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
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.
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.
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.
This
tool was added to the system a few years back to aid in transfering the BLL
parcels from the Personal Property
roll to the Real Property Roll. It is no
longer needed in the system.
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10/11/06 The pricing adjustments for the Occupancy STORE, DRUG STORE were
not pricing correctly. The height and Perimeter
multiplier sections in particular were not pulling the correct rates.
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10/11/06 There was a bug in the Heat adjustment pricing out for Space
Heaters for the Greenhouse Occupancy. These heat types were not pricing out.
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10/06/06 Rates for Post Office Main/Branch D-Brick were missing. These
have been added.
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10/06/06 There was a bug in the UTILITY/SUPPORT UTILITY/COPY SELECTED FILE FROM LOCAL DRIVE TO NETWORK COMMON PATH. The utility would not run once that option was selected.
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10/06/06 There was a bug in the Commercial section of the system when
pricing RESIDENTIAL GARAGES. The system was adding the
ROOF adjustment to the rate when that is already part of the rate.
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10/05/06 There
were a number of errors being generated when running Building Permit reports.
These have been corrected.
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10/04/06 There
was a bug when trying to pull the field MM1_AssessorPermitStatus into a report
or EXPORT. The field was not pulling the correct data.
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10/04/06 A new system prompt was added to the Assessing system. When
entering a PRE adjustment in the Previous year DETAIL
screen the system will now prompt the user that if the CURRENT PRE
is also affected that the user will have to go
into the PRE screen and make any adjustments to the current PRE as
well. Users were mistakenly thinking that if they
adjusted a PREVIOUS PRE that the adjustment was also affecting the
CURRENT PRE and that is not the case. This promp serves as a reminder that if the current PRE needs to be
adjusted that the user needs to make those adjustments in the PRE screen as
well.
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09/29/06 There is a new option in the SPLIT/COMBINE TOOL that allows
the user to set the PREVIOUS class of the CHILD parcel. Previously the previous
class on the CHILD parcel defaulted to the PREVIOUS class of the Parent parcel.
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09/29/06 There
was a bug in the report writer when selecting the field MST_SummaryResClass.
When running the report
it
was causing a segment violation which was crashing the system.
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09/28/06 There
was a bug in the system for the C (CAPPED VALUE) or S (SEV) that displayed next
to the 2004 and 2005
DETAIL
screen to represent if the SEV or the CAPPED value was determining the Taxable
value for that year.
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09/28/06 There was a pricing issue in the Commercial Building section
for Residential Garages. The system was not pulling
rates for
Excellent, Very Good, Good or Cheap.
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09/27/06 The
DEFAULT Depreciation for INDUSTRIAL, LIGHT, MANUFACTURING (CLASS S) was
defaulting to 2%
and it should have defaulted to 2.5
%.
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09/27/06 The
COMMENTS field that was expanded in the ECF section was not printing the entire
comment in the DETAIL PRINTOUT
within
the ECF section. This printout has been changed so that the complete comment
will printout on the DETAILED
PRINTOUT.
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09/27/06 There
was a bug in the program concerning the misc. totals and stats reporting
DDA/LDFA totals. This was fixed
and an update will take care of it.
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09/26/06 The
report writer field in the Comments file for Cmt_RecType was not pulling in any
data or exporting any data for this field.
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09/26/06 The number of characters allowed within the COMMENTS in the
ECF and ANALYSIS screen have been increased from
50 characters to
300.
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09/26/06 The letter used to represent the OTHER adjustment in the
DETAIL screens has been changed to H instead of
O because users were getting confused with the O for a parcel that
has an OVER-RIDE value.
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09/25/06 There
was a bug in the special population filter that affected all reports. Today's version has the fix.
The
special population was not pulling in the correct parcels.
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09/22/06 There
was a bug in the system when a user added a new database and ran a report there
were 3 error
messages
that would pop up each time. The errors were that the database did not have a
DEFAULT BOR,
PRE
AFF. REMINDER or TRANSFER AFF. REMINDER. After updating to this version the
EQCOMMENT.DAT file
will
have to be re-indexed to correct this error.
