Assessing Program Update Log
· Red text represents any change to the system that affects values or calculations including PRE.
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Blue text represents
any new feature/Info added to the system.
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Black text represents
general bug fixes to the system/
General
changes (not including value/pre changes).
Date of
Change Change
Details
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CHANGES
TO THE ASSESSING APP AFTER THE 2003 STC COST TABLES UPDATE
12/07/11 There was an issue with the Permit Import
and using the OR option to import Issued OR Finaled Permits. The system was not
importing all of the Finaled Permits in some cases. Latest update fixes that
issue.
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12/02/11 The up to date 2012 Personal Property
Statement and Personal Property Statement (Page 1) in the Pervasive Assessing
Application have been updated.
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11/29/11 In the Sales Search Analysis portion of the
application specifically the ESTIMATE VALUE area the FLOOR AREA was not
printing for the Comparable parcels. Latest version has the issue fixed.
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10/27/11 Due to the bulletin for PA 340 Sale (Habitat
for Humanity)there have been some changes to the Assessing system to handle
these sales. You will still add the sale to the appropriate parcel and place
100% in the % Transferred and flag the option under the Other Parcels in Sale
as PA 340.
Next go into the Current Year Detail screen and place a
check in the Override Assessed Value cell and half the amount of the Sale Price
in the Value cell. Finally be sure to toggle the new cell Remove Overrides at
Next Rollover cell.
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10/11/11 There was a bug when trying to run a report
or printout for Personal Property parcels. If the parcel was not assigned to an
ECF or a Land Table the system would give the user an error saying that the ECF
or LAND TABLE could not be found. Latest version corrects this issue.
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10/06/11 There was a small change to a text field
within the Tax Billing Screen. The text was changed include Water Exemptions.
This is purely an informational cell but now id used to identify both Air and
Water Pollution Exemptions being filed.
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09/08/11 In the
Commercial/Industrial Building section there was a correction to Banks-Branch
occupancy type for C/D/S Classed buildings.
Previously for the Basement section there were no rates for the STORAGE BASEMENT option.
Going forward any database from the year 2012 and beyond those rates are now in
the system.
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07/25/11 There was a bug in the ASCII EXPORT for the
Sales file. If a Sale had another parcel in sale specified the system was not
exporting the correct sale information for the sale after that sale. Latest
update fixes this issue.
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07/13/11 There has been
some MTT forms added to the program. All four Stipulation Forms (Property
Assessment,
MCL 211.53a,
PRE, Special Assessment). Also a pretty generic MTT Answer Form that can be
used to add
a new form
based on this one and customized to your needs.
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06/29/11
A new Tax Billing Classification was
added to the Tax Billing Screen called 'RZ-Rehab
AdVal (frozen).
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06/16/11 There was a bug in when trying to run a
GENERIC DATA EXPORT. It caused the system to lock up. Latest update fixes this
issue.
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05/06/11 The Industrial Real and Personal Property
reports have been updated to the 4-11 version.
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05/02/11 Per the STC letter dated April 25th
of 2011 regarding reporting of Industrial Real/Personal property we have
slightly changed the Industrial Real
Property Report. Previously in this report under the heading Describe Type Of
Business the system pulled the Occupancy of the Commercial/Industrial Building
on the parcel. The STC has asked that the report pull from the Desc. Of
Building/Section cell of the Commercial/Industrial Building section of the
program. Latest update has this change.
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04/19/11 This update
contains the appropriate changes to make the system compatible with the latest
version of the Apex sketching software (Apex Sketch v5 Pro-Assessor.) After
updating in Program Management/Accessory Programs/Select Sketch System Options
there is a new option for the Apex Sketch v5 Pro.
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04/18/11 There was a
calculation bug in the reporting in the change made on 4/13/2010. The change
for the Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT properties and how they are reported on the
L-4025 was supposed to only effect the L-4025/L-4028 and L-4034 reports and it
was effecting all reports in the system. Latest update corrects this issue.
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04/13/11 Those parcels
flagged in the Tax Billing Screen as Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT
2008/2009/2010/2011 were incorrectly reporting Taxable Value on the L-4025
report. The Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT 2011 option should have reported on the
L-4025 report by reporting the prior year value but not the Current year
Taxable. The other Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT 2008/2009/2010 options should not
have reported at all on the L-4025 report. Latest version corrects how the Sr
Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-PILT 2008/2009/2010/2011 report on the L-4025 Report.
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04/13/11 In the
Commercial/Industrial Building section of the system for the Calculator
Occupancy Type of Motel – Extended Stay the system was not calculating the
Perimeter Multiplier correctly. Due to the time of year this correction has
been made but will only take effect in a rolled over 2012 database.
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03/01/11 In the reporting if
a user selected the Special population of REN. ZONE (AD-VALOREM) the system was
not reporting the Current Values. It was reporting the PRIOR values then no
current values for those parcels. If the Special Population was AD-VALOREM the
system was correctly reporting the REN ZONE PARCELS. Latest version corrects
this so that the Special Population of REN. ZONE (AD-VALOREM) reports
correctly.
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1/28/11 The new L-4037 report was not displaying
the new Certification level changes correctly (MCAO/MAAO/MMAO) latest version
corrects this on that form.
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01/18/11 Made a change to the system how it
handles/reports DDA parcels that are partially in a district. Previously the
system would apply the % in District to the Taxable value and the BASE VALUE
and report it that way. So if a parcel had a Taxable value of 100,000 and a
base value of 10,000 and the % in district was 25% the system would report the
Taxable as 25,000 and the base value as 2,500. Now the % in District only gets
applied to the Capture amount.
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01/13/11 The Assessment Change Notice has been
revised to the latest STC version (1-11)
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12/14/10 There was a bug in
the Pervasive program for version dates 11-29 thru 10-07 that would cause land
values to drastically increase IF there was a re-index run on the
EQ.PARCEL.DAT. If you are on one of those version dates it is recommended you
update to the latest version so you will not run into this problem.
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1/29/10 Per the STC…. “It has been brought to the
attention of the State Tax Commission that the 2011 Personal Property
Statement, Form L-4175 (Treasury Form 632), as previously posted on the
Michigan Department of Treasury website, contains a typographical error.
The 2009 original cost valuation multiplier shown in Section D, on Page 2 of
the Statement, should be .64, but is mistakenly shown as .65. The
Commission did not intend to change this multiplier from the multiplier which
was recommended in previous assessment years.
Assessor's and Equalization Director's are asked to
notify their form providers of the error and to request a correction before
printing. It is not necessary to reprint forms that have already been
completed, but those processing personal property statements are asked to adopt
the correct multiplier when processing Personal Property Statements using the
State Tax Commission recommended valuation procedures.”
As of the 11/29/2010 version the corrected form is
available in the Assessing Application.
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11/24/10 Omitted Property Report was added to the
printouts in the pervasive program.
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11/18/10 3 New options have been added to the Tax
Billing Section of the program. These options are for the Senior Citizen Disabled
Housing. Sr Ctzn/Dis Fam Hsg-Pilt 2009 thru 2011 Rates. For Assessing purposes
these options will all work/report the same but in Tax this allows the Tax
system to apply the correct Millage Rates for each option.
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11/17/10 Per user request the General Comments button
was removed from the screen when in Public Viewing Mode.
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11/11/10 The latest version of the State Tax
Commission Personal Property Form (L-4175) has been updated and placed in the
application.
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11/11/10 The latest depreciation tables from the STC
for 2011 for Free Standing Communication Towers have been updated in the
system.
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11/09/10 There was a bug when saving the results of
the L-4015A report to the L-4018 report options in Program Management. Latest
version has the fix.
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10/21/10 Within the Tax Billing screen there has been
a slight change to the name of one of the Categories. CFT REHAB is now named CFT REHAB PA 210 of 2005.
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10/12/10 There
was a recent bug where if the user was trying to set or take off the USE
NETWORK DIRECTORY option it would crash the system. Latest version has the fix.
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10/08/10 There were a couple of changes to the export
that was recently added to the system for the Assessing Officer Report
(Industrial Facilities Tax Roll)that is due on October 15th each
year. The file name/format needed to be changed to allow the file to be
uploaded to the STC website.
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09/29/10 There were a couple of
changes to the newly added IFT EXPORT for the Assessing Officer Report
(Industrial Facilities Tax Roll) that is due on October 15th each
year. Under File/Export Data/IFT EXPORT TO STC. The system now will only allow
the Export to be run from a rolled over database. The export will export and
report the PRIOR year final values.
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09/24/10 A new
Special Act Classification was added to the list within the Tax Billing portion
of the Assessing application. This is to address PA227 of 2008.
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09/08/10 There was some dates on the L-4015 that were
incorrect by the totals. The sales were all in the correct time frames but the dates
for the totals were incorrect. This is now fixed.
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09/07/10 Added the ability to set the MTT PENDING
information in mass through the Set Database fields tool.
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08/19/10 Parcels that were
flagged as OPRA-FROZEN in the Tax Billing screen were not correctly freezing
the CURRENT YEAR TAXABLE value. Latest version corrects this issue. This
calculation change will only affect 2011 databases and beyond.
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08/06/10 A new export has been added to the system
for the Assessing Officer Report (Industrial Facilities Tax Roll) that is due
on October 15th each year. Under File/Export Data/IFT EXPORT TO STC.
Once the Export has been run the user will receive the prompt below.
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07/29/10 Form 2793 was added to replace forms L-4017
and the L-4047.
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07/27/10 A display was changed for those personal property
parcels that are assigned to the Tax Billing Info Classification of Sr.
Citizen/Disabled Fam Hsg-PILT. In the PRE screen these parcels assigned to this
Tax Billing info Classification will still get the PRE applied but the Ql
Ag/Frst/MBT cell will be cleared out instead of being set to MBT Commercial or
MBT Industrial.
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07/13/10 There was a display bug on the July 12th
2010 version. There were a couple list fields that were getting cut off and no
longer displaying properly. The Permit Category lists and DDA lists for example
were affected. Installing the latest version will correct this display issue.
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07/01/10 A new L-4035A report specifically for those
Prior Year ADJUSTMENTS was created and added to the system. In the Prior year
DETAL adjustment button under the PRINT button the user now has the ability to
print an L-4035A for thae Taxable value change.
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07/01/10 There were 2 new Special Population Options
added to the Assessing system for Reports/Printouts and In the ASCII Export
section of the Program. The new options are for the Senior Citizen/Disabled
Family Housing (211.7d) properties. These options will allow the user to
exclude those properties from the Ad-Valorem totals or only include just those
properties.
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06/25/10 A new field was added to the Tax Billing
Screen of the Assessing system to handle those Land Bank Classifications that
are expiring. There is now a PREVIOUS Classification field that gets populated
during the rollover process from the Classification that was set in the prior
database. This field is in the ASCII Export as well so the Tax system gets
populated properly with what the Classification was prior to the rollover.
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06/25/10 A change was made to the system in the Tax
Billing Screen. If a user has something in the option LAND BANK OPTIONS cell
the MAKE AD-VALOREM toggle will not be able to be toggled on.
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05/19/10 There was a change
to the L-4028 report. In some rare cases with parcels being zeroed out at the
MBOR it was causing the L-4028 report to NOT balance with the L-4025 report.
Latest version has this correction.
