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Date: February 14, 2011
Item/Subject: Order, Authorizing and Directing a Collaborative effortregarding the
Assessing Function in the Towns of Veazie, Orono and the City of Bangor
Responsible Department: Ory Council / Assessing
Commentary:
In May 2010, the Bangor City Council adopted a Resolve expressing Interest and intent to work
with the Town of Orono and Veazie to explore opportunities for collaboration. Since that time, a
working group of representatives from each community have been meeting to find areas of
common Interest. As a result, the Assessing function has been identifietl for further Sh dy and
review regarding possible collaborative efforts. This Order authorizes Bangor staff to work with
the staff members from Orono and Veazle to develop a plan for a potential cooperative and/or
consolidated municipal assessment service among the communities.
Assessor Birch recently provided an update to the Government Operations Committee.
Department Head
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Ory Manager
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Finance Director
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(TIRE.) ORDER, Authorizing and Directing a Collaborative Effort regarding the
Assessing Function in the Towns of Veazie, and Orono, and the
City of Bangor
WHEREAS, the Councils for the City of Bangor and the Towns of Orono and Veazie desire to
find opportunities to partner on municipal services; and
WHEREAS, the stated goals of these opportunities are to find cost savings and/or improve
the delivery of municipal services across the three communities; and
WHEREAS, the Councils from the three communities have appointed a subcommittee which
includes two council representatives and the manager's from each community for the
purpose of studying these issues; and
WHEREAS, the subcommittee has studied the delivery of Assessment services and determined
that each of the communities could potentially benefit from a collaboration of the
Assessment system; and
WHEREAS, the subcommittee identified several potential benefits of Assessment collaboration
including depth of staffing and overall Improvement of assessment services; and
WHEREAS, the subcommittee recogi that the three communities utilize different
technology and processes for implementing assessment services; and
WHEREAS, the subcommittee felt that these differences could be overcome through a
collaborative partnership that identified differences and worked cooperatively to address
those differences;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BANGOR DOES HEREBY AUTHOME AND DIRER THAT:
staff from the City of Bangor work collaboratively with the staff from the Town of omrro and
the Town of Vane to develop a plan for identifying and implementing changes that would be
necessary to Implement a cooperative and/or consolidated assessment service; and
Me group develop this operational plan and potential Implementation based on the best
practices In the field of assessment; and
the plan identify the benefits and limitations of a coordinated and/or consolidated assessment
service and include best estimates of implementation costs for the respective communities.
the staff of the three communities report back to the subcommittee and three Councils
spherically with updates and progress reports.
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