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a. Ratify and Authorize the Assessor to enter into an Annual Software Support Agreement with Tyler Technologies as of July 1, 2014; and
b. Direct the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign the 2014-15 Annual Software Support Agreement with Tyler Technologies; and
c. Accept non-standard County Liability and indemnification provisions as recommended by the Assessor.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
A. Ratify and Authorize the Assessor to enter into an Annual Software Support Agreement with Tyler Technologies as of July 1, 2014; and
B. Direct the Contracts/Purchasing Officer to sign the 2014-15 Annual Software Support Agreement with Tyler Technologies; and
C. Accept non-standard County Liability and indemnification provisions as recommended by the Assessor.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
On January 9, 2013, the Board approved the Assessor's request to enter into an agreement with Tyler Technologies for a residential computer aided mass appraisal system (CAMA). Tyler Technologies' Assessments Evaluation Services (AES) is a program that utilizes market driven heuristic rules that provide defendable results needed to satisfy homeowner inquiries and assessment appeals. The AES program provides valuation tools that have been developed to deal specifically with Decline-in-Value issues and Assessment Appeals in a legislative environment that is unique to California.
The Assessor's department has utilized this program with much success for over a year. We are now requesting that the Board approve the annual software support agreement as it is not the County's Standard Agreement and has non-standard County liability and indemnification provisions. The proposed Agreement contains limits to Tyler Technologies' indemnity and liability that are consistent with software support agreements in general and similar to those contained in the agreements that Tyler Technologies' has with other County entities within California. It is the...
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