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Council hears plan to clean up long-running property-assessment database; vendor work to be timed with next year’s reassessments

5063053 · June 23, 2025
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Summary

Staff told council the city’s parcel/neighborhood database has decades of legacy errors; a vendor under a license agreement would correct hundreds of records and help with next year’s reassessments so staff capacity isn’t stretched.

City staff told the Manassas City Council that updates to the city’s parcel and neighborhood database are necessary and that doing the work in-house would stretch the small assessor team during the regular reassessment cycle.

The city has used the current system for “22, 23 years,” staff said. Under a proposed arrangement the city would proceed under the vendor’s license agreement to pay an ongoing update fee and to have the vendor clean and standardize hundreds of…

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