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.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1998 <br /> Council next considered a report from Ms. Pat Conrad, City Treasurer, on her enhanced <br /> <br /> efforts to collect delinquent taxes. Ms. Conrad cited the various approaches and legal tools she <br /> would use to collect delinquent funds, including a series of notices, a Treasures Lien, a set-off debt <br /> program, cooperation with the Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure that they would deny <br /> registration of vehicles on which the Personal Property taxes had not been paid, denial of local <br /> decals, and even seizures of property and land sales to recover real estate taxes in the most <br /> extreme cases. Ms. Conrad also noted her ability to accomplish withholding of State Income Tax <br /> refunds and a contract with the Virginia Employment Commission to track and collect from <br /> people who move out of the City. She then noted that although she and her staff had greatly <br /> improved collection efforts there was still more than $. 5 million in delinquent taxes on the books <br /> in the City. Ms. Conrad also noted and discussed recent cost saving efforts in changes to the tax <br /> tickets sent out, and requested that citizens please give she and her staff feedback on this change. <br /> At Council Member Dallas' suggestion she provided a phone number of 656-5242 to which <br /> residents could call to offer their comments. Mayor Crabtree thanked Ms. Conrad for her report <br /> and her efforts to collect these funds. Council Member Roop also commended her efforts but <br /> reminded her that there was still a great deal of money in need of collection. Ms. Conrad noted <br /> that there was a great level of cooperation between her office and that of the City Manager, and <br /> thanked Mr. Reynolds. <br /> <br /> Council next heard Staff Reports from the Director of Finance, the Director of <br /> <br />· Management Information Systems and the Assistant City Manager. Mr. Wade Bartlett, Director <br />of Finance, and Ms. Esther Adams-Artis, MIS Director, reported on progress in acquiring a new <br />computer system and software to replace the current WANG mainframe system. They noted that <br />the Council had approved the replacement of the current system in the 1998-99 budget due to <br />masons such as the fact that the current system was not year 2000 compliant, was not set up to <br /> <br /> <br />