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<br />When it comes to the practice of assigning work to zone appraisers and the issue of staff <br />appraisers living within a particular zone, the other counties within the state of Hawai‘i <br />have the same issues, and they utilize the same checks and balances that we do. It is <br />common for staff, as is the case with all workers, to live near work, and in our case the <br />County buildings are both located within these zones under petition. In Insert 5 I have <br />included the location of all of the real property appraisers, as well as myself and the <br />administrator, that own property or have spouses that own property or their dependent <br />children. As you can see, the concentration is within the North Kona and South Hilo <br />areas, which are the two zones that the two ladies under petition live and own their <br />property. <br /> <br />A secondary analysis is completed annually of parcels owned by real property staff, from <br />our entry-level clerk to the administrator himself. So not only are the appraisers looked <br />at, but every single one of our staff members are looked at. Because the question last <br />month was mostly on appraisers, I didn’t include the entire staff on this chart. <br /> <br />The recommendation for the land value is the only component of value that appraisers <br />can potentially affect. It must be repeated that submitted recommendations are <br />reviewed by Real Property administration and compared to actual sales for a <br />neighborhood. And that goes back to these pages, where they have to provide us with <br />sales to support any change. And if there are no sales, I need to see the relative areas <br />that also do not reflect a change is supported. This is one small part of a multi-step <br />valuation process. And what we have included here is from IAAO, and this is the course <br />300 that was just taught to all of our appraisers. There is one appraiser that was unable <br />to take the class because he started after this date. The land value analysis is <br />highlighted on the top, and the main takeaway from this is this is our whole process. <br />This portion is just this piece here. <br /> <br />Thank you very much for your time. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Are there any questions? <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: I have a couple questions, if I could. If I’m understanding what you said, <br />then is it your position that the mass appraisal process does not represent, then—as you <br />show on your last chart here, the land value analysis piece of that, that little block is just <br />one small element of the eventual appraisal process? <br /> <br />MS. NAHOOPII: In the mass appraisal, yes. <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: In the mass appraisal piece, right. So would your position be then that <br />really it’s only a fee appraisal that would be in violation of the Code of Ethics policies--it’s <br />virtually impossible for the mass appraisal to represent a violation? <br /> <br />MS. NAHOOPII: I don’t know if I can answer that. <br />9 <br /> <br />