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09/19/06 In the latest version in the ADJUSTMENT screens for previous
years the option of ASSESSOR has been added
to the list of adjustment choices. This allows the user to select
Assessor for any PRE adjustments made.
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09/18/06 Land Tables were added to the Physical Characteristics area
of the Sales screen.
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09/18/06 The Mezzanine rates for Stores-Retail were not showing all of
the appropriate choices in the 2003 STC
Cost Manual. Theses rates per the STC manual are being pulled from
the STORES-DEPARTMENT section. (CAL 208.)
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09/15/06 There
was a bug in the TOOLS set databse fields when trying to set the field USER
ALPHA 2 field. The Tool
was
not setting the field. There was also a new field added in this tool for the
USER FIELDS. User Alpha
3 was added to this area as a field
to set in that section.
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09/15/06 Valuation
Prinouts would not print the entire description of user defined UIP items. This
has been fixed.
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09/15/06 Ad-Hoc unit in plac item within the land improvement were
priceing incorrectly. This has been fixed.
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09/15/06 In
the split/combine utility, parent parcel numbers were not transferring to the
land division
information
screen when there are multiple parents. This
has been fixed.
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09/15/06 Numerous commercial/industrial mezzanine rates within the
calculator costs schedules have been
updated to reflect
the current 2003 rates.
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09/15/06 We received a corrected set of rates from the STC for Cal 36
(COMPUTER CENTERS.) These corrected
rates are in the
latest version.
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09/14/06 The split/combine utility now transfers the parent previous
May 1 PRE to the children parcels.
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09/14/06 There
were a couple of minor changes to how the ADJUSTMENT screens work in the DETAIL
sections. Now
if
a JBOR/DBOR/OTHER adjustment is entered the system uses the LAST adjustment
entered as the final
change.
Previously if there was a DBOR entered in a previous year and then the user had
to enter a
JBOR
change the system automatically put the JBOR change in the adjustment 1 slot and
moved the
original
DBOR change to the next adjustment slot. Doing so the system used the DBOR
change as the
final numbers instead of the JBOR
change.
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09/11/06 There was a correction to the Occupancy Type Industrial,
Light Manufacturing for Basements/Mezzanines.
There were no rates for these areas in the system. The system now pulls the rates from the Industrial,
Heavy Manufacturing
section of the manual.
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09/11/06 Under the INFORMATIONAL ITEMS/FLOORS within the Residential
Building portion the option for
CONCRETE has been
added to the list.
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09/11/06 The Section 16 items for the Commercial/Industrial UIP items (Sub
Development Costs, Yard Costs &
Demolition) are now also in the LAND IMPROVEMENT portion of the
program under AD-HOC UNIT IN PLACE ITEMS.
They have been made available in this section so that it allows the
user to price these items WITHOUT
having the ECF applied to the value.
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09/08/06 A new high/low filter was added in the CUSTOM SELECTIONS
under the SALE REPORTS. The user now has the option
to enter a SALE
PRICE range in the custom selections area.
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09/07/06 In the SALE portion of the program a new field was added per
the request of the Kent County BSA Committee
Sec, 108.
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09/07/06 In the LAND IMPORVEMENT section POOLS/WHIRLPOOLS/HOT TUBS a
new field was added for the YEAR BUILT of the pool.
Also SAUNAS were added to this section. Saunas are also still in
the Residential Building
section/Built-ins & fireplaces. The pricing is the same for
both areas.
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09/07/06 There has been a new USER ALPHA INDEX field added to the
system called USER ALPHA 3. Like all of the other user
fields in the system this name can be edited in Program Management
Gov. Unit Options/Custom Field Labels. The
user can also INDEX on this field within the MASTER file. After the
update the EQMAST.DAT file will have to be
re-indexed in order to see this new INDEX in the list. Due to this
field being added the NOTES field was moved
on the screen to the top of the screen next to the FLAG field.
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09/07/06 Some new fields have been added to the LAND DIVISION INFO.
portion of the program. There are now 5 fields to enter
multiple PARENT PARCELS. There is a new field called PARENT OWNER.
This new field is also an indexable field in the
MASTER FILE. After this update is installed the user will have to
RE-INDEX the EQMAST.DAT file and once this has
been run there will be a new INDEX option called PARENT PARCEL
OWNERS NAME.
