Residential and vacant parcel surveying as part of a county-wide property tax reassessment is about 20 percent complete.

Sarah Garner with Vision Government Solutions provided an update to the county commissioners during Wednesday’s meeting.

Garner said data collectors are currently visiting residential and vacant parcels.

The effort started in the City of Warren and, Garner explained, shifted into rural municipalities as collectors gathered more experience and while the weather is good in the summer and fall.

Southwest and Eldred townships are complete and data collectors are currently in Spring Creek Township. Columbus will follow next week with Bear Lake and Freehold Township to follow.

Garner said Vision will go “back to those districts to pick up commercial properties later in the project.”

She told the commissioners that they are on track and currently hiring additional data collectors.

Commissioner Ben Kafferlin asked when they project the final parcel to be evaluated and Garner said that should be in Sept. or Oct. of next year.

Commissioner Tricia Durbin said the update was aimed to “give good, transparent information about where we are.”

Grant request

The commissioners also approved a request to the state Department of Community and Economic Development for funding to continue to enhance the county’s emergency radio project.

Kafferlin said this stems from participation several years ago in the state Early Intervention Program which “enabled us to go for multiple phases of funding.”

This round — $36,000 with the county contributing 10 percent is “probably the last bit of this apple that we get to take.”

Kafferlin said there are still a couple “dead spots” in Sugar Grove and Tidioute as well as concerns with the efficacy of the county’s paging system.

These funds, he said, would be used to perform the engineering work needed to identify a plan for “how we take the 911 system to the next level.”