Show rvp - : !: ''4 fomAl ' - The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday July 7 2002 — i produrt to recoup Its invest-- y men! Howell argued die soft-T®16 w“TvcloIS“ °Wy for wonto uumc She points to to the contract which - prooit was marketed to other V - It was never a joint mar-- SS£dcL5l7fr Gleedsaid However under the tenniof the 1997 contract signed by Union thecounty agreed to "assist in a limited and rca-sonabie manner with SMS’s (Smart Map Systems) market- ing efforts? In return the county woukl be entitled to “11 percent of thegross sale proceeds (not pro&s) collect-ed from isalra to counties situ- atedwithm the state of Utah” HoweU dismissed the interested in developing the " ftfgttenCWP?kyedldll0t being connected 1' r- -l “y oped for us That was our “kways" HoweU said bMromefvWfttibedT" cUusc "Mind you ness" that's all we gram was riddled with flaws Accordingly Box Elder Commissioner Seott Hansen the Ingeo program put his county at nsofnotbeine able to get its tax notices out on time “At present we're just about Mttine by "Hansen said Then why front the money to help develop the system? “Because there isn’t a pro-gram out there to buy” How- ell said “Every program Cache County has had we've wen going to get— ll)er-cent Now if you want to call that ‘Us marketing the sys- tern I think you’re sadly mis-taken” she emphasized “We were just merely to help coun- ties who called us and asked us questions lilTell us about the system’ ‘Does it work?’ We had no desire to market it lliat’s not our busi- - developed ourselves You can’t go buy one" Despite Howell's state- ments Box Elder County did buy tern uiunformetSutdu pro-- All ’ last month The two Counties are now blaming each other for the dismal state ofaffairs the system we couldn't retrieve property off the map as fast as we could if the GIS just stood atone” GLS currentIngeo’s system ly operates independent of the integrated system calling into question more than $400000 invested in its development ' The total cost of the integrated system was about $965000 However die GJS has other uses officials point out “We use it in the road department we use it in the planning department towns nave used pieces of it” County Assessor Kaddeen Howell - said Howell insists that the GIS system and the new tax roll package were not developed under the same contract “It’s (GIS) a necessary piece and it helps this (integrated system) work but it was developed under a separate contract with Ingeo”she emphasized The iGIS system according to Howell was an endeavor of die Cache County Council The counciThad given thought to the implementation of a GIS much before die idea of an integrated system was ever presented she said ” They were responding to Gov Mike Leavitt’s call for a statewide GIS” Howell ! added However the county’s 1997 contract with Ingeo (formerly Smart Map Systems LLC) a copy of wmen was made available to this paper describes the two projects as “an integrated Geographic Information System and r-assisted mass appraisal system” Howell maintains that the two jyqjects are separate as are me costs of development-- ' n Yet when asked to produce a statement of costs County Auditor Tunra Stones said that unless individual invoices were separately considered a breakdown of coats for the '" integrated system could not be easily obtained The cost for both the GIS and the accounting software stands at about $965000 Programming costs for the integrated system are estimated at approximately $563000 “Some of these (programming costs) pertain to GIS and We can’t break it down to a total” Stones said Glrod conceded that the integration of the GIS with die tax roll was otoe oflngeo’s key rolling points imptyihg that the projects were in fact ' compute- : 'connected “It didn’t turn out working ' ing the software “We've completed the : v requirements cd our contract : and now we’ve moved onto a different product line" Ingeo Marketing Vice President Cindy Yates told The Herald V Journal last month : VI GIS maps aside the new system is “excellent" Howell i :Vi But she wouldn’t recommend it to other counties :r “As we had our convendcms for the Utah Association of Counties Ingeo would buy Vboodi and they would be c ay' ' J fthfceo) scul to us : : 'm icidy toiMpnuMDdttyttT'fv'v We taid ’No not Quite vet!”'?' ' Inuyoase Howell mtnH'r believb marketing was part of the (fed with Ingeo Contrary to UmoQ’s sm''-'gestion diat die county had vV consideted marketing the : ' h -- y - 'rr-- (6 :yvry:: : JfligiUtfJ H v I vlif ’ O’ £ mt by x K J i stars LtMlsd to tfbdk marehandha la net tndudad onhandy Ji-1 r v m' MiNnCCnnNnMSQaGDMll i s J 'fV'-’- ' v::-sy'f- c s — J Jts niii lawi' V1' r & v N 7k ft "wfc A1 i ML"-- x1 ' “ ' ' J i ' r''K': juatfcwiiaaMtaiHiaiwaiiwiiinwswi0wia0iaiiproaaihiaNwlii6wiLaaQwBaiMcaiiSa' WlGaMyorPawiOaiO4'nyAMMriCwni— CaWwnainMl1Bwg WH-nDWiwrCw- X n ' ' ' y V ‘ ' v l M 'I -- : ’iiv i i w i i i V 'V ‘V "'i- - ' I f ' V'!v : ' " V ' ( |