This paper examines the benefits and challenges to aerial imagery project costs sharing between property assessment and other local government agencies such as First Responders and GIS. Best practices and successful project profiles are included.

1. International Property Tax Institute
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6TH MASS APPRAISAL VALUATION
SYMPOSIUM
Keeping Pace with Tomorrow New Directions for Data
Collection, Knowledgethe Success of Finding Valuation
An Examination of Management and Mass Other
Government Agencies to Share Costs of Oblique Capture
October 5th-6th, 2011
Robert Carroll and Alexander Hepp
University of British Columbia Robson Square
800 Robson Street (Downtown Corp.
Pictometry International Campus) Property Tax Institute
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Institut international de la fiscalité immobilière
Vancouver, BC, Canada

2. Overview
 What is Cost Sharing
 Why use Cost Sharing
 Cost Sharing Models
 Best Practices
 Importance of Business Case/ROI
 Common Cost Sharing Sources
 Lessons Learned
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3. What is Project Cost Sharing?
 Formalized plan to spread project costs
across a larger funding base.
 Intra-jurisdictional
 i.e. County Assessor and Emergency
Dispatch
 Extra-jurisdictional
 i.e. Provincial Assessment Agency and
Municipalities
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4. Why Use Cooperative Project Funding?
 Austere budgets
 Political interest to reduce size of government
 Benefits of Spatial Data realized outside of
department:
 Most government information has geographic dimension
(i.e. street address, parcel, river, municipal boundary)
 Value of GIS and data seen in other dept. like economic
development, public safety, and planning
 Reduce redundancy/duplication of effort
 Majority of GIS cost tied to spatial data (collection,
distributing, storing).
 These activities can be centralized with broad
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5. Project Cost Sharing Models
 Mandatory vs. Voluntary
 Upfront funding
 Charge-back (service-level or
transaction)
 Stone Soup approach
 Goodwill
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6. Project Cost Sharing Best Practices
 Establish clear department objectives/requirements
 Pre-project Evaluation Plan
 Demonstrate value of oblique imagery to others (cost-benefit
analysis, case studies)
 Identify barriers to sharing and potential solutions
 Awareness of Oblique Imagery
 Fit for purpose
 Policies for data ownership, access, maintenance, support, and liability
 Incentives for sharing
 Current tools and guidelines
 Senior-level leadership and project champion
 Evaluate Deployment Methods and Infrastructure
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7. Importance of ROI
 Business Case justifies the project investment
with business results.
 ROI measures the benefit from the project
investments by business results.
 Factors to evaluate in Business Case:
 Investment has value and importance
 Project is properly managed
 Team has capability to deliver expected benefits
 Resources invested into high reward
 Inter-dependencies are defined/scheduled
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8. Example of Business Case from
PVSC (Nova Scotia, Canada)
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9. Example 2 of Business Case from
PVSC (Nova Scotia, Canada)
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10. Example 3 of Business Case from
PVSC (Nova Scotia, Canada)
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11. Common Cost Sharing Sources
 Intra-organizational
 Common practice in US counties
 Departments like Public Safety, Planning,
etc.
 Extra-government
 Common practice in Canada Provincial
Agencies and Municipalities
 PVSC support up to 55 municipalities through
Pictometry server
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12. Example of Intra-Organization Sharing
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Tax-tool-aiding-local-law-
enforcement-128488018.html
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13. Lessons Learned
 Establish Steering Committee
 Clarify roles and responsibility
 Recruit Project Champion and
Leadership buy-in
 Evaluate Partners’ Fit for Purpose
 Confirm Partners capabilities
 Document data policies (ownership,
usage, support, sharing)
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14. Q&A
Rob.Carroll@Pictometry.ca +1(647)933-2747
Alex.Hepp@Pictometry.com +1 (609) 978-7050
www.Pictometry.ca International Property Tax Institute