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HALL COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION MEETING MAY 19, 2015 9:05 a.m. Purdy made a motion and Lanfear seconded to go into a Board of Equalization meeting. ROLL CALL VOTE — Present on roll call vote were Scott Arnold, Pamela Lancaster, Douglas Lanfear, Daniel Purdy, Gary Quandt, Jane Richardson and Steve Schuppan. Also present were County Attorney Jack Zitterkopf, Board Assistant Stacey Ruzicka and County Assessor Jan Pelland. NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING LAW — Chairman Arnold read the notice of the open meeting law. MINUTES — Purdy made a motion and Lanfear seconded to approve the minutes of the May 5, 2015 meeting. Arnold, Lancaster, Lanfear, Purdy, Quandt, Richardson and Schuppan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION - Chairman Arnold called for public participation and no one responded. 1. COUNTY ASSESSOR - UPDATE ON 2016 PICTOMETRY FLIGHT PROJECT County Assessor Jan Pelland wanted to update the board regarding the 2016 flight the contract was signed for the 2013 flight and it is a 3 year schedule. She wanted to update the county board and would like to sign on the new flight schedule. She stated that they had a meeting last week and they are proposing to use a better resolution product that would be an additional $15,500.00 and the cost will be split between the city and the county. She explained that the better resolution will show more details and it will be used more. All of the parties agreed to use the higher resolution. Quandt noted that this is a lot of dollar and asked if it pays for itself. Jan stated that there is a lot of property that is unreported and they are now catching up. She stated that by using pictrometry in Cairo they did not have to raise values because of all of the changes. This is an amendment to the contract they just added the additional $15,500.00 fee. Mr. Zitterkopf stated that is not necessary to have a different contract they are just amending the additional cost. Lancaster it has advantages but she would have liked to have Casey present and expressed concern regarding the exact dollar amounts. Jan stated that she needs to get on the flight schedule. Discussion was held. 2. DISCUSS AND APPROVE AMENDMENT TO PROJECT COST - Lancaster made a motion and Lanfear seconded to approve the amendment to the pictometry contract and the additional fees. Mr. Schuppan stated that Casey will be at the meeting later.