2016 Spring newsletter

ANNUAL CONFERENCE RECAP The 2016-2017 FCIAAO year was officially kicked off in St. Petersburg, FL April 13-15 during the Annual Conference. With over 200 in attendance and 19 different vendors, we enjoyed a packed, educational week! Prior to the conference, we offered two educational workshops: IAAO155, Depreciation Analysis, taught by Pat Alesandrini and ESRI ArcGIS Fundamentals, provided by Panda Con- sulting. Our goal is to promote education in all areas. If you are interested in a specific course or topic, please let us know . The Honorable Pam Dubov welcomed attendees to Pinellas County, where she is currently serving as Property Appraiser. It was great to see her at a Chapter event one last time before she retires and begins the next chapter in her life. We were also lucky enough to have the IAAO President Pete Rodda attend and provide an update on IAAO. They have some excit- ing things going on and Pete encouraged everyone to check out IAAO’s Vision 2020 to learn more about the future and goals of the association. After informative presentations from the DOR and an update on Florida’s Real Estate market, Pat Alesandrini demonstrated the new statewide sales database. A project long in the works, FCIAAO was lucky enough to receive the help of talented staff from Hillsborough County to make this vision come alive. To learn more about this database, check out Pat’s accompa- nying presentation on the Chapter website . Tracy Drake ended the day with an Awards Presentation. Florida won several awards at the 2015 IAAO Conference in Indianapolis and these recipients were recognized. The Tony Hodge awards were given to eight attendees. Michael Chaves presented each with an award and $500 check. Later that evening, a Welcome Reception was held poolside, cour- tesy of our Platinum sponsor Thomson Reuters. Thursday’s educational tracks were broken into Real Estate, Exemptions and IT/GIS. The Steer- ing Committees for each of these tracks did an excellent job in securing great presenters and current, important topics. If you were unable to attend, copies of the presentations can be found on our website . Thursday evening kicked off with a reception before entering the banquet room where a photobooth was set up and sponsored by LexisNexis. Following a dinner buffet, the Annual Business Meeting began and featured the Installation of the 2016-2017 FCIAAO Executive Board. To end the evening, the Magic Mirror Band performed for several hours. Lead by Jack Henriquez, brother of the Honorable Bob Henriquez, and they were a huge hit! If you missed out on them, they will be performing again at IAAO’s conference in Tampa this year. The conference ended Friday, after a networking breakfast and legal and legislative up- dates. If you missed this year’s conference, we hope you can join us for our 30th Conference April 26-28, 2017 in Hutchinson Island. Be sure to stay tuned to our website for registration de- tails!