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Assessor asks for multi-year funding to replace legacy assessment and records systems after clearing backlog

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee · June 14, 2018
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Summary

The Assessor-Recorder asked the Budget & Finance Committee to fund replacement of two aging systems and modest staffing increases after saying the office shrank a 3—/2-year backlog to about three months, helping generate a property-tax surplus.

Rachel Zuckerman, deputy director of finance and administration for the Assessor-Recorder ivision, told the Budget & Finance Committee the office is seeking funding to replace two mission-critical legacy IT systems and to add capacity in mapping and revenue discovery.

Zuckerman said the office has cut a historic processing backlog "from 3 and a half years to 3 months," and that getting assessments current has tangible revenue effects: she pointed to the nine-month report showing a roughly $94,000,000 surplus in property-tax receipts that the…

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