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Beaver County staff warn tax-bill mailings may be delayed as new assessment roll migration creates data errors
Summary
County staff told commissioners that migrating the 2025 assessment roll from Tyler to RBA produced pipe‑delimited data errors and unexpected 'key parcel' fields, likely delaying printing and mailing of ~90,000 tax bills; commissioners raised the possibility of half‑million‑dollar revenue impacts from appeals and agreed to seek more analysis before changing millage.
Beaver County officials told commissioners on Dec. 18 that a software migration of the 2025 assessment roll may delay mailing tax bills and could complicate the county’s revenue picture for 2025.
The county’s staffer handling tax mailings said the assessment office delivered the 2025 tax roll in a DAT, pipe‑delimited file for transfer from Tyler to RBA. “When you put a backsplash in a pipe delineated field, it causes that file to go crazy,” the staffer said, adding that newly introduced “key parcels” and unexpected characters mean the automated printing process cannot run reliably for roughly 90,000 parcels and some data may require manual review.
“That’s gonna be delayed,” the staffer…
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