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M <br />• One floating management position — to support difficult questions /situations and provide <br />overall management for resident staff, rotating management positions will include: Tax <br />Administrator, Deputy Tax Assessor, Personal Property Appraisal Manager, Chief <br />Appraiser and Administrative Officer, each rotating one day per week. <br />Office Space <br />Four work stations at Town Hall would be needed for this arrangement. The four work stations <br />would be occupied at all times unless one were to be out sick or on vacation. It also is <br />recommended that the property tax assessment staff at Town Hall have access to a conference <br />room as needed. Meetings occur often, and taxpayers sometimes request a private setting to <br />discuss details of their situation confidentially. Such occurrences could be, and often are, <br />impromptu in nature. <br />As the tax office will be allocating only property tax assessment staff, and since the Town <br />already carries out the property tax collection function, this proposal suggests that collection <br />functions continue exclusively under the Town's direction at Town Hall. Only property tax <br />assessment staff will be present at Town Hall and will not be able to assist in collection <br />functions, i.e. receiving property tax payments. Of course, property tax assessment staff will be <br />present to answer questions of taxpayers coming into the office, but these positions will be <br />unable to assist in directly collecting revenue. <br />SUMMARY <br />Supplementing the current practice of property tax collection in Chapel Hill with property tax <br />assessment services, we feel, will have a positive effect on intergovernmental relations. It co- <br />locates departments that routinely work closely together and creates an environment that should <br />improve accuracy in data transmittal and tax records. Additionally, it affords southern Orange <br />County residents a convenient option of not only paying taxes, but to ask questions of the tax <br />assessment process, annual forms to be filed and property tax assistance programs. <br />