This is advanced clerical, technical and public contact work processing and maintaining the property assessment roll for the Property Appraisal Department.

Employees in this class perform a variety of detailed clerical and computer graphic work involving the use of maps, surveys, aerial photographs and subdivision plats. Emphasis of the work is on reading and interpreting complex legal descriptions and accessing and accurately updating the GIS layers to reflect changes in real property legal descriptions, property assessments, waiver of plats, new subdivision plats, municipal zoning and resolution of GIS overlay. Supervision is received from an administrative superior who reviews work for technical accuracy and conformance to established procedures and regulations.

ILLUSTRATIVE TASKS

Prepare and process realty changes and collectors cutouts for separations and groups, right-of-way takings, dedications, street and/or alley closings, new subdivisions' plat, waiver of plats and annexations; maintain and process resolutions/ordinance received from the county and other municipalities; access and update the GIS property layers to accurately reflect changes.

Calculate tax pro-rations involving court cases from the County Attorney's Office and other government agencies' takings and acquisitions such as Everglades National Park, Corps of Engineers, and South Florida Water Management.

Prepare and process exempt government deeds, corrections of tax roll errors-in-fact, delinquent cutouts and property separations requested by the Tax Collector.

Review and take appropriate action on deeds and correspondence received from various outside sources requesting separations and groupings of real property; confer with attorneys and surveyors when discrepancies in legal description and/or chain of title appear; prepare realty change and access and update the GIS property layer to reflect the requested separation or grouping.

Use GIS parcel base map maintenance applications to plot complex metes and bounds to describe a parcel using coordinated geometry (COGO); create, cancel or re-activate folio numbers to update parcel polygons; add or delete annotations, such as lot/block numbers, dimensions and acreage for all parcels over one acre.

Review complex deeds to determine if deed is a straight or fee interest transfer or requires a separation or grouping of the legal description; notifies the district lead worker of type of action required and prepares appropriate realty change documents required to reflect correction of legal description and ownership of parcel on assessment roll and update GIS layers to reflect the change.

Assist various county departments, agencies, attorneys, developers and the public as required; compile necessary records for review with taxpayers and attorneys or agents; request field check through districts as required establishing location and condition of existing buildings; explain established legal provisions and department procedures as necessary, referring questionable problems to supervisor.

Maintain records and compiles necessary data.

Perform other related work as required.

KNOWLEDGES, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of the general principles, practices and procedures used in determining land and building values for assessment purposes.

Knowledge of Florida statutes and ordinances governing property assessments, exemptions and the tax collection process.

Knowledge of various types of legal instruments used to convey property titles.

Knowledge of automatic data processing equipment and graphic computer drawing techniques used in the maintenance of GIS property and zoning layers.

Knowledge of standard office rules, practices and procedures.

Ability to read and understand complex metes and bounds descriptions and locate property in property atlas, section maps and aerial photographs.

Ability to perform mathematical computations to determine area of lots, tracts and irregular parcels of land as they relate to complex legal descriptions and new plats.

Ability to follow established departmental procedures with a high degree of accuracy and appropriate attention to detail.

Ability to graphically portray parcel information onto section maps, subdivision plats and aerial photographs.

Ability to understand and follow complex verbal and written instructions.

Ability to operate automatic data processing equipment and use applicable graphic computer drawing techniques to maintain GIS property and zoning layers.

Ability to maintain rosters, logs, record cards and other records neatly and accurately.

Ability to assist in the processing of new subdivision plats in accordance with established department procedures.

Ability to understand and interpret zoning resolutions and ordinances.

Ability to work with minimal supervision and make minor decisions in accordance with office procedures and county and state statutes and regulations

Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with subordinates, superiors and officials of other public and private organizations.

NEW 04/02/2007