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County engineer to take over tax‑map drafting, vows GIS/AI overhaul to speed survey reviews

Trumbull County Board of Commissioners · January 6, 2026
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The county engineer asked commissioners to transfer tax‑map drafting from the auditor to his office, hire two drafting/GIS technicians, and deploy GIS and AI tools to cut survey review times from weeks to hours or minutes; commissioners pressed for details on staffing, benefits and IT costs.

The Trumbull County engineer told the commissioners Wednesday he is ready to move the county's tax‑map drafting function from the auditor to the engineer's office and to modernize the process with GIS and artificial‑intelligence tools.

David Christopher, county engineer, said state law assigns tax‑map responsibility to the county engineer and described a plan to hire two drafting technicians from the auditor's office while two other positions would remain with the auditor. Christopher said the change…

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