2006 Annual Report - Los Angeles County Assessor

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DEPARTMENTAL AND EMPLOYEE AWARDSEmployee Suggestion AwardsThe Employee Suggestion Awards Program (ESAP) is a countywide program that promotesquality, efficiency, effectiveness, and economy in County government. Employees arestrongly encouraged to submit suggestions, which can result in various awards such as cash,United States Savings Bonds, and/or Certificates of Commendation.Scott ThornberrySupervising Appraiser, Special ProjectsRoy CossioSupervising Appraiser, East DistrictOffice“Work Flow”Scott and Roy designed a programto eliminate manually createdtimesheets, inventory, and productionreports. As a result, the East DistrictOffice saved $7,000 during theprogram’s implementation.OTHER WINNERS:Yvonne AustinAssistant Property Assessment Specialist,Legal Services“Property Owners Declaration”Debi Rosas and Patricia HuntHead Clerk and Senior Clerk, LancasterRegional Office“Industrial and Commercial CondoDesignation”Celebrating Innovation: The County’s Best and Brightest!19th Annual L.A. County Productivity andQuality AwardsTop Row: Jaclyn Tilley Hill, Chair of L.A. County Quality & Productivity Commission;Rick Auerbach, Los Angeles County Assessor; Phil Vialpando; Michael D. Antonovich,Mayor, Board of Supervisors; Renan Hidalgo; David Janssen, Chief AdministrativeOfficerBottom Row: Mayra Ortega; Joan Cameron; Henry Ou; Judy Chao; Bonnie Oliver,Assistant Assessor; Renard LouisThe Los Angeles County Productivity and QualityAwards Program recognizes County employeesand departments for their achievementsin improving quality and productivity,generating cost savings, implementing orimproving processes, and establishing beneficialcollaborations. In 2005, the Assessor’s Officewas honored by the County’s Quality andProductivity Commission, with three of thetop annual awards issued by the commission toCounty departments:Top Ten Award plus the PersonalBest Award and the ProductivityEnhancement Award for theAutomatic Quality Check of DeedProcessing program (AQC program)Appraiser Specialist I, Phil Vialpando, developeda program to improve the method in which real property deeds are quality checked. Within one and a halfyears of its implementation, the AQC program processed over 400,000 deeds, eliminated over 25,000 processinghours, and produced an estimated savings of over $516,000.22
Kenneth P. Hahn1990-2000John J. Lynch1986-1990ASSESSORSAlexander Pope1978-1986Philip E. Watson1963-1977John R. Quinn1938-1962E.W. Hopkins1910-1938Calvin Hartwell1906-1910Benjamin E. Ward1902-1906Alexander Goldwell1898-1901Theodore Summerland1894-1898F. Edward Gray1891-1893C.C. Mason1887-1891R. Bilderrain1883-1886J.W. Venable1880-1882A.W. Ryan1876-1879D. Botiller1870-1875M.F. Coronel1868-1869J.Q.A. Stanley1866-1867G.L. Mix1863-1865James McManus1862Rick Auerbach2000-Rick Auerbach is the 24 th Assessor of Los Angeles County, having been electedthree times to office after his appointment by the Board of Supervisors in 2000.The primary focus of his administration has been to combine the latesttechnology, including extensive use of an Internet website, with a balancedemphasis on traditional public service for a constituency of ten million Countyresidents. He leads the largest property assessment agency in the nation with 2.6million assessments and 1,500 employees.His continuing improvements in website operations range from the creation ofa supplemental tax estimator and expansion of written and video information invarious languages to taking the lead in forming a new multi-department websitefor property tax-related agencies.He also serves as the 2006 President of the California Assessors’ Association,as well as being a member of the Society of Auditor-Appraisers and theInternational Association of Assessing Officers.His career spans 36 years, beginning as a Personal Property Appraiser. He hasserved as Assistant Assessor and as the department’s liaison to the CaliforniaLegislature and the State Board of Equalization.Assessor Auerbach graduated from California State University, Los Angeles,with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Finance andcompleted over 50 units of graduate work in Accounting and Management.W.W. Maxy1859-1861Juan Maria Sepulveda1857-1858A.F. Coronel1850–1856Many Assessor employees have 30 years of service, but two elected Assessors also servedunusually long terms: E. W. Hopkins held office for 28 years from 1910-1938,and John R. Quinn served 24 years from 1938-1962.23
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