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09/07/06 There have been some minor changes/enhancements to some of
the fields in the Residential Building area INFORMATIONAL
ITEMS. In the ROOM LIST area a NOTE FIELD was added. In the
EXTERIOR area there are now seperate options for VINYL
and ALUMINUM. In the ROOF area there is a new area to enter the
PITCH of the roof (6/12.) In the CEILINGS area new
toggle fields have been added for CATHEDRAL, VAULT, TRAY,
SKYLIGHTS. In the BASEMENT area a new toggle field has
has been added for
DAYLIGHT for daylight windows.
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09/05/06 There
was a change to the SPLIT/COMBINE TOOL. When a user ran the split/combine tool
and only selected to CREATE THE
CHILDREN
PARCELS ONLY the system was not putting in the DATE OF LAST SPLIT COMBINE.
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09/01/06 There was a bug in the calculations of PERSONAL PROPERTY when
a parcel was ESTIMATED (VALUE WAS ON OVER-RIDE) in the
current year. The system was incorrectly reporting LOSS in the
amount of the PREVIOUS ASSESSED value. This was only
on parcels that had an OVER-RIDE value on them. Parcels that had Personal Property Statements on them were calculating correctly.
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09/01/06 There was a calculation bug in the new version for certain
parcels that had a FACTOR. In some cases the TAXABLE value
on some of those parcels were a $1 different after converting to the
new version.
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09/01/06 The
AEPP parcels classification under TAX BILLING INFO/SPECIAL ACTS CLASSIFICATION
was incorrectly excluding these parcels
from the Ad-Valorem roll. These parcels carry special millage calculations in
some cases and are fully exempt in others. These parcels exist from 2003-2012
when the law expires.
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08/31/06 The list for "Denied By" in the PRE window has
been updated to reflect only the entities that have authority to make
these changes. Also, any denial made will effect the current year
pre only.
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08/31/06 There was a pricing issue in the 2003 STC Cost tables when
pricing an A-Frame home. The system was pulling the rates
from the 1998 manual.
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08/31/06 The Flag Field is now an option within the set data fields
tool.
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08/31/06 The L-4046 report under Reports/Equalization Reports now
gives the user the option under the Choose Report Options
to report values from CURRENT YEAR MARCH or PREVIOUS YEAR MARCH.
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08/30/06 There is a a new option added, Not to flash flag field. This
is located in Program Management, User Preferences.
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08/30/06 There was a display issue on both the record card and the valuation statement when the Commercial
UIP
section was used. The printouts were not lined up properly for the UIP
sections.
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08/28/06 There
was bug in the values ASCII import, the Date of Last Split was not importing.
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08/24/06 There was a pricing issue in the 2003 STC Cost Tables for
Public Water and Public Sewer. The system was
using the rate seperatly for BOTH the water and the sewer instead of the total rate for both together.
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08/24/06 A a change was made in pricing of residential decks. Now, the
only choice for foundations is standard.
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08/24/06 A new option has been added to the Assessing system that
will allow users to access the PERSONAL PROPERTY
section of the program on a REAL property class. This is specifically
for cell towers that are not on
LEASED land. The new cell is located under the MISC button in the
parcel edit screen (ALLOW PP STMNTS on this parcel.)
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08/24/06 There was a bug on the L-4015 report in that the CONFIDENTIAL SALES where showing when the user displayed the SALE PRICE.
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08/21/06 Two story Pre-fab fireplaces in all classes were pricing
incorrectly, this has been fixed.
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08/21/06 There
was a bug when entering an ADJUSTMENT into the system. Periodically after an
adjustment was entered and
the user wanted to REMOVE the adjustment the
system did not display the blank option in the adjustment list
to allow the user to un-select the
adjustment.
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08/21/06 There was a bug in the 2003 STC Rates for Land Improvements
Flagstone/sand/BC Rate.The rate was showing $135.56
and it the
correct rate should be $13.55.
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08/21/06 A new option was added to the Possible Calc Problem report of
ZERO VALUE BUILDINGS/ITEMS. After the conversion
in Commercial/Industrial buildings it is very possible that
Basements and Mezzanines are not pricing in either
the 1998 OR 2003 STC Cost Manuals. The list choices for theses areas has expanded in the new version.
