Wisconsin Land Information Board 2001 Strategic Initiative Grants: Tax Parcel Assessment Data on the Web J. Michael Blaska Wisconsin Department of Administration Office of Land Information Services

Wisconsin State Biennial Budget process, 2001 Wisconsin Act 16, enacted legislation:  To support technological developments and improvements for the purpose of providing Internet–accessible housing assessment and sales data, Wis. Stat (7)(a)(5); ... $1 of each $5 fee retained under this paragraph to develop and maintain a computerized indexing of the county’s land information records relating to housing, including the housing element of the county’s land use plan under s (2)(b), in a manner that would allow for greater public access via the Internet, Wis. Stat (5)(b)(3);s (2)(b)Wis. Stat (5)(b)(3); Legislation, Background and Purpose

WLIB empanelled Ad Hoc Committee on Strategic Initiatives to consider feasibility of implementing the intent of the legislation. Purpose: To provide support for developing internet- accessible housing assessment and sales data, and related activities. WLIB identified and prioritized certain activities as eligible project expenditures for this funding cycle and category. Legislation, Background and Purpose

$1,796,885 Total Available Contribution-Based Land Information Systems Base Budget Training and Education $566,816 Strategic Initiative Grant Funds Available For 2001

igible Projects: Component A - Publication of County/Municipal Parcel Assessment and Tax Data on the Internet Component B - Creation/Update of County Web Sites Offering Land Information Component C - Publication of Other Parcel-Related Data on County/Municipal Web Sites Component APublication of County/Municipal Parcel Assessment and Tax Data on the Internet. Component BCreation/Update of County Web Sites Offering Land Information. Component CPublication of Other Parcel-Related Data on County/Municipal Web Sites. Eligible Activities

First Priority: Component A - Publication of County/Municipal Parcel Assessment and Tax Data on the Internet. Priority Initiative -- Intent to develop Master Statewide Index of Tax Parcels and related basic property tax information commonly printed on property tax bills. Standard Publication File Layout to be populated with local data, and standard publication file layout designed. Eligible Activities

First Priority: Component A - Publication of County/Municipal Parcel Assessment and Tax Data on the Internet. Covers conversion of existing data only State Portal used to transmit local information for incorporation into Master Statewide Index of Tax Parcel Information accessible via the internet – XML data format preferred Custodian of data given password for annual or more frequent updates Eligible Activities

First Priority: Component A - Publication of County/Municipal Parcel Assessment and Tax Data on the Internet Standard browser application being developed by Wisconsin Department of E-Government Searches by Land Owner Name, Site Address, Section- Township-Range, Tax Parcel Number Data Base Not Downloadable Any requests for digital data directed to appropriate county or municipality Eligible Activities

Second Priority: Component B - Creation/Update of County Web Sites for Land Information $1800 available per county for software and hardware to create web sites Counties with existing web sites eligible to apply to update web site to distribute additional land information and to enhance existing land information server functionality Counties with limited or no web presence given priority Funding subject to total dollar amount of grant requests received and availability of funds Eligible Activities

Third Priority: Component C - Publication of Other Parcel-Related Data on County/Municipal Web Sites. Capped at $10,000 Funding subject to total grant requests received and availability of funds Eligible costs include staff or contractor time to prepare and web-enable data, purchase of software to publish data, enhance the content of existing web sites or conduct related activities Priority to fund internet posting of data first, and secondly, data development for Internet posting Eligible Activities

Third Priority: Component C - Publication of Other Parcel-Related Data on County/Municipal Web Sites. No priority of order is intended Assessment Card Data/Housing Sales Data Land Use Code, Zoning Code or School District Code data Treasurers Tax Parcel Payment Status Register of Deeds Grantor/Grantee Data Images of Register of Deeds Recorded Documents Register of Deeds Tract Index GIS Parcel Data Sets Other Data Necessary to Complete the Housing Element of a Comprehensive Land Use Plan, i.e., characteristics related to housing demand, age, structural, value and occupancy Development of Data corresponding to the fields appearing in the standard publication file layout Eligible Activities

Data Development Legislation Access via Internet Land Information Program Evolves

Focus of the Strategic Initiative is to provide access to land records and housing data on the Internet with Statewide participation Cross boundary data searches Access by all counties and municipalities to other county and municipal land information Access by landowners, surveyors, realtors, engineers, appraisers and the general public, to parcel assessment and tax data on the Internet any time day or night Opportunities

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