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through legislated ERAF, cities, counties, agencies and special districts have been focusing on ways to increase the limited resources already stretched thin. The unsecured roll contains property owners which, when matched with a business license data set can be used to identify escaping revenues. For instance, property leased to businesses in your jurisdiction is taxed to the lessor of the property. We find that frequently, the lessors are not properly registered with a city business license. When notified and properly licensed, these businesses will generate additional revenue for the City. The use of the secured roll will assist in identifying owners of rented residential, commercial, or industrial properties that do not have a business license with the City should one be required. DELINQUENCY RECOVERY AND PREVENTION The City is requesting that the contractor provide additional assistance as necessary to support the City in recovering and preventing tax delinquencies. Santa Ana is one of 7 cities in Orange County participating in the Teeter Plan. This means that the City is guaranteed receipt of 100% of the taxes billed within the City and have agreed to forego the allocation of penalties and interest receipts on delinquent accounts in order to receive all revenues due each year. There are no delinquencies to be monitored. COMBINED GEO/GIS BASED REVENUE INFORMATION APPLICATION The City has asked that this database include Documentary Stamp Tax DTT/RETT information aggregated by City of Santa Ana assessor's parcel number (APN)/situs address. This information is not provided as a data field in the assessor's data available for purchase. While there are secondary data sources that may include this information, the correctness is often questionable. Short of pulling the deed for each transaction, the best source of the information may be the monthly or quarterly report received by the City as a backup to the DTT collection that is allocated. If the purpose of this request is to audit the revenue allocated as collected in sales transactions, our experience is that many counties will not make a change or a redistribution of an error involving a short collection without the escrow or title company returning to their client, collecting the correct amount and re -filing the deed for the sale transaction. If the City provides the Page 116