For example prior to the new version Mezzanines had on option of
OFFICE and OPEN only. There are now several
options for the mezzanines and basement section in order to match
the STC tables. The Possible Calc PRoblem
Report will go through and pull any buildings that have a basement
area entered or Mezzanine area entered but it is not calculating a value.
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08/18/06 There
was an issue in the conversion on parcels that had a factor for a class AND a
parcel in
that
class was uncapped. The new version was rounding the value differently causing
the Prior
final taxable to be slightly off.
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08/18/06 When
trying to REMOVE an ADJUSTMENT from a parcel the system was not allowing the
user to remove
the adjustment if a date was not
entered.
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08/17/06 When entering an ADJUSTMENT into the Assessing system the
user is now required to enter a date for the adjustment.
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08/16/06 There
was a bug with the Public Viewing Mode that did not display the lot dimensions.
This has been corrected.
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08/16/06 There
was a bug in the SEARCH function on the USER NUMBER IDX field. The search would
always fail.
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08/15/06 There have been 2 new reports added to the system under
REPORTS/ASSESSING REPORTS called
JULY BOR SUMMARY and DEC. BOR SUMMARY. These 2 reports will scan
through the database and list
any JBOR or DBOR that took place at the current BOR for all years.
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08/14/06 There
was a bug in the conversion process and converting the PRE APPLICANT in the PRE
screen. The
conversion was clearing out the PRE
APPLICANT field.
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08/14/06 There
was a bug in the field Cib_Occupancy in the Commercial Building report/Exports.
The system was pulling
"garbage" data for this
field.
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08/11/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing
from the Commercial building section for ALL Store Occupancies
(Department, Discount, Warehouse Discount,
Drug Store, Mall Anchor Department, Drug Store, Mall Anchor
Department, Warehouse showroom, Warehouse Food,
Florist Shop, Retail.) The Basement rates for these areas were not
pricing.
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08/07/06 The
L-4015A was pulling the incorrect APPRAISED value into the report if an
OVER-RIDE value was entered.
The
report was pulling the OVER-RIDE value entered instead of the actual Appraised
value.
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08/07/06 When an Adjustment is made to a parcel due to a
SPLIT/COMBINE the corresponding letter that shows next to
the DETAIL
screen has now been changed to an to "L".
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08/07/06 There was an error in the conversion of comments for "Adjustments". The ADJ Comments were not converting
properly.
To fix the error, run the new utility under Utilities, Support Utilities, Fix
Adjustment comments.
You
can run it multiple times per database with no harm. Do this for all historical databases as well.
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08/04/06 A new feature was added to the system in the User Security
screen. Under the TOOLS button the user
now has the option
to override the "USER IS ACTIVE STATUS."
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08/04/06 There was a correction to the 1998 STC cost manual in the
June 2006 Mass update. Toolshed Class D
Frame Avg. Quality had an incorrect rate. The new version now has the correct rate of $7.63.
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08/04/06 There were some AG building rates that were incorrect in the
1998 STC COST MANUAL after the MASS
June update. The following Ag Buildings had the wrong rates after
the conversion: No-Wall Commodity
Shelter/D-Pole Avg Quality, 4 Wall Commodity Shelter/D-Pole Avg
Quality.
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08/04/06 There
was a display issue on the L-4015 report when a Liber/page was entered that had
several
characters.
The Liber/Page field was expanded to 20 characters and this was causing the
Liber/Page
to overlap the Sale Date column on the L-4015 report.
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08/04/06 When
in PUBLIC VIEW MODE the system was not displaying the correct 2006 values.
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08/02/06 There was an issue in the June 2003 Mass Update with PRIOR
year taxable values when a parcel had a PARTIAL transfer. This issue did not
effect the CURRENT year or subsequent
prior year value. For example if the database is a 2007 database
this would only be an issue
on parcels that had
a 2005/2004 PARTIAL TRANSFER.
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08/02/06 There was a bug in the new June Mass update on parcels that
had a Poverty Exemption on it.
The new version was not grabbing the correct starting value for cap
calculations when the parcel had a previous year poverty.
