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through legislated ERAF, cities, counties, agencies and special districts have been <br />focusing on ways to increase the limited resources already stretched thin. The unsecured <br />roll contains property owners which, when matched with a business license data set can <br />be used to identify escaping revenues. For instance, property leased to businesses in <br />your jurisdiction is taxed to the lessor of the property. We find that frequently, the lessors <br />are not properly registered with a city business license. When notified and properly <br />licensed, these businesses will generate additional revenue for the City. <br />The use of the secured roll will assist in identifying owners of rented residential, <br />commercial, or industrial properties that do not have a business license with the City <br />should one be required. <br />DELINQUENCY RECOVERY AND PREVENTION <br />The City is requesting that the contractor provide additional assistance as necessary to <br />support the City in recovering and preventing tax delinquencies. Santa Ana is one of 7 <br />cities in Orange County participating in the Teeter Plan. This means that the City is <br />guaranteed receipt of 100% of the taxes billed within the City and have agreed to forego <br />the allocation of penalties and interest receipts on delinquent accounts in order to receive <br />all revenues due each year. There are no delinquencies to be monitored. <br />COMBINED GEO/GIS BASED REVENUE INFORMATION APPLICATION <br />The City has asked that this database include Documentary Stamp Tax DTT/RETT <br />information aggregated by City of Santa Ana assessor's parcel number (APN)/situs <br />address. This information is not provided as a data field in the assessor's data available <br />for purchase. While there are secondary data sources that may include this information, <br />the correctness is often questionable. Short of pulling the deed for each transaction, the <br />best source of the information may be the monthly or quarterly report received by the <br />City as a backup to the DTT collection that is allocated. If the purpose of this request is <br />to audit the revenue allocated as collected in sales transactions, our experience is that <br />many counties will not make a change or a redistribution of an error involving a short <br />collection without the escrow or title company returning to their client, collecting the <br />correct amount and re -filing the deed for the sale transaction. If the City provides the <br />Page 1 16 <br />