Advanced Technology
- Modernized technology in every department, including hardware, software and training personnel
- Implemented a new geographic information system (GIS) providing a digital map with detailed information about properties
- Launched a new website with mobile device compatibility
- Researched, mapped and photographed all structures, with 94,000 parcels identified and drawn in GIS
- Provides GIS software and aerial imagery to all parish agencies
- Working with municipalities to complete and maintain GIS mapping
Enhanced Transparency
- Implemented website GIS digital property map, giving the public the ability to compare assessed values
- Provides aerial imagery to increase the accuracy of the tax roll and to help identify missing property and structures
- Drew and linked 75 percent of parcels with assessment number and imagery
Built Trust
- Removed thousands of ineligible homestead exemptions
- Removed hundreds of ineligible special assessments
- Added thousands of existing and new parcels, homes and buildings to the tax roll
- Made the tax roll more accurate, complete and uniform to encourage public agencies to lower taxes
- Continues to educate and keep citizens informed
- Reduced taxes by lowering the assessor’s office ad valorem millage three times
- Improved online search engine to provide more detailed tax roll information to the public
- Provided greater efficiency by decreasing vehicle fleet by 60 percent and staff by 10 percent