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05/12/10 The STC 2010 Industrial Real and Personal
Property Reports have been updated to reflect the latest changes from the State
Tax Commission. The original change to these report on May 3rd was
pulling the Current Taxable on the Real Report and Previous on the Personal
Report. Both reports have been updated and now pull the Current Taxable so they
are designed to be run from the 2010 database.
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04/29/10 There were still a
couple of calculation problems with the L-4028 report to allow for the Base
Rate Tax Fraction (BTRF) for Truth in Taxation to exceed 1.0000. The system was
also incorrectly allowing the MRF and truth in Assessing and Truth in
Equalization calculation to exceed 1.0000 and that was incorrect. Latest update
corrects this issue so now the only the BTRF can exceed 1.0000.
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04/20/10 A calculation change
was made to the L-4028 report to allow for the Base Rate Tax Fraction (BTRF)
for Truth in Taxation to exceed 1.0000.
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04/15/10 A change was made to the Index PREVIOUS
CLASS and how the index works for a database with multiple Gov Units
(specifically County databases.) Previously if a user indexed on the Previous
Class the system would index by previous class for each Gov Unit. The system
now simply indexes by Previous Class only regardless of the Gov Unit. In order
for this index to work properly the user is going to have to re-index the
Eqparcel.Dat file after this update.
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04/19/10 The 04/15/2010
version of the Assessing system had a calculation bug in it that affected the
commercial buildings. The system was incorrectly pulling the INDUSTRIAL ECF
instead of the Commercial ECF that was setup. The 04/19/2010 version has the
fix for this issue.
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04/12/10 In the Misc/Stats report in the
CFT/IFT/Rehab totals section the system was not including the Opra Frozen .5
Rate and the Opra Rehab .5 Rate. Any parcels in these classifications will now
be included in the Frozen/Rehab section. NEZ .625/.75.825 were also not being
included in this section of the Misc/Stats report. These classifications will
now be included in the NEZ section totals of the report.
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03/18/10 There was a bug with section H (Assessable
Tooling) that was doubling the value. This has been fixed.
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03/10/10 A display issue was found on the valuation
statement for personal property where Total Cost new for the statement
including twice the Section G Total Cost. This again, was a display issue and
had no effect on
the assessed and capped
value calculations.
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02/25/10 If a user was trying to QUERY on the field
Par_TaxInfoCFTIFT the Sr. Citizen/Disabled Fam Hsg - PILT field was not listed.
Latest version has this corrected.
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02/18/10 There was an issue with printing Change
Notices and the Report Option Exclude Exempt parcels. If the user toggled this
option those parcels were still being printed if the PRINT option was set to
ALL PARCELS. Latest update has the fix.
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02/11/10 There was a fix to the Possible Calc Problem
report where the report wasn’t correctly pulling in those parcels that had a
DNR-PILT classification in one database but not the other.
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02/10/10 There was a change
to how the system handles the Tax Billing Classification for REHAB AD-VALOREM
RATES (FROZEN). On 02/03/10 there were several FROZEN classifications in Tax
Billing that were changed. The REHAB AD-VALOREM (FROZEN)works similar to how
the new Classification for Senior Citizen/Disabled Fam Hsg-Pilt. Any parcel in
the classification will allow an Assessed value to be lower than the Frozen
Taxable value for 2010 and beyond.
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02/03/10 Due to the recent
Memo Regarding Senior Citizen & Disabled Housing Properties dated February
3rd, 2010 any parcel identified in the Tax Billing Section of the
system as a Senior Citizen/Disabled Fam Hsg-Pilt will by default have a 100%
PRE applied to the parcel.
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02/03/10 There was a calculation
change made to how the system handles NEZ FROZEN classifications. The change
works similar to how the new Classification for Senior Citizen/Disabled Fam
Hsg-Pilt. Any parcel in the classifications listed below will allow an Assessed
value to be lower than the Frozen Taxable value for a parcel.
NEZ REHAB, RZ-REHAB
NEZ, RZ-REHAB NEZ 25%, RZ-REHAB NEZ 50%, RZ-REHAB NEZ 75%, CFT-Rehab-PA 210 of
2005,
RZ-Rehab IFT within
Ren Zone, RZ-25%Rehab IFT, RZ-50%Rehab IFT, RZ-25%Rehab IFT, IFT Rehab.
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01/22/10 There was a bug in the SET Data Fields Tool
when LISTED on the SALE file. If the Index was on the same field the user was
trying to set and the population was BLOCK the set field was setting fields on
parcels NOT in that block.
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01/22/10 “Has Section L info on Statement” was added
to the page three items within the Personal Property section.
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01/20/10 There was an error on the STC Assessment
Change Notice (L-4400) that the inflation rate multiplier was 0.0997 and should
have been 0.997. They made the change and we also updated our Assessment Change
Notice’s.
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01/19/10 Added the Property City to the PERSONAL PROPERTY
FILE LAYOUTS FOR EXPORTED DATA.
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01/15/10 The Assessment Change Notices were updated to reflect the STC
version (1-10).
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01/04/10 Just a reminder to users that the Consumer
Price Index (CPI) for use in the 2010 Assessment Roll is .997. This needs to be
entered into the Program Management Screen/Governmental Unit Options/Global
Calculation Options as a -.30 in the C.P.I. % cell. If entered correctly it
will display as a –0.30. If the C.P.I. is not entered correctly an error will
display on the Possible Calc Problem report.
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01/04/10 There were several Tax Billing Classifications that were not
correctly freezing the Taxable value. A
change was made to the system for the
following Classifications under Tax Billing so that the 2010 Taxable value is
FROZEN at the prior 2009 Taxable value (RZ-OPRA Frozen, RZ OPRA FROZEN ½ RATE,
RZ-REHAB NEZ, RZ-REHAB NEZ 25%, RZ-REHAB NEZ 50% and RZ-REHAB NEZ 75%.)
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12/14/09 For 2010 databases
and beyond we made a change to the “lookup” for the County Multipliers for Log Homes.
Prior to this change the system was using the Residential Brick County
Multiplier instead of the Residential Frame. This may cause some pricing
changes as a few buildings will get a different county multiplier.
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12/08/09 There have been
some new Tax Billing Info Classifications added to the system. "RZ - OPRA Rehab",
"RZ - OPRA Frozen 1/2
rate", and "Sr. Citizen/Disabled Fam Hsg - PILT" (Bulletin 16 of
2009.)
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11/18/09 The PP Stmt has
been updated to the latest version from the STC.
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11/14/09 There has been a
new option added to the PRE section to identify the Supportive
Housing Exemption.
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11/04/09 The Personal
property STC multipliers for communication towers have been updated to the
latest tables from the
STC.
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10/29/09 There was a fix
to the Owner Name Address section of the program specifically with entering OUT
OF COUNTRY
address
information. If the user entered 6 XXXXXX in the field instead of the 5 XXXXX
or the 5 plus 4 format
XXXXX-XXXX the
Out of Country address information entered was not pulling into reports/printouts
correctly.
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10/08/09 At the STC’s request there have been some display changes to the
L-4017 report when there are not sufficient sales for a particular time period
of the study.
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10/01/09 There were a couple of issues with the CONDITIONAL PRE
calculations. The first was those Conditional PRE’s were not getting removed
properly after the database was rolled over. The second issue was the new PRE
entries for 2010 were not going into the system correctly. After entering a new
2010 Conditional PRE the system was showing a 0 for the current PRE.
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08/25/09 There was a bug in the QUICK BLOCK option when listed on the SALE
file for certain Indexes. The system was not setting the block properly for the
Quick Block. Latest version has the fix.
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08/20/09 There was a calculation bug with the
L-4017 report. The report was not using the correct time periods/ratios. Latest
update has the fix.
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08/14/09 There was a bug in the dates that were displaying on the L-4015
report in the Sales Report. Latest update corrects this issue.
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08/14/09 There was a display Bug when indexed on the Land/ECF table when
the database was setup to use the LAND/ECF Tables databases wide (County
Databases.)The index was not displaying the correct description for the Land/ECF
Table. Latest update corrects this display issue.
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07/24/09 There was a reporting issue for those
parcels that were flagged in the Tax Billing section of the Program as Loss to
Ad-Valorem New to Special. The system was reporting the Prior Value as
Ad-Valorem and showing a Loss on the Ad-Valorem roll but was not including the
current value and as New on the Special Act totals. Latest version corrects
this issue but only for 2010 database and beyond.
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07/23/09 Forms L-4017 and L-4047 have been updated to meet the current
versions shown on the STC website.
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07/21/09 There was abug in the ASCII Import where
the system was importing the TRANSFERS from the Values file even though that
option was not toggled. This issue only happened when the user was importing
PREVIOUS/ADJUSTMENT values.
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07/20/09 There were several updates to the L-4015/L-4017/L-4047 reports to
reflect the STC changes per the Memo dated 06/04/09 (Revised EQ Study Periods.)
06/26/09 Form 2167 has been updated to the 02-09 version.
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06/19/09 A calculation change has been made to the
Assessing system that will effect how the system applies the MBT to IFT-REHAB
parcels. Any parcel that is in that classification within the TAX BILLING
screen will NOT have the MBT exemption applied. This includes the following Classifications:
IFT REHAB, RZ – REHABIFT within RenZone, RZ-25% RehabIFT, RZ-50% RehabIFT,
RZ-75% RehabIFT.
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05/29/09 A new CLASS TYPE has been added to the
Assessing system. The class type is REF PERMANENT. This class type will behave
exactly like the Ref Real/BLL class however any parcel in this class type will
NOT be INACTIVATED during a rollover if the user has that option selected in
the roll-over options to MAKE REFERENCE PARCELS INACTIVATE.
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05/29/09 A change has been made to Industrial
Personal/Special Personal Class types that are in a classification in the Tax
Billing screen of IFT REHAB. For 2010 databases going forward these parcels
will NOT get the MBT exmption. The system by default when this classification
is selected and the parcel is in a Industrial Personal/Special Personal class
type will NOT allow an MBT on that parcel. (Public Act 39 of 2007.)
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05/13/09 A change has been made to the application
for certain parcels and the MBT calculations. For any parcel that has a
classification in the TAX BILLING screen of Industrial Personal on a Commercial
Class the system now gives the user the option to remove the MBT in the PRE
section of the system. If that classification is selected the user now has the
option to clear out the MBT flag and % on those parcels only. All other parcels
classified as Commercial Personal/Industrial Personal or Special Personal will automatically
receive the MBT exemption.
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04/30/09 revised the L-4260 (Property Transfer Affidavit) to the 1-09
version.
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04/28/09 The PRE Affidavit was updated to the 04-09 version that the STC
has put out.
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04/24/09 There was a bug in the Assessing app for any of the Previous
Years DETAIL screens and entering an ADJUSTMENT in the system. There were
several fields that were not accessible to the user such as the
DATE/PETITION/DOCKET#/RSN FOR CHANGE/ASSESSED/SEV/CAPPED and so on. Latest
update corrects this issue.
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04/24/09 We added the report Industrial Real Property to the assessing
reports. This report is being asked for by the STC on the April 24th
memo.
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04/23/09 The index option of UNIT/CLASS was not working properly. The
index was not displaying the UNIT in the Index.
