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From YouTube: FY2019 Budget Hearing - Councilman Oh Questions the Office of Property Assessment 4-4-2018
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From the FY2019 Budget Hearing held Wednesday, April 4, 2018:
Councilman David Oh (At Large) questions representatives from the Office of Property Assessment.
A
Know
you
know
I
had
the
opportunity
to
meet
with
you
yesterday
and
go
over
a
lot
of
things.
So
it's
not
so
much
questioning
as
I
just
want
to
point
out
again
but
publicly.
My
concerns
about
this
process
and
I
welcome
your
input
because
you
kind
of
know
what
my
concerns
are
so
I
understand.
There
are
sections
of
the
city
where
the
taxes
are
not
going
up
section
of
the
city
where
the
taxes
are
going
down.
That
that's
not
my
concern.
A
My
concern
is
that
there
are
sections
of
the
city
where
we
expect
the
taxes
to
go
up.
They
are
building
one
point:
two
million
dollar
condominiums
there
they're
building
new
homes
for
$800,000,
they're,
highly
desirable,
Center
City
locations,
those
types
of
things
understood.
The
question
is:
when
properties
that
we
do
not
expect
to
receive.
A
These
high
increases
are
receiving
high
increases
and
continually
so
over
the
last
five
years,
and
so
I'd
like
to
focus
a
little
bit
on
the
Baltimore
Avenue
area
around
48th
49th,
you
and
I
are
both
very
familiar
with
it,
and
my
concern
is
this:
that
a
home
that
has
been
on
the
market
at
like
80,000
for
for
for
20
years
that
has
had
no
improvements,
is
now
being
a
pray,
a
assess
at
450
500,000
because
of
sale
price.
But
what's
what
what
I
don't
see
in?
A
That
is
a
person
who's
lived
there
who
may
be
retired
or
have
a
working
class
job?
They
live
there.
They
pay
their
taxes,
they
take
care
of
the
home.
Somebody
else
who
comes
in
who
received
the
benefits
that
University
of
Penn
offers
for
living.
In
that
gee
graphic
area,
Penn,
Alexander
school.
They
don't
pay
tuition.
A
If
their
kids
go
to
University
of
Penn,
they
have
different
loan
programs
and
other
things
is
an
incentive,
along
with
the
ten
year
tax
abatement
for
them
to
go
and
pay
a
much
higher
price
for
the
location
put
in
a
large
investment
to
improve
that
house
better
than
anybody
else's
house
and
that
total
cost
raises
in
some
way
possibly
raises.
If
enough
people
continue
to
do
this.
The
assessment
on
everybody
else's
house
and
some
of
the
people
who
are
purchasing
the
homes
can
also
be
a
member
and
an
exclusive,
or
at
least
a
pretty.
A
I'd
say
expensive,
private
club
in
the
area.
This
is
not
an
amenity
available
to
the
the
current
residence
and
and
so
assessing
the
home
based
on
the
sale
price
of
new
people
coming
in,
who
have
benefits
that
are
not
available
to
everyone
in
the
neighborhood.
To
me
is
not
an
accurate
way
of
assessing
the
actual
value
of
the
residence
and
I
can
also
look
at
development
close
to
really
desirable
locations,
and
the
fact
that
the
investment
will
then
affect
a
neighboring
blocks.
A
B
I'll
try
to
address
some
of
your
last
questions.
First,
the
software
that
we're
looking
to
have
implemented
sometime
within
the
next
couple
years
that
will
be
in
use
for
some
parts
of
the
2021
assessment
is
going
to
bring
many
benefits
to
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
and
you
mentioned
automation,
but
that's
just
one:
okay,
better
data
integrity,
better
evaluation
processes
in
general,
quicker
response
between
decisions
that
happen
on
our
side
on
appeals
board
side
between
the
time
the
decisions
are
made
and
the
time
a
taxpayer
gets
a
new
tax
bill.
B
What
we're
looking
for,
probably
more
than
anything,
is
to
not
have
to
use
multiple
databases-
okay,
but
and
it's
going
to
increase
the
efficiency
of
what
we
do.
In
fact,
it's
going
to
make
many
of
the
processes
that
we
use
right
now
redundant
or
unnecessary
altogether,
but
it
doesn't
mean,
however,
that
we
need
and
continue
to
do,
reassessments
every
year
and
in
fact,
I'll
just
kind
of
go
back
to
some
council
presidents,
Clark's.
B
First
questions
about
the
increase
of
11%
overall
I'm
speaking
to
the
idea
that
the
more
frequently
which
is
what
we've
been
saying
the
more
frequently
we
do.
These,
if
we
do
them
annually,
we
don't
expect
the
change
and
I'll
say
change,
because
we
don't
know
how
it's
going
to
come
out.
The
market
could
take
it
down
turn
typically
real
estate
markets
go
up
over
time,
but
the
change
will
not
be
as
drastic
because
we're
keeping
tabs
on
it.
B
So
the
the
anxiety
that's
produced
in
taxpayers
I
think
we
probably
agree
on
that,
and
that
is
the
drastic
changes
that
take
place
and
particularly-
and
you
mentioned
some
neighborhoods,
where
there's
more
drastic
changes
than
others.
So,
just
to
kind
of
speak
to
that-
and
you
mentioned
some
areas
where
they
expect
to
see
increases
in
some
areas
where
they
don't
I
can
only
say
that
I
mean
we
do
understand
that
there's
a
difference
between
what
we
define
as
value,
meaning,
something
that
is
a
good
thing.
B
B
We
are
responsible
for
trying
to
make
sure
that
the
assessment
is
tied
as
close
as
possible
to
the
market
and
that's
what
we're
tasked
with
doing
right
now
and
I
think
we've
been
doing
it
better,
we're
not
perfect,
and
with
five
hundred
and
eighty
thousand
parcels
we
will
never
be
exactly
perfect.
We'll
have
some
properties
that
we'll
get
wrong
and
we'll
correct
them
as
we
see,
but
overall
the
assessments
in
general
I
think
are
getting
better
every
year.
Okay,.
A
But
their
house
property
has
been
increased
because
of
neighboring
properties.
As
I
said,
some
people
have
certain
benefits
that
because
of
where
their
employee
that
don't
apply
to
the
the
rest
of
the
the
folks
in
the
neighborhood
I,
don't
see
that
as
an
accurate
process-
and
you
know
I
have
spoken
to
some
people
in
the
administration.
My
second
point
is:
what
is
the
policy?
What
what
if?
A
In
fact,
the
properties
are
assessed
at
a
higher
rate,
but
the
people
cannot
afford
to
pay
that
rate
and
they
have
to
do
reverse
mortgages
or
they
have
to
plan
on
leaving
the
community
and
they
can't
find
a
home
to
purchase
based
on
the
fact
that
they've
inherited
the
home
that
they
live
in.
The
policy
issue,
then,
would
be
that
you're
you're
you're
pushing
out
residents
Philadelphians
from
their
neighborhoods,
where
they
live
their
families
and
and
they
have
their
all
their
connections
it
to
being
dispersed.
A
C
This
goes
back
to
the
questions
that
councilman
Johnson
was
asking,
and
we
told
him
we
would
put
together
a
document
that
summarizes
all
the
things
we're
doing
to
help
homeowners,
tax
relief
programs,
housing
counseling,
the
the
homestead
exemption,
so
we'll
put
that
together
and
we'll
share
that
with
Council.
Thank.