GISValTech2025

Using ArcGIS Dashboards and Experience Builder to Build Responsive and Powerful Dashboards (Full-Day) Workshop
Monday, March 3, 2025 - 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Instructor(s): Lauren Voelker, Senior Solution Engineer, Esri, St. Louis, MO
Daniel Fasteen, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Tyler Technologies

Experience the power of building amazing dashboards to visualize your data! Intuitive data visualization tools such as web applications and dashboards are essential for the understanding of geospatial phenomena for both Assessors and taxpayers alike. These tools provide an easy-to-use way to derive quick and meaningful insights into community trends such as sales, neighborhoods, or other assessor related data. The value added through the creation of data visualizations and web applications can help assessment offices streamline workflows, provide taxpayers and assessors with the most up-to-date data, and allow for a meaningful understanding of the local community and neighborhoods.

This workshop will walk participants through the creation of several Assessor dashboards with emphasis on sales analysis and incorporate them into a single responsive application. The goal is to present a mass amount of data which can be overwhelming at times, in a simple and effective way. Displaying multiple data visualizations on a single screen supports dynamic data exploration and informed decision-making. The workshop is geared toward the professional who would like to understand the applicability of GIS technology as it relates to the Assessor’s office function. This workshop will provide attendees an in-depth and hands-on introduction to WebGIS using ArcGIS Online.

This workshop will be interactive, and participants will be using several ArcGIS Online application builders to create an interactive and responsive application. Each section will introduce the topic and include a hands-on portion. The exercises will build upon each other throughout the day.

Hands-on workshop: Workshop participants will use their own computer/laptops for the exercises, using calculation tools provided by the workshop. 

Stop by this informal meeting to meet fellow attendees, connect names with faces, and learn about the conference!

A discussion of how counties and states can work together to drive the creation, integration, and publication of digital tax parcel data. This partnership can be leveraged to make National, open access to GIS parcel data a future reality.

Shelby D. Johnson, State Geographic Information Officer, Transformation and Shared Services, Arkansas GIS Office
Christine Stinchcomb, CMS, Commercial Division Manager, Cobb County Board of Tax Assessors, Marietta, GA
Kate Kiyanitsa, GISP, GIS Specialist Program Manager, NYS GIS Program Office, Albany, NY

This presentation will be a fun, highly interactive discussion that will aim to equip any leader with a comprehensive framework for managing technical GIS staff effectively. As the audience, you will help guide the room and presentation through a series of decisions that will demonstrate the importance of a well-trained, productive team who are held accountable through meaningful performance metrics and data quality standards.

Nathan Langdon, GIS Mapping/ Property Ownership Manager, Maricopa County Assessor's Office, Phoenix, AZ
Phillip Leveille, GIS Specialists Supervisor, Maricopa County Assessor's Office, Phoenix, AZ

This dynamic presentation serves to outline the six distinctive phases of the American real estate market cycle and chiefly how values of all sectors of real estate assets are either positively or negatively influenced during each disparate phase of the market cycle.

• Spinning the Real Estate Market Cycle: Imminent Recession or Extended Expansion
  Ronnie Lee Phillips, CIPS, Land Economist/Commercial Real Estate Advisor, Realstar Realty Advisors, LLC, Knoxville, TN

In this two-part session, recognize the impact onboarding and professional development has on office culture and learn how multiagency collaboration can reduce redundancy and make us more effective stewards of taxpayer dollars.

• Multiagency Contract Collaboration
  Joseph Brewer, Mapping Supervisor, AL Department of Revenue
• Shifting Organizational Culture Through Onboarding & Professional Development
  Monica Williams, Deputy Chief Assessment Officer, Office of Property Assessment, City of Philadelphia
  James Aros, Jr., Chief Assessment Officer, Office of Property Assessment, City of Philadelphia

Summit County will share its journey on how eliminating paper and duplicate data entry via a real-time synchronization of systems greatly streamlines field and office tasks.

Dominic Basile, RES, AAS, Director of Real Estate and Appraisal, Summit County Fiscal Office
Kelly Harvey, Deputy Fiscal Officer, Summit County Fiscal Office
Daniel Anderson, VP/Practice Leader, Data Cloud Solutions, A Woolpert Company

In this 2-part session, attendees will gain insights into the implementation process, challenges faced, and the tangible benefits realized. The session aims to provide a comprehensive overview of best practices and lessons learned, inspiring other jurisdictions to consider similar advancements.

• Harnessing Street-View Imagery: A Success Story from Skagit County, WA
  Danny Hagen, IAAO-P, Assessor, Skagit County, Mount Vernon, WA
  Ian Larsen, Residential Appraiser, Skagit County, Mount Vernon, WA
• Storytelling for Impact – GIS Technology as a Tool for Advocacy
  Mike Dotson, GIS Supervisor, Franklin County Auditor's Office, Columbus, OH
  Michaella Radich, Policy Manager, Franklin County Auditor's Office, Columbus, OH

How to Be a Good Leader AND a Good Manager (Afternoon Half-Day) Workshop
Thursday, March 6, 2025 – 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Instructor: Shaun Christofferson, AAS, Chief Deputy Appraiser, Crook County Assessor's Office

There are some good leaders and some good managers, but few are both. Most of us have either experienced or seen questionable leadership and/or management. Colleges will learn the difference between a leader and a manager and how to be good at both. This applies to all, no matter their title. Additionally, this session will teach the many measurable benefits of being good at both. We will go over these benefits including, but not limited to building an engaged team, lowering turnover, increasing efficiencies, level of service and production.

This will be more lecture than interactive; however, there will be an hour or so of interactive time during the last part of the session. Interactive time will be mostly during the building of practical templates to use back at the office to guide towards being a good leader and manager.