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04/20/09 There was a display bug in the program for Agriculture
occupancies. It displayed odd characters at the bottom of the occupancy list
for the last 5 or so choices. Latest version addresses this issue.
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04/14/09 There was a bug in the program for
calculating all residential rates. This was ONLY if you have a version date of
04-13-09 or 04-14-09. It is easily recognizable looking at the plumbing rates.
They will have large negative values.
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04/01/09 Industrial Personal Property report change the
Mm1_databasedescription field to Mm1_YourUnitName.
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04/01/09 TX-SEV report added the Governmental unit to it.
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03/23/09 There was a bug in the MODIFY PARCEL NUMBERS utility under
File/Utilities/Modify Parcel Numbers when the database was setup with
Attachments and or Sketch JPG files. The Utility was not correctly modifying
those Attachment files or Sketch JPG files. Latest version addresses this
issue.
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03/19/09 There was an update to the report listed below (TV-SEV Report) on
one of the calc fields for “% of parcels where TV=SEV”. This was fixed in the
update.
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03/18/09 The report listed below (TV-SEV Report) has had some more
information added as per STC. An update to this date will have these changes
included.
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03/09/09 There has been a report added to the
assessing reports called “TV-SEV Report”. This report was created in regards to
information the STC will be asking from Equalization Directors in the future.
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03/09/09 There has been a report added to the
assessing reports called “Industrial Personal Property”. This report was
created in regards to the STC letter sent out Feb 13th to report all
Industrial Personal Property. This is to be run after the MBOR is completed and
sent to STC.
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02/25/09 A new report was added to the system under REPORTS/ASSESSING
REPORTS/ACREAGE REPORT. We had several requests to add a report that listed the
parcels and included the acreage as well as a total at the end of the report.
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02/19/09 There was a bug on L-4034 (Unit + Village) the system was not
combining the Village totals to the Township totals. It was only reporting the
Township toals on the form. Latest update corrects this issue.
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02/13/09 In the possible calc Problem Report the option NO LAND VALUE in
the Calc Problems to Look For was including REFERENCE parcels. Latest version
excludes the REFERENCE CLASS TYPE from the report.
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01/26/09 There was a bug in the Printout Change Notice (Self Mailer) form.
For those parcels that had the 100% exemption the form was always placing that
% in the % Exempt as Principal Residence Exemption cell regardless if the
exemption was due to Qualified Ag/Qualified Forest/MBT Industrial/MBT
Commercial. Latest version places the % exempt into the appropriate cells
instead of always placing it in the % Exempt as Principal Residence Exemption.
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01/23/09 A new feature was added to identify those Personal Property
statements that have been filed in the current year. The system has always
displayed NO FILE above
the Current year Detail for those Statements with a STATUS of Statement Not
Received. The system will now Display FILED for a status of Statement Received, Estimated
for a Status of Statement Estimated, Filed Late for a Status of Statement
Received Late, Changed By Aud for a Status of Stmnt Changed by Audit, E-Filed for a Status of Statement E Filed and E-Filed Revwd for a Status of Efiled PPS
Reviewed.
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01/23/09 There was a bug in the Land portion of the program specifically
the NET ACRES FOR ANALYSIS. If a user had entered an acreage in the NET ACRES
FOR ANALYSIS that was different than the Total ACREAGE entered in the system
the program was not holding that acreage. The system was setting the NET ACRES
FOR ANALYSIS back to the TOTAL ACREAGE entered. Latest version corrects this
issue.
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01/22/09 A change was made to the Assessing Report/Un-Reported Move-ins
List. The report will report any un-reported Move-ins for those current year
statements that have the Status set to Statement Received, Statement Received
Late and E-Filed PPS Reviewed. Current year statements that have the Status set
to any of the other options will be excluded from this report. Previously this
report included all status types on the report.
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01/22/09 The latest changes from the STC have been made to the Change
Notice (Laser), Change Notice (Change in Taxes), and the Change Notice
(Leasehold). *Reminder that those municipalities that do not use our canned
Change Notices listed above because they create their own will have to edit
those notices or create new ones based off of our canned notices.
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01/21/09 Yesterdays version of the system with the
changes to the Personal Property calcs on statements that were estimated had
several calculation problems. The system was not calculating an Assessed value
on any 2009 Personal Property statements. The 01/21/2009 version addresses all
of these issues.
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01/20/09 After some discussion on how the system calculated Personal Property
statements that the STATUS was set to STATEMENT ESTIMATED in the Current or
Preceeding year we have made some changes to the calculations of
NEW/ADDITIONS/LOSS/LOSSES. Previously the system would infer “Move Ins” and
Move Outs by comparing the current 2009 statement that had the Status set to
Statement Estimated to the prior year statement. STC rules state "In instances
where the assessment was estimated in the preceeding year, in the current year,
or in both years, ALL net changes are deemed to be either Headlee adds/losses
and Equalization New or Loss." (page 13 of equalization handbook.)
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01/19/09 There was a bug in the COPY User Security function of the system
when adding a new database. The system prompts the user if they would like to
Copy the User Security settings from another database. The copy was not
correctly copying the security settings to the new database. Latest version has
the fix.
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01/14/09 Previously, when user security restricted a user from accessing the
Audit List, the user was able to view a parcel’s individual audit list. This
has been fixed.
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01/12/09 There was a bug in the Assessing app for
OPRA REHAB parcels. If the user had the parcel assigned to OPRA REHAB in Tax
Billing screen and they also had an amount entered in the OPRA FROZEN $ cell
the system was incorrectly deducting that frozen amount entered from the
current Cap/Taxable Value and it should have only deducted the OPRA FROZEN $
from the current ASSESSED VALUE.
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12/30/08 A bug existed on parcels going to exempt.
If, an exempt parcel had a taxable/sev ratio and the 2003 cost tables with 2008
corrections are used, the system would apply the ratio to the losses. This
resulted in incorrect reporting of losses on reports. This has been fixed.
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12/30/08 A calculation change was made to the
L-4023 report and also Program Management for entering Equalization Factors
into the system. Per the STC the L-4023 computed factor should only be carried
out to 5 decimal places and always round up the last digit. This change has
been made to that report and also in Program Management/Equalization/Sale
Report setup/Equalization Factors Current and Previous Years only allows for
entry of 5 decimal places.
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12/19/08 DNR Property, Bulletin 15 of 2005 states
that DNR PILT properties are to have the lesser of 5% or CPI (4.4%) added to
the taxable value for the 2009 assessment roll. The program will automatically
do this for parcels labeled as DNR PILT.
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12/08/08 The “PP Stmt w/instructions” has been updated to include the latest
STC changes.
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12/02/08 The amount of Instruments of Sale entries has been expanded from
10 to 20.
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11/24/08 The November 20th change to the Assessing system
caused a problem importing/exporting data from the Assessing system. The import
would give several error messages including the error below. Latest update
fixes the bug Importing data.
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11/20/08 A new option was added to the Tax Billing
screen in the Assessing System. The new field is called Conservation District. This is the first
time that the State of Michigan has legislation that states CFR
parcels that have a conservation easement now use a different rate they
are charged $1.05 an acre not $1.20. This information is part of the ASCII
export so that the Tax system can bill these accordingly.
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11/12/08 A change was made to the Value Change Report so that for those
parcels that have multiple Adjustments on them each adjustments Reason For
Change will display on the report. Previously only the final adjustments Reason
For Change would display.
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11/12/08 A new special population was added to the Assessing system of
Ad-Valorem/No Brownfield.
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11/12/08 The latest Personal Property Statement from the STC (Rev. 10/08)
has been updated in the system.
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11/11/08 There was a bug in the late October early November version of the
system that in certain databases when running the L-4015 report and then saving
those totals to the Gov Unit to the L-4017/L-4047 the totals from the L-4015
were not saving to those 2 reports. Latest version fixes this issue.
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10/30/08 A
new Report was added under Assessing Reports called DDA/LDFA (Current Year)
which will list on a parcel by parcel basis the DDA/LDFA info such as base
value/captured value and Current Year values. The report previously called DDA
REPORT was changed to DDA/LDFA (Prior Year). This report is the same report but
it will pull PRIOR years values.
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10/29/08 There
was a bug in the Set Database field Tool when setting the Comments for larger
groups of parcels. The tool was placing several spaces between the new comment
and any existing comments. This only showed up when setting larger groups of
parcels because the problem got progressively worse for each parcel it was
setting the tool was adding an additional space.
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10/29/08 The cost valuation multipliers for use in making 2009
assessments of freestanding communication towers has been updated.
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10/23/08 There
was a display bug in the Assessing system for the L-4017 and L-4047 reports. If
the user happened to be sitting on an INACTIVE parcel in the Parcel List screen
and then went into Program Management to run the L-4017 or L-4047 report the
system would only bring up a blank page. This would only happen again if the
parcel the user was sitting on was an INACTIVE parcel. Latest update fixes this
issue.
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10/22/08 In
the Split/Combine Tool the system was not allocating the Values to the Child
Parcel when the Parent parcel had the same Current and Previous Assessed
values. The system would perform the split and create the Child parcels but was
not allocating the values to the child parcels. Latest update corrects this
issue.
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10/16/08 Latest version of the program has a new
field for the Report Writer in the res. Buildings file,
"Res_CostNew". It is the total cost new times county multiplier but before depreciation.
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10/08/08 There was a pricing bug that was introduced into the system
for a few days that caused a negative rate/value for parcels that had a Built
in Garage priced out in the system. Latest update fixes this issue.
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09/30/08 The ECF (Neighborhood) field was added to the spreadsheet in
the Analyze with Spreadsheet for the Land and Sales Analysis. Adding this field
to that spreadsheet allows the user to sort on the ECF field in the Sales
Analysis when doing a Land or Sales analysis.
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09/29/08 When
running a report with the SPECIAL POPULATION set to CHOOSE UNITS and selecting
a UNIT and a SCHOOL DISTRICT the system was not correctly filtering out the
School District selected. Latest update corrects that issue.
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09/23/08 Two new options were added to the CHOOSE REPORT OPTIONS
within the QUESTIONABLE PRE REPORT. EXCLUDE QUALIFIED AG PROPERTIES and EXCLUDE
PROPERTIESWITH ADJACENT EXEMPTIONS TURNED ON. Previously when running the
report the Qualified Ag and Adjacent Exemption parcels were automatically
excluded from the report. These options now allow the user the option of
excluding them from the report.
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09/18/08 There was a calculation bug in the Commercial Building
section for the occupancy RESIDENTIAL GARAGES. If a user had entered an
adjustment to the Base Rate $/Sq.Ft. Adj. The system was not adjusting the base
rate for that occupancy. If no adjustment to the base rate was entered the rate
was correct. The correction is in the latest update but only takes affect for
2009 databases and beyond and if the STC Cost Manual is set to 2003 w/2008
Corrections.
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09/15/08 Form 4660 (PRE Active Duty Military Affidavit) has been
added to the Assessing system. The new form can be found under Print/PRE
Affidavit (Military). In the PRE screen a new option was added in the
QlAg/Frst/MBT option of Military.
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09/10/08 Personal Property form 4452 has been updated to include the
multiplier changes that STC made last winter. This will affect 2009 personal
property returns going forward.
