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Monroe County OKs higher-resolution EagleView imagery contract for reassessment work
Summary
The Monroe County Board of Commissioners approved a six-year EagleView master services agreement to upgrade county aerial imagery to 1-inch pixels, a contract the assessor’s office said will improve property review and public mapping.
Monroe County commissioners on Oct. 9 approved a six-year master services agreement with EagleView to provide higher-resolution aerial imagery for the county assessor’s GIS and reassessment work.
County staff said the contract — presented as a reassessment fund purchase totaling $450,000.06 spread over six years — will move the county’s base aerial imagery from coarser resolution to 1-inch pixels and begin flights next spring before trees leaf out.
Assessor’s office staff described EagleView as the “background” tool for parcel review, property valuation and many public-facing maps used by residents and county departments. The staff member said the county first began buying the imagery about 20 years ago at much lower resolution and that the upgrade will provide more-detailed overhead views to help staff and the public identify structures, outbuildings and changes to parcels.
“This is the background for everything that we do in my office and a lot of other offices,” the staff member said. “It goes into the GIS. We can completely go around a house and around the property and you can see so much.”
The presenter told commissioners the annual cost rose from roughly $63,519 in the previous contract to about $75,000 per year for the new 1-inch product; staff described the change as a modest increase for a substantial improvement in detail. The vendor will capture imagery in recurring flights (staff said the contract shows a third flight scheduled in 2030) and will house and maintain the data in intervening years even when flights are not conducted annually.
Staff emphasized the public access benefits: the county offers its map and imagery to residents for free, and the assessor said the dataset is widely used by members of the public and by other county offices. She also cautioned that county aerial maps are not legal surveys and that property lines shown in GIS are not a substitute for a boundary survey.
Commissioners voted 3-0 to approve the agreement; Commissioner Madera moved the measure and Commissioner Thomas seconded.
The contract is scheduled to begin vendor flights next spring. Staff said the new imagery will be added to the county’s GIS and available to the public at no charge once processed.
