pilot that digitizes deed and sales processing (an AI-assisted tool the office described as TrueRoll integrated with DevNet). Alex said the digitization work would reduce manual processing, improve data collection for appeals and board review, and supports an internal restructuring that promoted the board-review coordinator to an administrative-manager title while reducing one funded position.

Committee members asked about notice volume, quadrennial revaluation impacts and whether more mailing could be avoided by opt-in digital alerts; Alex said the county has created a website alert sign-up and is taking incremental steps to modernize notices but statewide publication rules currently constrain options. The committee gave consensus to move Alex's budget forward and asked staff to provide details on the supplemental and next steps.