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09/10/08 There
was a few minor changes to the Standard ASCII Export file structure in the
Assessing app. A couple of new fields were added to the Export. The Appeal
types for MBOR/Adjustments were added to the file. With the latest update and having
the CHANGE/BOR REASONS CODE toggled in the Choose Fields to import this will
also import any Appeal Types that were entered in the MBOR/ADJUSTMENT cells.
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09/05/08 A new cell was added to the Tax Billing
Screen called OPRA Frozen $. This works with the OPRA Frozen & OPRA Rehab
classifications only.
For a Frozen-OPRA, if a
user chooses, he will enter in the OPRA frozen taxable value, this will
basically "override" the taxable to the amount that is entered. If
the user doesn't enter anything, the system will automatically check for
zero value in this cell and use the existing frozen taxable value.
For a rehab class, the user will
enter the frozen portion of the OPRA and the system will simply
calculate the rehabbed taxable value based on the taxable value of the
improvement minus the Frozen amount entered in Tax Billing (no land or pp
values should be on this parcel since they are assessed on the ad-valorem
roll).
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09/05/08 The area multiplier for Garage, Service Station, Food Booth
occupancy was incorrectly being applied. This has been fixed. This correction
will be for 2009 databases and beyond and using the 2003 w/2008 corrections
cost manual.
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08/22/08 A
display change was made to the Assessing system so that a parcel that is in a
CFR/CFA property Class type
it does not display in the current year detail an Assessed or Taxable
value. By default these values do not get reported on any reports in the system
(Ad-valorem or Special Act). The change is simply a display change and does not
affect any totals in the system.
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08/20/08 The
L-4047 report had a display bug on the report. The report was displaying the
CLASS CODE of the last class of property that the user was on within the
system. Report was updated so that the class code is displaying the code of the
class the L-4047 was run for within Program Management.
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08/12/08 There
was a bug in the Assessing system for the fields (Mm1_TaxpayerCityState and
Mm1_PropertyCityState)when the Zip code was a 5-4 Zip code. The system was truncating
the last character on the report. The latest version has increased the size of
the field length for these fields but if there are any existing reports that
had these fields in them those fields will have to be deleted from the report
and then re-added.
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08/06/08 Due
to some changes to the PRE for the Conditional Rescinds in late May some of the
Change Notice Forms were not reporting the PRE/MBT information correctly on
those forms (Change Notice Laser/Change Notice Leasehold and the Change Notice
Change In Taxes.) The lastest update has the appropriate changes to these forms
so the PRE/MBT/Qualified Ag and Qualified Forest are displaying correctly.
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08/04/08 There
was a bug in the User Security section on the Program for users to view
ASSESSOR COMMENTS if those users were not ADMINISTRATOR users. The latest
update has the fix to this issue.
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07/29/08 Fixed bug where sometimes
"Basement Units" would show "No Rates" for Multiple
Residences. Multiple Residences always
have rates for Basement Units.
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07/24/08 A minor change was made to the L-4031
report. The line for P.R.E. was changed to P.R.E./MBT.
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07/23/08 Changed date ranges on the L-4047 report to
10/07 thru 3/08 and 4/08 thru 9/08.
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07/16/08 The was a change to the 4017 when there was
zero sales for one year of the study the program was still using
both sales for an average adjusted
ratio. We have been advised from the STC to “use only the one years result for
the ratio”.
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07/10/08 The TCV within the physical characteristics
of sales was excluding the land improvements.
This has been fixed.
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07/03/08 A new User Security
option was added under the Access Category Setup Options. Equalization/Sale
Report setup was added to allow users access to that section of the program
without having access to the other Governmental Unit Options.
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07/03/08 The Total Floor Area (T.F.A.) within the
residential buildings was not adding the square footages entered for lines 5
and 6 of the overhang section. This has been corrected.
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06/24/08 A new field was
added to the Tax billing screen to allow users to easily identify those parcels
that are part of an NEZ district NEZ APPLIES. This field is also exported in
the Standard ASCII Export within the VALUES file.
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06/12/08 A new
Classification has been added to the TAX BILLING INFO BUTTON. The option is
called NEZ-NEW-NONPRE. An update to Assessing AND Tax will have to be run in
order for this option to be available as well as tranfered to Tax.
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06/12/08 The L-4047 1 year study report was
incorrectly displaying the dates for last years study. Latest update corrects
the date range to display as 10-07 THRU 3-08 and 4-08 THRU 9-08.
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06/11/08 There is an option
added within the foundation pull down of the basic building area to add
overhang. This is used when the overhang is big enough that the user wants it
to get the heating adjustment applied to it.
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06/05/08 There was a bug in the Standard ASCII IMPORT
option in that if the user was not importing the VALUES file and had the DON’T
IMPORT INACTIVE PARCELS option in the CHOOSE FIELDS TO IMPORT toggled on the
import was not importing/adding new parcels.
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06/05/08 The MAP button was
added to the PUBLIC VIEWING MODE screen.
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06/02/08 The L-4626 report had a limit of 11 School
Districts on the report so any municipality that had more than 11 School
Districts the report was not including those school district totals. The latest
version of the Assessing application now allows an unlimited number of school
districts on that report.
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05/28/08 A new report option
was added to the Invalid Address Report under REPORTS/ASSESSING REPORTS/INVALID
ADDRESS REPORT. The new option allows the user to exclude those parcels that
have no property address #’s (typically Vacant parcels) from the report.
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05/21/08 A bug was present
in the values import where records were not being inserted. This has been
corrected.
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05/13/08 A new Special Acts
Classification was added in the Tax Billing Info Screen to identify IFT REHAB
parcels. The option will be IFT REHAB in that classification list.
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05/12/08 The special population options of C/I/U in
the Choose Report Options were not working properly. Latest update corrects
this issue so that those Special Populations report properly for those parcels.
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05/09/08 The L-4046
equalization report was incorrectly reporting Assessor values in column 11,
rather than March values. This has been corrected.
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05/09/08 An new choice in
the rollover options was added to remove over-ride value on estimated personal
property.
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05/09/08 2 additional OH
areas have been added to the Residential Building pricing section.
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05/09/08 In the reporting
system ANY parcels that were flagged in the Tax Billing screen as a
PILT-Payment in Lieu of Taxes was incorrectly being included in the Ad-valorem
totals. Latest version excludes these from the ad-valorem totals.
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05/07/08 Hot Tubs &
Whirlpools within the land improvements were using incorrect rates for the 2003
cost tables. This has been corrected.
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05/01/08 An option to
“Don’t show Sketch on PRD was added to the Miscellaneous screen. This allows
sketch a jpg to not be diplayed in the IS/PRD sites on an individual parcel
basis.
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04/29/08 The special
population of Ren Zone (Ad-Valorem) was incorrectly excluding the Tool/Die
Renaissance Zone parcels. The special population was correctly including the
partial Tool/Die Ren Zone parcels however. The latest Assessing update has the
fix for this option.
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04/28/08 The L-4626 report
is now available in the Assessing reports. There is also a choice in the
“choose report options” to “write results to an Excel text file (CSV). By
checking that option it will create an excel file to email to the STC and it puts
it in the C:\Equalw folder.
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04/28/08 Conditional
Rescission has been added to the PRE screen. The user will have to rescind the
current PRE and then file the Conditional Rescind Form and mark it in the
Ql.Ag/Frst/Mbt screen. The form is also available in the print menu.
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04/25/08 In the Tax Billing
Info button a new Classification option was added IFT PERSONNAL ON COMMERCIAL
CLASS. This is to identify those commercial class parcels that are in an IFT
district.
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04/25/08 The SPECIAL POPULATION Ren Zone (Ad-Valorem)
was incorrectly including the Special Act Ren Zone options. Latest update
corrects this issue.
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04/18/08 A new toggle option was added to Program
Management/Gov Unit Options/DDA LDFA DISTRICTS. The option LEVIES MILLAGE was
added to identify those districts that Levy Millages. The new report L-4626
needs to be able to identify those districts that levy millage to report
properly on those districts.
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03/20/08 There were some
reporting/calculation changes to the L-4022 TX report. This change will affect
the +/- TAXABLE ADJUSTMENT total column as well as the Headlee Addition column
on the L-4022 TX report. Versions prior to this change were not reporting the
correct Taxable Adjustment and Headlee Additions.
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03/13/08 The MBOR DATE field was not importing
properly from the ASCII IMPORT function. All other fields including values are
being imported correctly. Updating to the latest version and re-running the
export/import will bring in the MBOR date properly.
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03/10/08 In the Export/Import function for the TAX
BILLING SCREEN the % in District in the DDA/LDFA/Other Authorities was not
importing the % in District.
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03/07/08 There was a display bug on the TAX BILLING
INFO button. If a user had populated the 3rd cell of the DDA/LDFA
option the Tax Billing Info button in the Parcel Edit screen was not displaying
the (D3) in that button. The (D1) and (D2) was displaying correctly just not
the 3rd cell.
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03/05/08 There were several
calculation changes made to the L-4025 report. The report was incorrectly
reporting the School district totals for retired and split/combine parcels. The
latest update has all of the corrections for the L-4025 report.
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03/03/08 When using the SPLIT/COMBINE TOOL and there
were multiple parent parcels involved in the Split/Combine the system was not
correctly listing all of the PARENT parcels within the LAND DIVISION INFO
SCREEN. The system did list all parent parcels involved in the Land Division
Comments screen however. Latest version lists all parent parcels involved in
both areas of the Land Division screen.
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03/03/08 The Assessment Roll Certificate (IFT) report
was not including all of the parcels flagged as being in an IFT. There were
several new options added to the classification list in the Tax Billing Info
screen and these new options were not being included in that report. That
report will now include any parcel flagged in the tax billing info screen as an
IFT.
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02/28/08 A couple of new
fields were added to the property Class report that is printed from
the Property Class Setup window in Program management. The new fields added to
the report are: 1)
Exclude
from Equalization, 2) If excluded, enter TCV and 3) Act 415 use.
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02/05/08 In the Tax Billing/Override SET rate cell
several options were removed from that list. The prior list had several WINTER
options that should not have been in the list since SET is only collected in
the Summer Tax season. The new list is as follows: This also changed the ASCII
Export from the Assessing application slightly. Any export run with this
version or later will have a VERSION of 2008 A in the header.
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02/18/08 The L-4028 report
under Equalization Reports was incorrectly displaying the LOSSES. The total
LOSSES displayed for the entire County database was correct but the breakdown
for the Townships/Villages/Cities was not correct.
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02/13/08 The latest update
that was distributed – the “February 2008 Update” – contains a program
bug that may effect your L-4022 AV Report.
This will need to be corrected before you submit your MBOR numbers to
your Equalization Department. The problem occurs in Municipalities that use an “Exempt
Class” for 2008. If you use the
“Taxable Status” field to manage your exempt properties no program update is
necessary. If you have properties that are going to exempt for 2008, and you
use an “Exempt Class” an update is necessary. The error occurs when printing
the L-4022 (AV) since the program fails to include the “Equalization
Loss.” The “Loss” amount properly shows
in the “2008 Calculation Detail,” however, the amount is not stated on the
L-4022. The problem is evident when you run the report since it will note a
cross-foot error since the total will not balance. Please note: the Loss is
properly reported on the L-4023. To correct this problem you will need to
install an update if your program version date is prior to February 13, 2008
and you have parcels going to exempt for 2008. Please download the latest
version from BS&A Software's website or call 517-641-8900 and ask for an
update to be mailed to you. The February mass update also had an issue in the MISC/STATS report
in reporting the SEV times PRE numbers. The new MBT parcels were not reporting
in the PRE/MBT totals. They were reporting correctly in the PRE times Taxable
section of the report.
