The Town of Lakeville Board of Assessors discussed FY26 pricing for the Vision assessment system and its GIS module during the Oct. 23 meeting and asked staff to obtain a one‑time price to export full property record cards as PDFs for linking into the town’s AccessGIS system.

Board members and staff told the meeting that the Vision GIS module, which provides an online parcel‑card view, costs about $1,500 for the part of the product under discussion. The board also heard that the town’s broader annual costs for the Canvas subscription and cloud hosting associated with online assessment tools have increased in recent years to roughly $26,000 annually. Board members questioned whether the Vision module is duplicative because Cartographic Associates can link full, spooled PDFs of property record cards to AccessGIS.

The interim assessor from RRG said the office can periodically spool PDFs of full property record cards via a special application and provide those to Cartographic Associates, who would link the documents into the town’s GIS. Board members asked staff to obtain a firm price for that one‑time PDF export module and to vet any change with other departments to ensure no operational needs are missed. Several members described the $1,500 item as small relative to the town’s total annual software and hosting costs but still potentially duplicative.

No formal motion or vote was taken on the subscription question. The board directed staff to gather pricing details and to consult other town offices before deciding whether to continue the Vision GIS subscription component.

Context: AccessGIS is offered to the town by Cartographic Associates, which also handles annual map updates; Vision provides a separate set of parcel card tools. The board noted municipalities vary in how they publish parcel information publicly and that Lakeville currently maintains two versions of property record outputs: a truncated Vision card and a fuller town record card available at town hall or via AccessGIS once linked.

The board moved later in the meeting on other items (see separate article on the ASR study); the Vision subscription discussion concluded with staff tasked to return with pricing and departmental feedback.