Call for Presentations for 2018 Conference – Tracks

Real Property Valuation

Submissions in this category should address valuation issues related to all types of real property. Topics could be general or use-specific and may include, but are not limited to:

  • Commercial properties
  • Residential properties
  • Condominiums
  • Large industrial properties
  • Golf courses
  • Assisted living and other senior housing valuation
  • Manufactured Home parks
  • Minerals – Mining, drilling and fracking
  • Subsidized housing/Low income properties
  • LEED “Green” construction
  • Cap rate development
  • Replacement versus reproduction costs
  • Highest and Best Use
  • Getting the property rights right!
  • Unique and specific property type appraisals
  • Model Development
  • Accurate definition of Neighborhoods and Market areas
  • Construction Materials, class and quality
  • High end homes and/or vacation properties
  • Property inspection best practices
  • Valuing land in built-out communities
  • AVM’s, regression and statistical analysis

Personal Property

Submissions in this category should address issues related to personal property from discovery to electronic filing to valuation. Topics could be general or use-specific and may include, but are not limited to:

  • Is it real or personal?
  • Cell towers
  • Canvassing methodology
  • Machinery and equipment valuation
  • Defending value: single vs. mass appraisal
  • Manufactured homes
  • Aircraft
  • Developing an auditing program
  • Useful lives of technology equipment, i.e. telecommunications
  • Improving the processing of returns
  • Alternative energy equipment (Solar, Wind, Hydro, Thermal or other renewables)

Agricultural

Farming today is not your grandparents’ farm. Submissions in this category should focus on the complete range of agricultural issues in operations such as aquaculture, aviculture, apiculture, hydroponics and greenhouse operations in addition to conventional farming. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Farmland valuation
  • Water considerations in Agricultural valuation
  • Developing crop rates
  • Effects of citrus disease on valuation
  • Renewable energy in farming operations
  • Sources of agricultural industry information
  • Marijuana farms and grow houses
  • Hydroponic farming
  • Agricultural Tourism
  • Farm to Market operations

Leadership

Submissions in this category should focus on methods to enhance leadership and management processes, personal growth and career advancement. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Mastering public speaking
  • Effective communication skills
  • Tools and resources for career advancement
  • Public outreach and education
  • Interviewing, hiring and retaining high performing employees
  • Interns in the assessors office
  • Leadership
  • Improving productivity
  • Effective job descriptions and performance evaluations
  • Designation programs
  • Employee recognition
  • Improving and maintaining morale
  • Multi-generation integration

Legal and Legislative

Is there such a thing as Tax Policy? Submissions in this category should focus on legal and legislative issues that impact the assessment profession and the communities they represent. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • USPAP and the assessor
  • Aligning office practices with statutes and rules
  • Legislative changes and their impact
  • Exemptions
  • Capping and assessment/tax limitations
  • Ownership transfers
  • Recent court decisions and legislative update
  • Appeal and litigation strategies

Assessment Innovation

Submissions in this category should focus on the latest techniques and technology that drive the progressive assessment office. What are the benefits and challenges of high tech available to assessment jurisdictions? Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Excel skills and applications
  • Open source software
  • Website enhancement
  • GIS in assessment administration
  • Are physical inspections obsolete?
  • Electronic filings
  • Web based interaction with property owners
  • Enhancing tech support
  • Integrating mobile devices
  • Drones in the assessment industry
  • Maximizing software potential
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Inter-governmental collaboration
  • Utilizing Big Data

Emerging Issues

The assessment profession is constantly changing. Submissions in this category should focus on emerging trends in assessment administration. Topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Vertical equity
  • Big Box valuation
  • Natural and other disasters and the assessor's office
  • Succession planning
  • Open access to public records
  • Social Media
  • Renewable energy
  • Introduction to open source
  • Indigenous population properties
  • Market analysis with limited data
  • Tiny houses
  • Airbnb

Mapping

Submissions in this category should focus on unfolding the power of modern mapping and GIS in the contemporary assessment office. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • The role of GIS in the assessment office
  • Data analysis and modeling through mapping
  • Value added from GIS data
  • Spatial modeling
  • Integrating GIS/CAMA/TAX
  • 3-D Modeling

New this year!

Exhibitor Solutions

Submissions in this category should focus on the solutions that exhibitors offer to the many challenges faced by assessing offices. These presentations do not need an accompanying jurisdiction and will not qualify for continuing education credits. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Software demonstrations
  • Technology in the field
  • Desktop review
  • Data validation
  • Data integration
  • Fraud detection
  • High tech tools that improve efficiency
  • Imagery and its role in assessment administration
  • Reappraisal services
  • Consulting services

For questions, contact Conference Content Committee staff liaison, Leann Ritter at or 816-701-8161.