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02/05/08 A new option was
added to the system to allow those users that display their data on the web to
prevent certain sections pictures from displaying on the web. In Program
Management under Accessory Programs/Attachment Security. By toggling an option
in this section NO PICTURES within that section will display on the IS (web
service).
02/04/08 There were 2 new
choices added to the Tax Billing Info screen. The new fields are RZ-NEW NEZ and
RZ – Rehab NEZ.
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01/29/08 A mass update was
mailed to all customers with several very important changes to the Assessing
system. One change from the STC that will NOT be in the Assessing system is in
the Personal Property section under Table L (Cellular Equipment Form 4452). The
STC added an additional year to the existing table. To add an additional year
to the table it would require a data conversion to all databases. Because of
the time of year this was not an option and therefore form 4452 does not match
the STC’s form for this Assessment year. Those users that have Cellular
Equipment (form 4452) and equipment is reported in the PRIOR line of that table
(the .04 depreciation) they will have to do a hand calculation on those and
override the value on that parcel.
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01/29/08 A bug that allowed “no access” users access
to the Enable Disabled Fields in the previous years adjustment
windows has been corrected.
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01/28/08 New STC required reports, the March Board of
Review Action Report and March Board of Review Log are now available. However,
because Equalizer only tracks March to March class changes, the Report of
Classification Changes to Industrial Personal will have to filled out manually
by the assessor.
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01/25/08 There was a bug in
the pricing/rate for Metal Bins in the Agricultural Building section. The
calculation for the bushels was wrong. To calculate the amount of bushels is as
follows: 1 bushel equals 1.2445 cubic feet so you calculate the cubic feet of
the structure and then divide by 1.2445. The calculation divides by 3 (as in 1 bushel
equals 3 cubic feet). The system was
multiplying by 3 instead of dividing causing an incorrect rate/amount of
bushels.
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01/23/08 There was a bug in the Import process when
importing the Current values and a partial transfer had taken place. The import
was incorrectly importing the cap value and when a partial transfer had taken
place the Taxable value was not matching the taxable from the data of the
export. This update corrects that import issue.
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01/21/08 A change was made to the EXPORT/STANDARD
CHANGE NOTICE EXPORT. The field for Qualified Ag which used to export a Y or N
is now a numeric export of 0,1,2,3 or 4. The Change Notice file layouts have
also been updated to reflect this change.
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01/18/08 The new changes
from the STC on the form L-4046 have been added to the Assessing System.
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01/16/08 Any Change notice
(change in taxes) form will not correctly calculate “change in taxes” for
commercial and
industrial personal
property. This is a result of the Michigan Business Tax Exemption. BSA
recommends printing
the normal change
notice for these properties.
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01/15/08 The system will now correctly run a
Countywide L-4018 report. When running the L-4018 for the entire county totals
the special population needs to be Ad-Valorem parcels and within the CHOOSE
REPORT OPTIONS button the user must toggle the option GENERATE ENTIRE COUNTY
TOTALS as well as the Pull Values from set to PREVIOUS YEAR.
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01/14/08 When running an L-4018, the system would generate
and error for each parcel stating that the Gov. Unit was not found in Gov. Unit
List. This has been fixed.
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01/11/08 There was a change to the system in the PRE
section of the program. If a user sets the Qual.Ag/Forest option to Qual.Fr.
the system will set the Exemption % to 100% and not allow any other percent
other than 100%. Qualified Forest exemptions cannot have partial percentages
only 100%.
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01/07/08 Updated/Corrected
pages for STC Assessors Manuals Volume 1 and 2, Vol 1 - Farm: pages 221, 247,
251, and 259
Vol 2 - Hospitals - Convalescent: Cal 87. The following pages have
the corrections/updates per the STC.
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01/03/08 The latest changes
from the STC on the L-4400 (Assessment Change Notice) have been updated in the
system. This includes the Change Notice (Change in Taxes, Change Notice Laser,
Change Notice Leasehold and Change Notice Self Mailer forms.)
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01/02/08 2 new fields have
been added to the Standard Change Notice Export under FILE/EXPORT DATA. The 2
new fields added to the export are Current Class Description and Previous Class
Description. The fields were added to the end of the export and both are 25
characters long.
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01/02/08 There was a bug in the system when trying to
print a personal property statement for certain personal property parcels. For certain
parcels the system would only print a BLANK page instead of the actual Personal
Property statement. These parcels have some “junk” statements on them that need
to be removed. If you have a good backup of the database download the latest
update and then run the Utility/Support Utilities/Remove Widowed Records
utility. This utility will automatically look for and remove these “junk”
personal property records.
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12/10/07 Due to Bulletin 7 of
2007 both Commercial Personal and Industrial Personal property classes will now
be treated with the “homestead” group that receives full or partial “principal
residence” or ”qualified agricultural” exemption. Both Commercial personal
property and industrial personal property taxable values will no longer be
reported in the “non homestead” group but will be included in the “homestead
group”.
12/05/07 There was a bug in the printout of the
L-4031 form for prior year adjustments not printing the Comments on the form.
This was only an issue when entering an adjustment for the 3rd or 4th
years (In a 2008 database entering an adjustment in the years 2006 or 2005.) If
the user entered the comment and escaped out of the Detail screen and then went
back in to print the L-4031 the comment did then print. This bug has been
resolved.
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12/04/07 The special population of C/I/U w/o REZ was
including the REZ’s. This has been fixed.
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11/28/07 There was a bug in
the Perimeter Multipliers in the Commercial Building section for STORES,
RETAIL. The system was not pulling the correct multipliers for the STORE,
RETAIL Calculator Occupancy. This correction was made for 2008 databases and
beyond.
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11/27/07 There was a bug in the program for a short
period of time where if indexed on ECF Table, it would not display the correct
neighborhood description with it. It would also change your neighborhood
description to match the code.
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11/27/07 The up to date 2007 STC Personal Property
Statement is now available and in the Assessing system.
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11/20/07 The new CELL TOWER
multipliers of the Personal Property Statement are now in the Assessing system.
These multipliers are contained in STC Bulletin 11 of 2007(SECTION D.)
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11/19/07 There was a bug in the ASCII EXPORT within
the SALES file. The OTHER PARCELS IN SALE were not getting exported/imported.
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10/31/07 There was a change to the reporting aspect
of the Assessing system. Previously any report run for ALL RECORDS/AD-VALOREM
PARCELS at the end of the report would ask the user YOU HAVE JUST RECALCULATED
THE ENTIRE DATABASE DO YOU WANT TO SAVE TOTALS? The system will no longer
prompt the user this message. When a report is run for ALL RECORDS/AD-VALOREM
parcels the system will now automatically save those totals to Program
Management.
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10/30/07 On the L-4047, the Line 3 Adjustment
modifier was rounding incorrectly. This has been fixed.
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10/23/07 There was a bug in
ZONING display within the Parcel Edit screen. The system was incorrectly
displaying a zoning in the OTHER ZONING 1-4 cells when there should have only
been a PRIMARY ZONING entered.
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10/23/07 Due to user request
a new option was added to the MISC button within the Parcel Edit screen. For
the PRD or Internet display service a new option of DON’T SHOW NAME ON PRD was
added. This option will still display the Address information of the parcel but
no name information.
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10/15/07 Page 3 of the Real Property Statement
Foreclosure was add into the system. Initially page 3 of this form was not on
the STC website.
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10/03/07 A bug in the realestate summary, printed the
square footage of commercial buildings incorrectly. This
has been fixed.
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09/24/07 New special
populations within the BOR/ADJ export to Tax have been added. This change was
made to allow for recent PRE Treasury Audit corrections.
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09/21/07 There was a bug in the assessing system when
trying to DELETE a building from a parcel. When trying to delete a building the
system would kick the user out of the system with no error messages and would
not delete the building.
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09/21/07 Viewing multiple sketches in public viewing mode.
You now have a choice of which sketch you want to view.
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09/17/07 There was a bug in the L-4015 report in the
CHOOSE REPORT OPTIONS section. The option that allows a user to run the report
on a database that was not yet rolled over was not working. The user would
switch the setting and the system would set it back to the ROLLED OVER DATABASE
OPTION.
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09/17/07 A new Report Option
was added to any custom report added by a user in the Report Writer under the
Choose Report Options. A toggle called DON’T PRINT DUPLICATE OWNER NAMES was
added to allow the user to exclude EXACT Owner NAMES from printing multiple
times on the report. The database needs to be indexed on OWNER NAME or the
report will have to be SORTED by NAME OR ZIP CODE/NAME.
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09/14/07 There was a reporting bug in the
REPORT/EQUALIZATION REPORTS/SCHOOL DISTRICT REPORT. The report was not correctly
reporting the PRE/NON-PRE totals when a parcel in a municipality had a PREVIOUS
SCHOOL DISTRICT. If there were no School District changes in a municipality the
report was calculating correctly.
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09/13/07 There was a
reporting bug for the PRE/NON PRE totals for Land Bank properties. On the
Misc/Stats report the system was incorrectly reporting the PRE/NON PRE totals
for these parcels.
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09/12/07 There was a pricing
bug in the Commercial/Industrial building section for the Calculator Occupancy
Hospital, Surgical Centers. The issue was in the Sprinkler pricing section. If
a square footage was entered say 50,000 it was pricing out lower than a square
footage entered of 42,000. The issue has been resolved in the Sept 12 version.
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09/11/07 The Property Transfer Affidavit had been
updated to duplicate the 8-07 version on the STC website.
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09/06/07 The printed record card will now indicate if
a parcel is Qualified Ag or Qualified Forrest by the PRE area on the front
page.
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08/29/07
There was a bug
in the program for only about a week that made the calculations for the 4047
from the 4015 incorrect. The program was putting an adjustment modifier on the
current year sales instead of last year sales. This has been corrected.
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08/28/07 The LAND BANK SALE BROWNFIELDS were
incorrectly being reported in the SPECIAL ACT TOTALS. As long as the option in
the TAX BILLING INFO of MAKE AD-VALOREM is toggled AND an EXPIRATION DATE is
entered the system will only include the LAND BANK SALE BROWNFIELDS in the
AD-VALOREM totals.
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08/27/07 The new form by the STC for Real Property
Statement-Financial Institution-Previously Foreclosed Property has
been
added to the system. Under Reports/Sale Reports there is a new option called
RPS Foreclosure.
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08/21/07
There
was a calculation error in the Commercial/Industrial building section of the
system. This issue could affect the pricing in the Basement section. Below is a
list of the Basement options listing the “old” or incorrect list and then the
“new” or corrected list in the commercial/industrial building section of the
system. The old list for C/I Basements was:
Finished, Typical
Office/Living
Units
Unfinished/Utility
Parking
Parking/Low
Cost
Storage
Semi-Finished
The correct list now is:
Finished/Office
Basement
Units
Unfinished/Utility
Parking
Parking/Low
Cost
Storage
Semi-Finished
Because the program only stores the position, some users will have
selected the wrong choice for basement finish. Users will have to review
their C/I basement selections, running a possible calc problems report and
selecting the option ZERO BUILDING VALUE/ITEMS option will also locate any of
the parcels that were effected.
