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County hears demo of Balcony Technologies land‑records portal; consideration postponed for statements of work and fees
Summary
Balcony Technologies demoed a consolidated land‑records and mineral‑rights mapping product for San Juan County. The vendor offered a no‑cost first year and a modest annual fee thereafter; commissioners requested a statement of work, fee schedule and county IT/recorder sign‑off before deciding.
Balcony Technologies representatives demonstrated Keystone, a cloud platform that maps and indexes county land records, mineral‑rights documents and water‑rights layers during the San Juan County Commission meeting May 19. The presentation showed a property profile, full deed/mortgage document access, a fuzzy search for misspellings, a chatbot for plain‑language queries and mineral and subsurface mapping.
"When you bring records together like that, that allows us to do a lot of really cool stuff," Jason, Balcony's vice president of strategic accounts, said during the demo. Austin and Alex of Balcony walked commissioners through parcel profiles, transaction history, zoning integrations and a mineral‑rights viewer that overlays claims and notices of location.
County staff briefed commissioners that the vendor would waive first‑year setup fees and offer an annual fee in the low thousands thereafter (staff said approximately $2,300/year after the first year). The vendor proposed a revenue‑sharing model so subscription or one‑time fees charged to title companies and landmen would offset county costs.
Recorders and planning staff asked for more formal documentation. The item did not come to a motion for award; commissioners asked staff to provide a statement of work, a preliminary fee schedule and sign‑off from county IT and the recorder before bringing the agreement back for formal consideration.
Next steps: staff will obtain the missing statement of work, a formal cost/fee schedule, a technology sign‑off from county IT/recorder, and return the item to the commission for action.
