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,Y Property Appraiser IlEffi Departmental Structure and Functions y The Indian River County Property Appraiser currently employs approximately fifty full-time staff, including six in GIS and Mapping and three in Information Technology. To effectively achieve its objectives, The Department consists of five main divisions, including : • Tangible (or personal ) Property ' a Real Property • Assessment Control GIS and Mapping • IT Key responsibilities of the Property Appraiser include producing a tax roll and property assessments . Tax parcels for the county are maintained in an ESRI Geodatabase and are maintained and updated regularly . Another important role is to establish a value for all property for tax purposes . The Assessor is required by law to set the property value and to assure that all values are in equalization . The mission of the Property Appraiser is to maintain an equitable, fair, and uniform system to all citizens of Indian River County . At the some time , the Property Appraiser must meet all w constitutional and statutory requirements and provide an optimal level of service , information and policy guidance to the public and to other governmental agencies . M A parcel layer and other associated layers are maintained by a GIS Mapping Coordinator and four GIS mappers in a SDE geodatabase storage format . The parcels layer is crucial for a successful Countywide GIS implementation effort . As the County moves forward with its GIS implementation , various spatial and non-spatial information managed by the Property Appraiser, will become increasingly integral to helping the County achieve its technology goals . The majority of GIS users in the Property Appraiser will be Tier 3 GIS Users ; however, some GIS use within the Department will involve more complex mapping and analysis, such as that of Tier 1 and Tier 2 GIS Users . Tier 1 GIS application use is already demonstrated by the GIS Mapping Coordinator and GIS Mappers . ( See Chapter 2: GIS Organizational Structure and Staffing for more information on Tier 1 , Tier 2 & Tier 3 GIS Users ) . "JgExisting Hardware and Software At present, approximately 50 PCs are being used by Office staff. There are also ten laptops for use by field appraisers . All computers are running Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating systems and have access to the County network . The Office also maintains Servers operating on IBM AS /400, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 . The Department uses the following software packages at various capacities . GIS Software 1 . ArcGIS 9 2 . ArcReader 9 3 . ArcSDE 9 4. Oracle 9i Client ( for accessing ArcSDE geodatabase only) 158 GIS Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan Chapter 1 - Departmental GIS Needs Assessment