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08/01/06 There
was a display issue in the 2003 Mass Update on the L-4017 report.
The
report was not displaying the correct amount of decimals for the Modifier and
the Ratio % totals.
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08/01/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing
from the Commercial building section for Warehouse Transit.The
system was still pulling the rates from the 1998 STC cost tables.
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08/01/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing from the Commercial building section for ALL Store
Occupancies (Department, Discount, Warehouse Discount, Drug Store, Mall Anchor
Department, Drug Store, Mall Anchor Department, Warehouse showroom, Warehouse
Food, Florist Shop, Retail.) These occupancies were all still pulling the 98
STC cost rates.
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08/01/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing from the Commercial
building section ROW HOUSE or TOWN HOUSE Class D Brick. They system
was not pulling any rates for this
class/occupancy.
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08/01/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing
from the Commercial building section BANK-BRANCH class C GOOD
Quality. The system was not pulling the
correct rate from the 2003 STC tables.
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08/01/06 For those users that utilize the STREET MASTER file in
Program Management there was a change to how VACANT
parcels are entered. Previously if the user did not enter a street
number the system would prompt the user
if this was a vacant parcel. We had several requests to remove this
prompt. The prompt was removed but a bug
was introduced that would not allow the user out of the address
screen. This issue has been resolved and now
if a street number is not entered the user can just escape out of
the Name/Address screen with no prompt.
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07/31/06 There have been several requests on the L-4015 report to
make the fields that print on the report optional.
Now in the CHOOSE REPORT OPTIONS of that report the user has the
option of printing the ADDRESS, ACREAGE,
GRANTOR/GRANTEE,
TERMS OF SALE and the INCLUDE SALE PRICE.
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07/28/06 There was a pricing issue in the mass update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing SHED 4 WALL UTILITY
and 3 WALL UTILITY in the COMMERCIAL BUILDING section. The system was still using the 98 STC COST TABLES
instead of the
new 2003 COST TABLES.
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07/28/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing RESIDENTIAL GARAGES.
The system was still pulling the rates from the 98 cost tables.
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07/28/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing a FLATHOUSE STORAGE
building from the Commercial Cost Section. It was pulling the rates
from the 98 Cost tables.
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07/28/06 There was a pricing issue the Mass update in the 2003 STC
Cost Tables when pricing a MATERIAL SHELTER building
from the Commercial Cost Section. It was pulling the rates from the
98 Cost tables.
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07/28/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
COST TABLES when pricing from the Commercial
Building section for BULK FERTILIZER STORAGE. The system was pulling the 1998 STC rates.
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07/28/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
COST TABLES when pricing from the Commercial
Building section for BAG FERTILIZER STORAGE. The system was pulling
the 1998 STC rates.
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07/28/06 There was a pricing issue in the Mass Update in the 2003 STC
COST TABLES when pricing from the Commercial
Building section for BULK OIL STORAGE. The system was pulling the
1998 STC rates.
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07/28/06 There
was a bug in the SPLIT/COMBINE TOOL with the DATE CREATED on the CHILD parcels.
If the PARENT parcel
had
a date created that date was carrying over into the CHILD parcels not the date
that the CHILD parcel was
created.
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CHANGES TO THE ASSESSING APP PRIOR TO THE
2003 STC COST TABLES UPDATE (MASS JUNE UPDATE)
06/22/06 This
version date has a bug when trying to enter any JBOR adjustments the system
generates a segment violation
error
and closes the program. This issue will be resolved in the Mass update that
contains the 2003 STC cost
tables that is currently being
sent out.
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06/22/06 There
was a bug in the system with the PARCEL EXISTS FOR DDA REFERENCE ONLY option.
If this option was
toggled
on the system was NOT including the parcel in the DDA/LDFA totals.
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05/31/06 There
was a bug in the REALTOR SUMMARY printout when pricing a mobile home with warm
and cool air.
That
heat type was printing out as Forced Hot Water on the Real Estate Summary
Sheet.
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05/24/06 A
change was made to the READ ONLY USER so that that that user can see the field
Work Description
in the Permit portion of the parcel.
