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Committee renews assessing services contracts with several municipalities for three years
Summary
Ottawa County’s Finance and Administration Committee approved and forwarded three-year renewals of county assessing contracts for Crockery Township, Hudsonville, Blendon Township, Grand Haven and Coopersville; staff said local jurisdictions had already signed the contracts and praised county assessing staff.
The Finance and Administration Committee voted to approve and forward contracts renewing county-provided assessing services for five jurisdictions: Crockery Township, the city of Hudsonville, Blendon Township, the city of Grand Haven and the city of Coopersville. Each contract is a three-year renewal intended to align terms across jurisdictions.
Bridal (department staff) told the committee that the five jurisdictions had been contracted with the county through June 30 of the current year and that the new contracts renew service for an additional three-year period. Staff said the county bids the work at cost and attempts to determine costs to fulfill the contracts, which is how contract amounts were developed. Bridal said representatives from each local jurisdiction had voted to sign the renewals and had praised the county’s assessing division staff.
Why it matters: these contracts keep assessing functions (tax valuation, property assessment) consolidated under county staff for the named jurisdictions and lock in a three-year schedule intended to standardize contract expiration dates across multiple municipalities.
Committee members asked procedural questions and proceeded to record roll-call approvals for each jurisdiction in turn. Staff emphasized that the renewals had local approval at the municipal level and that the county’s assessing managers had earned positive feedback from the local boards.
Votes: The committee recorded roll-call approvals forwarding each assessing-services contract to the full Board of Commissioners.
Ending: Contracts will be forwarded to the Board of Commissioners for final approval; staff said they would continue to coordinate with the local jurisdictions on service delivery and contract administration.
