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Bonner County GIS shifts review work, seeks Coeur d'Alene MLS data and budgets for software, vehicles
Summary
The county’s GIS presented budget edits that moved review fees to the assessor’s revaluation budget after staff changes, described large recurring contract costs (EagleView, Rock Cloud, MasterTouch), and said it anticipates an existing BOC-approved two‑year lease for eight vehicles.
Bonner County’s geographic information systems (GIS) unit told commissioners at a budget workshop that staff changes shifted about $12,500 in review-fee revenue into the assessor’s revaluation budget, and the department said it is pursuing an additional MLS data agreement with Coeur d’Alene to improve property-sales coverage.
The move matters because county property valuation and parcel review workloads rely on complete sales data and stable GIS licensing and imagery contracts, the department said. GIS staff said the current local MLS (Selkirk) captures substantially fewer Bonner County sales than Coeur d’Alene’s dataset.
The GIS presenter described a roughly $35,060 baseline for review-fee revenue and explained that…
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