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05/23/06 There
is a new SPECIAL POPULATION option ALL ACTIVE PARCELS. If this option is
selected the report will include ANY ACTIVE parcel in the database (AD-VALOREM,
SPECIAL ACTS, DNR, LAND BANK SALES.)
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05/23/06 When
entering a MBOR change on a parcel AND the parcel has an OVER-RIDE ASSESSED
value on it
the
Assessing system will now prompt the user to change that original over-ride
assessed value as well.
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05/23/06 There
was a change made to the reporting of LAND BANK SALES in the Assessing System.
Land Bank Sale parcels previously did not show on reports with the special
population set to SPECIAL ACTS. This parcels will now report with the SPECIAL
ACTS population.
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05/11/06 There
was a bug that was not exporting the RZ-Renaissance Zone Parcels. This has been
fixed.
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05/11/06 Tool
and DIE REZ parcels were incorrectly showing on reports when the SPECIAL
POPULATION was set
to AD-VALOREM (NO REZ.)
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05/10/06 There
has been a change made to the Assessing system for the reporting of DNR-PILT
properties. Previously the DNR-PILT parcels were being included in the SPECIAL
POPULATION of SPECIAL ACTS. The DNR-PILT properties will now only report totals
when the special population is set to DNR-PILT ONLY.
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05/04/06 There
was a bug in the ASCII export in the NAMES file in this version any update
after the 05/04/06 version date will correct this problem. The export was
sending a bad file layout for the NAMES.TXT file.
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05/02/06 There
was a bug when importing the values file. If a parcel that was exported, had a prev.
JBOR or DBOR poverty exemption,the import wasn't importing the proverty
information correctly. This has been
fixed.
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04/26/06 There
was a bug in the UNIT/SCHOOL/CLASS SUMMARY report. The error caused a memory
overrun and
from
time to time would cause a segment violation and would boot the user out of the
system.
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04/26/06 There
was a bug in the Reports/Other Reports/Personal Property reports. When running
a report
from
this section they system was not including all of the parcels when setting the
Multi Rec
file
options to 1. Parcels that were new for the current year and did not have a
prior year statemenr
were being excluded from the report.
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04/18/06 There
was a bug in system, when rolled over to 2007, the system wasn't reporting the
DNR-PILT properties when the
DNR-Pilt
special population was chosen. This has been fixed.
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04/18/06 There
was a bug in the IMPORT/EXPORT of PRE info. If a user was rolled over to a 2007
database and entered a PRE
that
affected the 2006 PRE, when that parcel was exported and imported into a 2006
database the IMPORT was changing
the
2005 PRE in that 2006 database. Latest version corrects this issue and allows
the user to export the PRE from a
2007 database into a 2006
database.
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04/17/06 A
new message box will come up in the BACKUP DATA section if the user has set the
OPTIONS in the backup to
BACKUP
FOR THE WEB or BACKUP WITHOUT SKETCH OR IMAGE FILE. This is so the user knows
that the backup they are about
to make is NOT a COMPLETE backup
file.
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04/14/06 The
School District Report within the Equalization Reports, now reports School
Totals by Unit and Unit Totals by School.
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04/05/06 Updated
the Property Transfer Affidavit with the current version on the STC website.
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04/04/06 A
change was made for any license file that has OAKLAND COUNTY in the license
file. At Oakland Counties request
any
parcel that is flagged as REFERENCE for the L-4015 type those parcels will list
last on the edit parcel screen/
SALE
button. If there are 2 sales one in 2006 and one in 1999 if the 2006 sale is
flagged as reference the 1999 sale will display first on the sale button.
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04/04/06 There
was a change in the administrator option for Archive/Un-Archive this database.
It is now called "Set Security for this database" which now has three
option levels for archiving.
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04/01/06 There
was a bug in the reporting system for parcels that were toggled Parcel Exists
for DDA Reference Only. The
BASE
VALUE was not showing in the DDA/LDFA base values in the MISC/STATS report.
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03/31/06 There
was a bug in the 03/29/06 and 03/30/06 version of the Assessing system. For any
user that may have downloaded
the
Assessing update off of the web on those dates there was a bug in the PRE % for
the PREVIOUS year. This version was not showing or reporting the PREVIOUS PRE
amounts. For those users that may have downloaded this version the 03/31/06
version will correct this issue.
