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2. RELATED SERVICES ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATION OF MISALLOCATIONS Secured Parcel Audits HdLCC has been auditing and monitoring property taxes for cities for 28 years. During that time we have recovered more than $92 million of net property tax revenue for our client agencies. Our ability to provide this service relies on information provided by county assessors, auditor -controllers and tax collectors. We have limited success auditing some counties, including Orange County, due to insufficient access to necessary data. We have described below the limitations we face in complying with the requirements of this request for proposal. Upon approval of the contract, HdLCC will perform an analysis of the Secured roll to identify all parcels on the secured tax roll and verify that parcel assessed valuations and the resulting taxes are correctly allocated to the City or Successor Agency. This analysis is accomplished through the use of specialized computer software, assessor maps, city maps, GIS maps, city records, other pertinent documents, and field investigations. The review will include the lien date secured data for the 2020-21 tax year as well as historical data back to the 2016-17 tax year after excluding previous audit misallocations identified by the City. HdLCC has the technology, methodology and trained staff to analyze all secured parcels within the City to identify costly errors resulting in the misallocation of property taxes. The Orange County Assessor, beginning in the 2004-05 fiscal year, has determined that the situs addresses on the secured tax roll are confidential information and has not included that field on the data available for purchase, HdLCC has been purchasing data from Orange County for 27 years and has been archiving situs address on properties during that time. Where a parcel number has not changed, HdLCC has updated the address from previous rolls to complete the database. If the parcels have been re -mapped and we can ascertain a direct relationship between the old and new parcel, we have updated the address. New parcels added since 2004-05 have addresses updated from other data sources making the percentage of situs addresses available in Santa Ana 97% on the secured roll. Page 114