3/19/1996 BOARD OF ASSESSORS Minutes

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y Board. of Assessors Meeting Page David Bailey ' s Upcoming AssessingDepartment Summary w�� ■I ll�r 1 ! ■ L ■ I P� (continued) developments that developers had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars preparing their own topo maps . Assessing would have had all this information they could have purchased it from us . David Bailey further informed Board Members that he feels placing information on the Internet is a big priority; he has already initiated this action he has a data base to a writer to create a data base that will be searchable on the Worldwide Web. He expressed 6pinion that the future of public service is going to be on the Internet. Be predicts that in five or sixyears there will be a computer in every household; it wall be ' hooked up to a telephone; people will be doing all their business over their computers. People who are not ready for this will be left in the dust! .' Short side discussions followed. Mr. Bailey explained that placing information on the Internet makes important data available to people who do not lure in Mashpee year round and who would otherwise not have ready access to it . He has spent a great deal of time researching this matter; he found a few tons that have placed thein information on the Internet . M . one in Florida it is good, clean, neat. Mr. Bailey would like to start placing the Commitment Book on the Internet in a searchable manner so that people can look up information by street, by reap and block, or by name . David Bailey further informed the Board that what he would eventually like to do is give people the capability of printing out a property record card from the computerized information . This would eliminate appraisers corning to the Assessing Department. Mr. Bailey feels that as Mashpee grows, this will be the way Assessing will grow dramatically. We have been able to sage positions by keeping up with technology so far; he feels that by continuing to keep abreast, the next wave of it will keep professionals out of this office. We spend a tremendous amount of time with real estate appraisers . The more the Town grows, the more people will come to this office unless the information can be accessed through their own cem utCers . Chairman DeLory initiated lengthy discussion concerning hiring appraisal companies every so often to perform state mandated functions that Assessing is capable of doing 0 4P and doing a better job. Mr , Bailey expressed agreement# he stated that this is why we have a Data Collector. The problem is that we have trouble keeping a Data Collector, so there is no consistency ! .'