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08/21/07 The system now reflects the appropriate
changes to the L-4015 and the L-4047 reports due to Bulletin number 5 from the
STC on doing 1 year sales studies. One-year studies were previously based on a
calendar year and are now Sales occurring between October 1 of the
previous year through September 30 prior to tax day.
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08/10/07 There was a bug in the SPLIT/COMBINE TOOL.
In the Split/Combine options when the user had toggled the option PUT SPLIT
INFORMATION INTO CHILD LEGALS the tool was bringing over that info plus the
Legal Description from the parent parcel.
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08/10/07 There is a new
option in the Security System, Setup Options, Edit Street Master List.
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08/09/07 There was a bug in
the CPP shallow rates. The program was not deducting for having a foundation
selected as SHALLOW. This change will only effect 2008 databases and beyond.
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08/09/07 The ASCII FILE LAYOUTS document has been
updated in the system under HELP/OTHER DOCUMENTATION/ASCII FILE LAYOUTS. The
new fields added to track those parcels exempted from the SET Tax changed the
layouts.
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08/08/07 Due to user request
a new field has been added to the system under the TAX BILLING INFO area called
OVERRIDE SET RATE. This is a list field with the options of No Override, Set to
0 Mills, and Set to 3 Mills. This allows the user to track these parcels that
are either completely exempt from the SET or partially exempt for the SET Tax.
By setting this field on those parcels this information is now included in the
ASCII EXPORT and can be IMPORTED into the Tax system to track these.
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08/08/07 The Qualified Ag
field within the PRE screen is now a list field with the options Qual. Ag
(Qualified Ag), Qual. Fr (Qualified Forrest) or a BLANK option. This field was
previously a toggle field for only Qualified Ag.
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08/06/07 2 new fields were
added to the Personal Property section of the Assessing system. A RECEIVED and
BY fields were added to track that information regarding the ststement.
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08/06/07 There was a bug
when running the L-4015 for a QUERY in a COUNTY database as it was not
prompting the user for the GOV UNIT to save the results to the L-4017 report in
Program Management. This was only an issue in County databases AND if the
report was run for a QUERY.
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08/06/07 On the Record Card
printout per user requests the column AMOUNT under the Permit area was removed
and replaced with STATUS.
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07/27/07 An I/O error that
occured when personal property statements for prior years were added to a
parcel was fixed? This issue only
occurred when adding older/prior year statements.
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07/20/07 The ability to
import into the Residential Building file specific fields using the CSV
IMPORT/EXPORT has been added to the system.
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06/29/07 There was a bug in the inegration with the
Apex Medina version when trying to view sketches in PUBLIC VIEWING MODE. The
system would call up the sketch but when trying to exit out the system would
hang up.
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06/26/07 There was a bug in the MANUAL UPDATE option
in the system. The manual update was not working correctly.
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06/26/07 There was a display bug in the Assessing app
under LAND IMPROVEMENTS/FENCING/WALLS/RETAINING WALLS. When a user had toggled
in Program Management/User Preferences I PREFER TO ENTER THE DIMENSIONS OF AN
AREA. The system was not displaying the correct area for the LENTGH/WIDTH that
was entered.
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06/20/07 The L-4031 printout was not printing the
difference correctly when a PRE change was made for the 4th year.
For example if a 2004 PRE was adjusted in a 2008 database and the Original PRE
was 0 % and it was adjusted to 100% the difference was showing a – 100% change.
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06/14/07 There was a pricing
bug in the Commercial/Industrial Building section. For the Office Building
Occupancy under the BASEMENT section for STORAGE the system was incorrectly
adjusting for NO HEAT (-7.70) when NO HEAT for storage should have no
adjustment.
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06/13/07 The integration to
the newest version of the Apex Program (Medina Version) is now compatible with
the latest version of the Assessing system.
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06/13/07 When running a custom sales report and
pulling the field MM1_YourUnitName in a County database the report was not
pulling the correct Gov Unit into the report.
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06/12/07 A request was made
to have the OTHER DESC. Field within the Residential Buildings/Informational
Items to print on the Real Estate Summary printout.
06/05/07 The change on 05/30/07 on how the system
handles the data entry for LAND BANK PARCELS has been removed or switched back
to how it previously worked. The logic that tests for the existence of an
expiration date and also the logic that sets the value of the LAND BANK OPTION
field was put back in.
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05/30/07 There have been some changes to how the
system handles data entry for Land Bank Parcels. Today’s version removes the
logic that tests for the existence of an expiration date and also the logic
that sets the value of the LAND BANK OPTION field.
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05/24/07 There was a bug in the rollover process in
that the toggle switch in the LAND DIV. INFO button the COURTESY SPLIT toggle
was not being removed after the rollover. Latest update will correct this issue
for future rollovers. For those users that use this function this toggle can be
removed in mass for all the parcels in the rolled over database by using the
Set Database fields utility.
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05/15/07 The user security setting for extended
comments within a sale is now included with “Modify important sale fields”.
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05/14/07 There was an Apex
integration bug that was in the program from 5/11/07 through 5/18/07. It did
not allow the user to access apex. If you have a version date between there and
are having problems, update to the latest version and it will take care of the
issue.
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05/10/07 There was a bug in
the program that effected the cost of commercial buildings that had elevators
on them. There was a square foot cost added to the elevator adjustment that
should have been in the base cost. This was only in the program since May 1st.
This would not have affected anything priced out for the 2007 assessment roll.
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05/10/07 The L-4034 Millage Reduction Fraction
Calculations Worksheet is now available to all users regardless of having an
equalization license or not. It is available in program management, School
District, print button.
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05/08/07 Per users requests the “NOT USED” or
“REFERENCE” Sales on the Record Card printout that no longer printed was
changed back. All sales print on the record card.
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05/09/07 A change has been made to how PRE
information is imported into the Assessing system. Previously when importing
PRE information into a database the import would bring in all PRE information
for CURRENT year and PREVIOUS. The system now gives the user the option to
import Current/Previous/Adjustments PRE information. If the PRE information is
toggled and the Current Values only is toggled only CURRENT PRE information
will be imported. If the PRE information option is toggled and Previous Values
is toggled only Previous May 1 PRE info will be imported. If PRE information is
toggled but no time period is selected (Current/Previous) the user will get the
following message:
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05/08/07 A new field was added to the EXTRA ADDRESS
screen for ZONING. This field is also EXPORTED/IMPORTED in the Standard ASCII
EXPORT/IMPORT.
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05/08/07 In the new Map feature the system was not
looking for both upper and lower case in the URL path in ACCESORY
PROGRAMS/MAPPING SYSTEM URL. If the force all caps was toggled after the URL
path was entered the link was not working.
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05/08/07 The l-4028 report
for those municipalities that had a factor other than 1 was not displaying the
factor in the Truth in Assessing column.
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05/03/07 Per several user requests todays version
does not display “NOT USED” or “REFERENCE” Sales on the Record Card printout.
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05/03/07 There was a rollover
issue in Leasehold Impr. schedule and the H, I, J and K schedules from
the Cable and Utility sections. The rollover was neglecting to push down the year above the PRIOR
field in these sections. The update corrects this issue but if a database had
already been rolled over the user will have to re-run the rollover or manually
correct these in the 2008 Personal Property Statements.
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05/02/07 There was a bug in the Standard ASCII EXPORT
when trying to export the EXTRA ADDRESS file. The user would get a segment
violation and get kicked out of the Assessing system.
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04/24/07 There were some
incorrect calculations on the L-4028 report that have been corrected. The
L-4028 was not reporting the same numbers as the L-4025 report when run for the
entire county.
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04/23/07 All of the pricing
issues/corrections to the 2003 STC cost manual have been made to the system. In
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT under GOV UNIT OPTIONS/CALCULATION OPTIONS/COST MANUAL is a
new option called 2003 w/2007 corrections. This option should be the manual
that is used for all databases for the year 2008 and beyond. Once the database
has been rolled over to 2008 those users that either used the 2003 STC Cost
manual in 2007 or plan on using the 2003 manual for the 2008 Tax year will want
to set the Cost Manual to the new option 2003 w/2007 Corrections.
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04/19/07 There was a display bug when trying to view
the ASSESSOR COMMENTS. When trying to view the Assessor comments the system was
saying ASSESSOR COMMENTS NOT FOUND, ADD even though there was an Assessor
comment on the parcel.
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04/13/07 There was a
calculation problem on the L-4028 report. The report was not reporting the NON
PRE numbers correctly. These NON PRE numbers should match what the L-4025
reports and they were not.
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04/09/07 A new report was
added under REPORTS/ASSESSING REPORTS/MBOR CHANGE REPORT. This report is
similar to the value change report in that it will list all of the parcels that
went to the current year MBOR. Included in the report is the ORIGINAL value as
well as the MBOR CHANGE including a totals section at the end of the report.
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04/09/07 A new area was
added to the L-4022 report to inform the user if a class does not cross foot on
the report. If a class on the report does NOT cross foot the report will have
an * in the new column.
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04/09/07 There was a bug in the USER PREFEREENCES
section of the system. In the WHEN OPENING DATABASES, ONLY SHOW THIS YEARS
DATABASE OPTION if a year after 2007 was entered the system was not keeping the
year in the cell once the system was closed.
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04/04/07 There was an issue
on the L-4025 report calculations for PERSONAL PROPERTY when there was a school
district change. The system was incorrectly reporting the LOSSES/ADDITIONS on
the TOWNSHIP/CITY TOALS page. The correct way to report these is if there is a
school district change the L-4025 will report the LOSSES/ADDITIONS on the
school districts pages but NOT the TOWNSHIP/CITY page.
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04/02/07 There was a bug in the Parcel Number Change
Utility. The utility was NOT changing the parcel number format to the SKETCH
JPG files.
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03/29/07 Due to many
requests a new Report was added under Reports/Assessing Reports called MBOR
SUMMARY. This report will give a list of all of the parcels that went to the
MBOR in a report format.
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03/21/07 There was another bug discovered in the
Import process that was corrected. The issue was that the ASSESSORS EQ
ADJUSTMENT was not importing properly. Latest update has the correction. After
running this update re-run the import.
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03/21/07 There was a bug
where after rollover, the uncapping calculation for previous years partial
uncappings.
PLEASE UPDATE PRIOR TO ROLLING-OVER
TO THE 2008 DATABASE!
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03/20/07 There was a bug in the IMPORT/EXPORT process
with the EQUALIZATION ADJUSTMENT field. The import was not bringing in the
EQUALIZATION ADJUSTMENT at all. This was particularly a problem when COUNTIES
were importing the final MBOR FROZEN values from the local municipalities. Once
the latest update is loaded the counties will need to set the FREEZE option to
FREEZE MBOR VALUES and re-import the local units export again.
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03/14/07 A correction was made to the MBOR CHANGE
NOTICE form in the system. The form incorrectly had the last date of appeal to
the MTT as June 30th of the current year and it should be May 31st
of the current year.
