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Springfield subcommittee reviews OpenGov rollout as city moves to link fines to tax bills
Summary
At an Aug. 18 meeting, Springfield City officials reported that the OpenGov software is live and being used to process permits and import code-enforcement and police ordinance tickets; staff said the city will begin reviewing old tickets for possible municipal liens and may start adding them to property tax bills as early as October.
Springfield City’s General Government Subcommittee on Aug. 18 reviewed a 30-day check-in on the city’s new OpenGov software and discussed using the system to import outstanding fines and, where appropriate, place municipal liens on properties so those amounts appear on property tax bills.
The rollout is already processing online permit applications and payments, subcommittee members were told. “OpenGov went live,” said treasury staff member Kathy during the meeting; staff also reported that police and code‑enforcement ordinance tickets are being entered into the system.
Why it matters: bringing ordinance fines and older enforcement tickets into a single, searchable system will let the collector/treasurer’s office and other departments identify unpaid fines more efficiently and — in some cases — place municipal liens that are collected through property tax bills.…
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