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03/31/06 There
was a bug in the new version of apex (version 3.x) and being able to view the
sketches when in the
PUBLIC
VIEWING MODE of the Assessing system. When trying to view the sketch it only
opened a blank page.
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03/29/06 There
was a bug in the PRE portion of the system when trying to enter RESCINDS. If
there was a current year
PRE
entered (2006) and the user wanted to RESCIND that PRE for the 2006 year the
system was not allowing the
user
to RESCIND the PRE and it was also changing the PRE for the PREVIOUS year.
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03/29/06 The
system will no longer let the user toggle a POVERTY EXEMPTION on any parcels
unless it
has
a PRE % on it. State law specifies these are the only parcels eligible for a
poverty exemption.
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03/29/06 There
was a bug in the Assessing system in the ROLLOVER process. Any parcel that had
a PREVIOUS year (2005)
JBOR,
DBOR or MTT OTHER adjustment on it the rollover was placing a JBOR/DBOR/MTT
chang in the 2006 year. This was causing
the starting 2006 numbers to not balance.
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03/28/06 There
was a bug in the report writer field MM1_CurAssessmentYear. They system was not
pulling the currect Assessment year.
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03/28/06 There
was a bug in the system when a database was rolled over to a 2007 year the
system was
including
the DNR-PILT parcels in the regular AD-VALOREM totals.
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03/24/06 A
new option was added to the set fields tool. Appointment fields can now be set
in Mass.
These are the fields located in the
MICS BUTTON.
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03/24/06 There
was a bug in the L-4021 report in that the report was not showing the TAXABLE
ADJUSTMENNT
on the report.
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03/23/06 There
was a bug in the Assessing system in that parcels that were flagged as ACT 189
within the
Tax
Billing Info portion were NOT being included in the AD-VALOREM totals as they
should.
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03/21/06 There
was a bug in the program for a short period that would not let the Utility for
changing parcel numbers work.
It
would put a worng set of numbers in the map number area and not change the
parcel number. this has been fixed.
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03/17/06 There
was a bug in printing the reord card and the parcel had PRIOR year JBOR or DBOR
changes. The record card
was
printing strange data/characters on the card if there was a previous JBOR or
DBOR change.
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03/15/06 There
was a bug in the L-4028 report and it's caclculations that incorrectly reported
the LOSSES/ADDITION
totals on the report.
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03/15/06 There
was an error in the wording on the BOR DECISION printout. The printout
incorrectly listed the
the
date to appeal to the State of Michigan Tax Tribunal, no later then July 1st,
of the current year.
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03/10/06 The
L-4035 (both sides) was updated to the same version of the STC's.
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03/09/06 Today's
version does not display the taxable adjustment if in "User
Preferences" the toggle "Don't Display Taxable Adjustment" is
turned on.
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03/09/06 NO
ACCESS usersin that had the view set to the Equalization view and then go into
the TAXPAYER INFO section.
were
able to toggle the TAXPAYER is DEEDHOLDER within the Taxpayer info screen.
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03/08/06 When
a WRITE FLOATING VALUES Tool is performed the system will now insert an Audit
Record for this.
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03/07/06 In
the QUESTIONABLE PRE report the system now gives the user the option to MARK
the parcels
in
the report. This will then allow the user to index on the MARKED parcels to
easily check
the parcels identified in the
report.
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03/06/06 There
was a bug in the Standard Change Notice Export for the Personal Property. The
system was
not
exporting the appropriate files for the FILED and NO FILED option. They system
now has the
options
of individually selecting EACH FILED option that the user wants included in the
export.
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03/02/06 There
was a bug in the SEARCH option when searching for UNIT/DtNmChgd. The system was
not
allowing the user to enter in the
date in the DATE line.
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02/22/06 The
special population of PP Stmt Not Received the Reference Personal Property
parcels were
being
included in the results. REFRENCE PERSONAL PARCELS will now be excluded.
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02/22/06 The
ZIP CODE LOOKUP feature will now work in the
personal roperty, information items,
preparer information.
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02/17/06 There
was a bug when running reports with a special population and the DDA REFRENCE
parcels