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03/14/07 There was a
calculation bug in the 2003 STC cost manuals when pricing out GAZEBOS from the
LAND IMPROVEMENT SECTION. The system was incorrectly using rates per square
footage instead of a flat per unit rate. This pricing bug could potentially
cause a big change in value. For example if a user entered 100 square feet the
system is now going to price out 100 gazebos as the rates in the manual are per
unit not per square feet. There is an option in the POSSIBLE CALC REPORT that
looks for GAZEBOS with a number greater than 4 in that cell.
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03/13/07 There was a change made to how the system
handles POVERTY
EXEMPTION data entry at the MBOR. For those users that
have
Their values on OVER-RIDE the system now automatically
changes the ORIGINAL over-ride value that was on the parcel to the corrected
MBOR value. With poverty exemptions however since these values come back on the
roll the following year the user needs to toggle the MBOR occurred option and
then toggle the POVERTY EXEMPTION option BEFORE changing the values. Doing this
will prevent the system from changing the original over-ride value that was on
the parcel. For those users that do not have over-rides on their parcels this
change will NOT affect you.
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03/12/07 Updated the L-4035a to reflect the cosmetic
changes that STC had made.
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03/08/07 There was a bug when trying to run a report
indexed on the
APPT/DATE/TIME/WITH index. The
report was not listing in
The correct order. Once this update
is loaded the
EQMAST.DAT file will have to be
re-indexed in order for the
Sort of the report to work properly.
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03/08/07 There was a bug in
the system when trying to EXPORT the
PERMIT file from
the Standard ASCII Export that was causing
The system to
crash.
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03/08/07 The system will now
insert an AUDIT record anytime a change
is made to the CPI
% in GLOBAL CALCULATION OPTIONS.
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03/07/07 A new field was
added to the REPORT WRITER fields to allow
the user access to
the field that identifies how the INCOME
STATEMENT is being
used (INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES/INCOME
CAPITALIZATION
CALCULATIONS/GROSS RENT MULTIPLIER
CALCULATIONS.) The
new report writer field name is
Inc_StatementUsedFor.
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02/26/07 There was a bug when
entering Personal Property adjustments
at the March Board
of Review. Even though the Assessors
values were frozen
if a change was entered in the Personal
Property Statement
the Assessors NEW/ADDITIONS/LOSS/LOSSES were not being retained. The system was
incorrectly
Re-calculating
those frozen Assessors numbers. This would only affect the printing of the
L-4035 A form.
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02/26/07 On the L-4035 (Both Sides form on page 2
under the Assessed
Value section the wording
incorrectly read Tentative
TAXABLE value instead of Assessed.
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02/22/07 There was a problem
with how the system was reporting LAND
BANK SALE
BROWNFIELDS as SPECIAL ACT and it should have
Been included in
the AD-VALOREM totals. The system as also
Incorrectly
reporting PRE totals for the LAND BANK SALE
PARCELS. There
should not have been any PRE totals
Reporting.
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02/21/07 There was a bug in the Possible Calculation
Problem report
in that it was displaying on BLL
parcels that the parcel
is Ad-Valorem Roll Real but has no
land value. These have
been removed from the report.
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02/20/07 There was a display bug when indexing by
Mail-To Zip Code
and setting a BLOCK on a group of
parcels. The system was
not displaying the block properly.
It would have a few
parcels in RED as being blocked and
then an open area
and then a few more parcels would
appear as being blocked.
Even though the display or red block
was displaying
Incorrectly the system was setting
the block on the correct
Group of parcels.
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02/20/07 There was a bug in the system to where if
the user had a
NAME EXTRA entered in the TAXPAYER
portion of the NAME/
ADDRESS field this field was not
printing on the CHANGE
NOTICES. This was only the NAME
EXTRA FIELD IN THE TAXPAYER
NAME AND ADDRESS.
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02/20/07 A change was made
to the system in JANUARY for those
municipalities
that have parcels with OVER-RIDE values
and entering MBOR
changes. When an MBOR change is entered
in the system and
that parcel has an over-ride Assessed
value on it the
system will automatically change the
OVER-RIDE ASSESSED
value to the MBOR change.
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02/19/07 There was a bug in the SALES DATA DUMP
report in the SALES
SEARCH & ANALYSIS
portion of the program. The system was
Not pulling the correct Calculator
Occupancy for many of
the commercial buildings.
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02/16/07 There was a bug in the reporting of ADJUSTMENT on any reports
in the Assessing system. This bug was present on versions dated February 13th
thru February 15th.
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02/15/07 There was a bug when pulling the report field MM1_PrimaryClassType. The field should have been displaying SPECIAL REAL or SPECIAL PERSONAL but was displaying the old field type like CFT REAL. This would have been the same if this field was exported as well.
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02/09/07 The TAXABLE STATUS CODES option was expanded from 20 options to 40 options. There was a bug in that if a user exceeded the 20 options the other choices entered were not being displayed in the taxable status cell.
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02/07/07 A new PRINT option was added to the MARCH BOARD OF REVIEW
screen so that the user can printout the required MBOR forms directly from
within the MBOR screen.
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02/06/07 There was a rounding bug in the system on some personal Property parcels. On new Personal property parcels added for the year the HEADLEE ADDITIONS was calculating a dollar different than the NEW.
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02/02/07 The County Multiplier settings in the past were a GLOBAL setting. With this being a GLOBAL option a user could not enter the County Multipliers in 1 database for the 1998 Cost Tables and then enter the County Multipliers in another unit using the 2003 Cost Tables. The location of the County Multipliers has been changed as well from the GLOBAL CALCULATION OPTIONS to the CALCULATION OPTIONS area.
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1/31/07 A
bug was found when after Freezing Assessor values for
personal, New/Loss was being switched to Equalization Adjustment. This has been fixed and an update is necessary. If, users do not want to update please call support for further instruction.
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1-31-07
Form L-4260, Property Transfer Affidavit was
updated to meet the STC 1-07 version.
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1/30/07 A new
feature was added to the Land Table-Acreage Tables. “DON’T USE TOTAL ACREAGE IN
TABLE LOOKUP” This allows the user to apply this option on a Per Land Table
basis. Previously, this was only applied on a per database basis which, can
still be utilized if needed.
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01/30/07 The 1998 STC manual only there was a problem when pricing EQUIPMENT SHELTERS (CLASS D POLE.) These were incorrectly pricing prior to the Mass update that was sent out. There are no rates for this type/class in the 1998 STC manual. Per users requests these rates were added back into the system so EQUIPMENT SHELTERS in the AG BUILDING SECTION CLASS D POLE will have rates for the following. Equipment Shelter Class D:(Pole)
Excellent 0
Very Good 0
Good 1102
Average 784
Fair 0
Low Cost 484
Cheap 0
This change will only affect the 1998 STC COST MANUAL.
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01/25/07 There was a bug in the INVALID ADDRESS REPORT. For those municipalities that use the MASTER STREET FILE and had toggled Allow “0” Property Address Numbers the report was showing these parcels on the report.
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01/24/07 There was a cosmetic change to the valuation statement. It was not showing the TCV for table G1 and the total and TCV for table G2.
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01/24/07 There was a bug in the system when navigating through cells. As the user would arrow down each cell in the parcel edit screen the system would jump past the LEGAL button.
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01/22/07 There was a bug in the SEARCH function of the system. When searching using the quick keys (F5 for parcel search for example) then clicking on the SEARCH BUTTON the system was defaulting to % CHANGE. The system now defaults back to the last search option selected.
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01/22/07 There was a bug in the QUICK DATA ENTRY TOOL. When in the mode the system was not letting the user enter the NEW or LOSS.
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01/19/07 There was a new SPECIAL POPULATION added in the TAX BILLING INFO screen. The new option under classification is DNR-PILT (FIRST YEAR.) This option has to be selected for any parcel that is new to the DNR-PILT. Selecting this option will remove the parcel from the ad-valorem roll as LOSS/LOSSES and place it on the Special roll as NEW/ADDITIONS.
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01/18/07 There wa s a bug in the system in the report writer fields AGB_Occupancy and Cib_Occupancy pulling wrong data in the COMMERCIAL section: GARAGE, SERVICE/REPAIR was pulling LUBE LAUNDROMAT appears as LEX (MALL) LOFT. In the AGRICULTURAL section:BARN, FREE-STALL appears as blank UTILITY SHED, LEAN-TO appears as BREEDE.
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01/16/07 The L-4035 (Both Sides) has been updated to meet the State Tax Commission’s 1-07 version.
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01/16/07 A bug was found where the roll-over function was removing
Land Bank information from the Tax Billing Information.
This has been corrected. Any Units with Land Bank Parcels,
PLEASE verify your version date is 1/16/07 or newer.
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01/16/07 Land Bank parcels were reporting previous assessed/taxable
values when Ad-Valorem only special population was chosen.
This has been fixed.
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01/15/07 Residential land improvements for landscaping med./large
trees was pricing incorrectly. This has been corrected.
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01/11/07 There was a MAJOR
pricing issue ith the LAND IMPROVEMENTS\ LANDSCAPING PRICING PORTION in the
2003 STC COST TABLES. The rates for TREE’S SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE were 10
times higher than they should have been. This caused a dramatic pricing
difference in the RESIDENTIAL LAND IMPROVEMENT section.
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01/11/07 The file layouts for the values file in the ASCII export has been updated to include information from DDA/LDFA line 3.
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01/11/07 The Assessment Change Notice has been updated to meet the State Tax Commission’s 1-07 version.
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01/10/07 There was a bug in the Zip Code Lookup function of the Assessing system. The Zip Code 48033-3031 for Southfield
was saying it was an INVALID ZIP CODE.
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01/10/07 There was a bug in the Zip Code Lookup function of the Assessing system. Zip code 48315 iwas entering Richfield instead of Utica.
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01/09/07 Form 3594 (Comm.
Towers) was added to the Personal Property Statement Reports.
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01/09/07 Form 4047 was updated to match the years on the STC form.
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01/09/07 There was a bug when importing Land Division Comments. It was not bringing them in completely. This was fixed.
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01/04/07 The SPECIAL POPULATION of RENAISSANCE ZONE PARCELS has been
changed. Previously this special population would include any parcel in an REZ
even if it were a SPECIAL ACT PARCEL. Now this special population will only
include AD-VALOREM parcels in an REZ. The new name for the special population
is Renaissance Zone (Ad-Valorem) and this will include the following REZ types:
RZ - Ren Zone, Tool & Die Ren Zone, RZ - 25-75%, Tool & Die
Ren Zone 25-75%. There is still the REZ Special Population option that includes
ALL REZ parcels but the new name for that is RENAISSANCE ZONE PARCELS (ALL).
