Wednesday, July 16. 2008

State of Nebraska Mandates County Assessor GIS

I didn't know that. Per Superior Express the state has mandated GIS for all county assessors. Nuckolls County, about which the article was written, just received two bids. It's not clear to me from the article if the mandate is direct or if it's because the NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service, formerly the Soil Conservation Service) no longer provides paper mapbooks, but only digital data and the Nebraska Property Assessment Division requires county assessors to use new soil codes in that digital data for assessment purposes by Jan. 1, 2009. In either case, its an interesting way to get GIS into those counties that don't yet have it.

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Sounds to me as if the ball starting rolling with the new soil code requirements for the assessors and not necessarily a mandate to adopt GIS. If the updated soil data is in digital format only, then assessors would be "required" to introduce GIS technologies. Interesting rationale for implementing a GIS, especially in what I imagine are some VERY rural counties in Nebraska. The $41K bid may be out of reach for many of them. Perhaps they share assessing services with larger counties?

#1 Matt on 2008-07-16 07:13 (Reply)

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