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01/04/07 There were several calculation corrections made to the AG
BUILDING pricing section for the 1998 STC COST MANUAL. Below is a list of those
buildings that were corrected.
|
EQ |
MANUAL |
|||
|
DESCRIPTION |
CLASS |
TYPE |
RATE |
RATE |
|
Utility Building |
S Slant Wall |
Average |
No Rates |
7.19 |
|
Utility Building |
S Slant Wall |
Low Cost |
No Rates |
4.61 |
|
Equipment Shop |
S Slant Wall |
Good |
No Rates |
11.89 |
|
Equipment Shop |
S Slant Wall |
Average |
No Rates |
8.73 |
|
Equipment Shop |
S Slant Wall |
Low Cost |
No Rates |
6.44 |
|
Equipment Shelter |
D |
Good |
No Rates |
6.47 - 9.10 |
|
Equipment Shelter |
D |
Average |
No Rates |
4.63 - 6.42 |
|
Equipment Shelter |
D |
Low Cost |
No Rates |
3.36 - 4.68 |
|
Equipment Shelter |
D Pole |
Good |
9.37 |
No Rates |
|
Equipment Shelter |
D Pole |
Average |
6.66 |
No Rates |
|
Equipment Shelter |
D Pole |
Low Cost |
4.84 |
No Rates |
|
Equipment Shelter |
S |
Good |
9.89 |
6.82 - 9.62 |
|
Equipment Shelter |
S |
Average |
7.02 |
4.88 - 6.77 |
|
Equipment Shelter |
S |
Low Cost |
5.09 |
3.52 - 4.94 |
|
Toolshed |
D |
Good |
16.30 |
12.37 |
|
Toolshed |
D |
Average |
12.37 |
7.63 |
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12/29/06 All
of the Custom Assessment Change Notices in the system
were
incorrectly displaying the CPI as 2 decimal places. These forms have all been
changed to display 3 decimal places. Previously the CPI on these forms would
display 1.04 instead of the correct CPI of 1.037.
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12/29/06 The ratio and factor report in Program
Management was not displaying factors
of less than 1.0000
(over assessed classes) on the report.
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12/22/06 The
up to date Personal Property Statement (Page 1) has been added to the Assessing
system. There were some minor changes to the form from the STC.
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12/20/06 There
was a bug when applying ecf’s by property type. The system would not apply
commercial class ecf’s to Res. & Ag buildings. This has been fixed.
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12/18/06 There was a bug in the report writer field
MM1_LegalDescription. The system was not pulling any data when this field was selected in a report or exported.
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12/18/06 The
L-4031 report has to be printed from the appropriate year DETAIL screen or PRE
screen where the adjustment was entered. For programming reasons only the
L-4031 does show under the PRINT button but the printout cannot be printed
correctly from there. A new message was added to the system when a user tries
to print the L-4031 from the wrong area.
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12/18/06 There was a bug in the report writer field
MM1_GeneralComment. The system was not pulling any data when this field was selected in a report or exported.
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12/15/06 A new field was added in the TAX BILLING INFO SCRREN. There
is now an EXPIRES ON date field for the REZ’s.
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12/15/06 There were several
issues corrected in the SEGREGATED COST
SECTION of the program that were corrected. These errors in the segregated cost file were mis-matching
cost items that had previously been setup prior to the conversion. For example
prior to the conversion in the CEILING section if an option of SUSPENDED
CEILING, ADD was setup AFTER the conversion it was being switched to CEILING
INSULATION, ADD.
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12/15/06 There was a rounding bug in some cases on the L-4017
report. The system in some instances was rounding the Ave. Adj. Ratio down.
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12/15/06 There
was a bug in the L4031 report that reported incorrect
data.
This has been fixed.
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12/14/06 There has been a major change to how the system both INDEX’S
and how the SPECIAL POPULATIONS work for JBOR/DBOR/MTT and STC entries.
Previously when a user indexed or used a special population for these
adjustments the system would only include those parcels that were adjusted in
the first previous year detail (2006 in a 2007 database.) Any parcel that had
an adjustment in PAST years at the CURRENT JBOR/DBOR/STC or MTT would not be
included in the INDEX or SPECIAL POPULATION. The system now looks through ALL
past years adjustment screens and the DATE as to weather it is included. A
WRITE FLOATING VALUES will have to be run after this update to assure this
change is accurate.
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12/14/06 There have been
some fixes/enhancements to the BOR NOTICE in the PRINT portion of the system.
The special populations were not working properly. There is now a new option to
enter the YEAR of the ADJUSTMENT along with the TYPE of adjustment. By doing so
the system will pull the appropriate adjustment and the year. Here is a sample
of the setup of the NOTICE BODY portion of that printout along with the new
ADJUSTMENT fields.
[10] Clerical Error
[20] Accepted Appraisal
[30] Assessment Determined to be Accurate
[STARTMSGTEXT]
-- Notice of
Board of Review Change --
Parcel
Number: [PARCELNUM] Class: [CURCLASS]
Property Address: [PROPADDR]
Date Printed: [DATE]
[ADJTYPE] has changed the property tax information on your parcel
for the [ADJYEAR] assessment year for the following reason(s): [REASONS].
The changes are as follows:
Assessed value from [ORIGASMT] to [ADJASMT].
Taxable value from [ORIGTAX] to [ADJTAX].
P.R.E. value from [ORIGPRE] to [ADJPRE].
%Transferred from [ORIGTRANS] to [ADJTRANS].
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12/13/06 There
was a bug in the reporting portion of the program when pulling the
LEG_LegalDescription field. The first few characters of the legal description
were being cut off in the report.
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12/12/06 The new Cellular Equipment Schedule for Personal Property
has been added to the system. Under the Personal Property section Table L under
Cable and Utility.
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12/11/06 There
was a bug in the DEC BOR SUMMARY report. The report was duplicating a parcel on
the 2nd page.
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12/11/06 The STC made a change to Cal 198, Class D, type Low Cost from
59.10 to 46.15
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12/11/06 There was a bug in the 2003 STC Cost manual when pricing
Mobile
Homes from the Residential cost tables. The system was using an incorrect rate
for AVERAGE class mobile homes if the WIDTH was outside of the ranges the STC
COST MANUAL has. For example if a WIDTH was entered of 30 ft. the AVERAGE CLASS was
pricing higher than the GOOD class.
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12/11/06 There
was a bug in the USER SECURITY SETTINGS when setting
the
security in the NAME/ADDRESS portion. If the option to
change
the TAXPAYER NAME/ADDRESS was toggled the system was
not
allowing the user to edit that info.
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12/08/06 The system not allows for a blended brick/frame exterior
rate for residential garages.
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12/05/06 There was a new index choice added for MTT Pending. If you
update to the latest version, re-index the EQMAST.DAT, get out of the program
and then back in you will see the new index.
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12/05/05 There
was a bug when printing the L-4031 form for the years
2004
and 2005 when in a 2007 database. The COMMENTS for those years which print in the EXPLANATION line on the
L-4031 form where pulling from the 2006 adjustment Comments.
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12/05/06 On the Questionable PRE report the owners name was added to
the report as per request.
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12/04/06 A new STATUS TYPE
to import has been added to the PERMIT
Import screen. The
status type of CLOSED was added to match
The Permit Systems
list. Users wanted to have the ability
To import the
CLOSED status type.
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11/27/06 Reference parcels either REAL or PERSONAL
were not being
included on the VALUE CHANGE REPORT.
This update will
include these parcels if there was a
previous adjustment.
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11/27/06 A couple of new
features were added to the system in
PROGRAM
MANAGEMENT/ADMINISTRATOR OPTIONS/USER INFORMATION
SECURITY
MANAGEMENT. Under the TOOLS button there are 2
New options SET
DATABASE FOR THIS USER and SET DATABASE FOR
ALL USERS W/O
DATABASE OPEN/CLOSE RIGHTS. These options
Allow the
ADMINISTRATOR to set the database a particular
User opens when
they get into the system.
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11/27/06 In the Ag building
section under UNIT-In-Place Items the
system was not
allowing the user to enter a NEGATIVE
number in the
RATE section.
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11/27/06 The updated Personal Property form (L-4175) has been updated
and placed in the system. The Personal Property
instructions
are not in the system but can be printed off
of
the STC’s website at www.michigan.gov/treasury
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11/20/06 There was a bug in the Residential pricing section for CLASS
A homes. The system was incorrectly pricing
the base bath in the system. If 2 full baths were entered the system
was pricing both baths.
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11/20/06 There was a bug in the calculation of the CAPPED value for
parcels that had Headlee Losses and there was
a previous Taxable SEV ratio applied to the LOSSES. The system was
not using the adjusted LOSSES in the CAP
calculation. This was a recent bug that was in the system for a
shoet time (somewhere between November 10th
to November 20th.)
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11/15/06 There
was a bug in the EXPORT portion of the program. They system was not creating
the BACKUP of after the
export
was completed. They system would go through the steps of compressing the file
but was not actually
creating the zipped file.
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11/15/06 There
was a bug in the SEARCH option within the SALE file when searching for the USER
# field. The search was
always failing.
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11/14/06 There
was a bug in the PERSONAL PROPERTY LABLE EXPORT. The Export ran fine but when
the user tried to BACKUP
and
COMPRESS the EXPORT files there was an error and the backup file was not
created.
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11/14/06 There was a bug in the 2003 STC cost tables for POST OFFICE
BRANCH D(BRICK) GOOD the rate should be $109.60
we're using
$106.90.
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11/09/06 There was an issue with the Commercial Calculator cost
section for Stores, Drug Stores in the Sprinkler
section. The system
was not using the correct rates.
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11/03/06 There was a printing bug when trying to
print the LAND
IMAGE on the property record card if
the
parcel
was vacant the system was not printing the image for the land sketch.
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11/01/06 Today's version has the following new fields:
MM1_Pet_Dock_Year2_JBOR,
MM1_Pet_Dock_Year3_JBOR,
MM1_Pet_Dock_Year4_JBOR,MM1_Pet_Dock_Year2_DBOR,
MM1_Pet_Dock_Year3_DBOR, MM1_Pet_Dock_Year4_DBOR
MM1_RsnForChg_Year2_JBOR, MM1_RsnForChg_Year3_JBOR,
MM1_RsnForChg_Year4_JBOR MM1_RsnForChg_Year2_DBOR,
MM1_RsnForChg_Year3_DBOR, MM1_RsnForChg_Year4_DBOR.
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10/30/06 We increased the size of the "Reasons for Change"
field, but temporary fields that dealt with reporting issues were
still the smaller size and causing those fields to overflow. This
issue was causing error 3006 on reports and causing the program to crash when
running reports.
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10/23/06 There was a bug in the 2003 STC cost manual in the rates for
Class A/ Gazebo Deluxe /rate.
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10/20/06 There
was a bug in the COPY function when copying the ADDRESS DATA ONLY info from one
parcel to another. The copy
would
say it was complete but it would not copy over the information.
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10/20/06 There
was a bug in the SPLIT/COMBINE TOOL that would not allow the user to run this
tool. The system would give eithe an
error #4 or error #5 and not execute the split. Also the NUMBER OF SPLITS
within the Land
Division Info button has been
increased to 32,267.
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10/20/06 The Petition/Docket # has been added to both the JBOR
Summary report and the DBOR Summary report.
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10/18/06 There
was a bug in the system during the Rollover process that did not transfer the
CURRENT YEAR L-4015 information
to
the PREVIOUS YEAR L-4015 in the L-4017 SETUP. For this year only, you will have
to reference the Previous Year
database
and hand enter the correct data. PLEASE verify your L-4017 information before
relying on the data from this report.
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10/18/06 The
update was incorrectly replacing the use codes file on stand alone PC's. Any
changes made to this
file were getting wiped out by an
update.
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10/17/06 In
the Parcel Edit Screen under the TOOLS button the TOOL BUILDING ON LEASED LAND
has been removed from the system.