News Archive
5/14/2013
Minot assessing information now online
Minot property information is now on the O'Donnell & Associates website. Minot recognizes the importance of making government information open and easy to access. Sharing assessing information is a good way to show that the Town operates openly.
5/14/2013
Shapleigh expands O'Donnell & Associates' role in assessing
In loving memory of Ruth Ham the staff at O'Donnell & Associates will proudly continue her work in Shapleigh tax assessing. She was an angel on earth. There is no doubt she will continue to guide us as we look to the heavens.
3/27/2013
Boothbay selects O'Donnell & Associates for digital mapping project
Boothbay has digital maps but the maps are many years out of date. The Town is contracting with O'Donnell & Associates to get caught up. The Boothbay digital mapping project will benefit Boothbay property owners and Town Departments like public safety, code enforcement, planning, public works, and assessing.
3/1/2013
Denis Berube continues to set an example for assessing professionals
O'Donnell & Associates appreciates being the beneficiary of Denis' extraordinary organizational skills for twenty years. Denis has been a hard worker his entire life. He preaches individual responsibility. He practices what he preaches every single day. Not everyone works on improving their skill set after twenty years on the job but he does. At he same time he is the ultimate team player. He makes his associates better. We thank him for all of this. We want people to know just how good a job he does.
12/10/2012
Temple selects O'Donnell & Associates for 2013 revaluation.
Temple will conduct the Town's first ever revaluation in 2013. O'Donnell & Associates will visit all Temple properties to establish new assessed values. The revaluation will utilize O'Donnell's computer assisted Maine assessing software.
9/26/2012
Gilead set for Revaluation in 2013
Gilead has selected O'Donnell & Associates for the Town's first full revaluation in over 30 years. The project will utilize O'Donnell assessing software. The revaluation will be completed by August 2013.
9/17/2012
Carlisle, MA tax mapping goes digital
Carlisle, MA has selected O'Donnell & Associates to develop digital tax maps utilizing data from the State of Massachusetts digital parcel project. O'Donnell has served Carlisle's tax mapping needs for 38 years.
8/21/2012
Mechanic Falls contracts with O'Donnell & Associates to update assessed values in 2013
Mechanic Falls has utilized O'Donnell & Associates for tax assessing for over ten years. The Town has contracted with O'Donnell to update assessed values as of April 1, 2013. The last time Mechanic Falls updated values was 2005.
8/10/2012
O'Donnell & Associates recognizes twenty years of enthusiastic hard work from Paul Binette
Even after 20 years of tax assessing Paul Binette always has a smile and an upbeat attitude. His positive demeanor is infectious. Paul has built himself into a knowledgeable and versatile professional. O'Donnell & Associates appreciates and applauds Paul's long service to the company.
8/9/2012
Rockport selects O'Donnell & Associates for assessing field work
Rockport Assessor Kerry Leichtman has some last minute field work for this year's tax commitment. He recognizes that O'Donnell & Associates has the experience and resources to get the work done. O'Donnell staff was on the job in less than a week's time.
6/25/2012
Chelsea approves revaluation funding
Chelsea has selected O'Donnell & Associates for its first ever professional revaluation. The program will be conducted with O'Donnell assessment software. Chelsea will be able to share assessing information online from the O'Donnell website when the revaluation is completed.
6/19/2012
Bridgton to offer assessing information online
Dawn Taft has worked with O'Donnell & Associates for years building a document library of assessing information. Real estate transfer tax forms, Tree growth applications, and many other related documents have been captured electronically and tied to the assessing database. Bridgton's property assessment information and many years' worth of related documents will be available to everyone through the O'Donnell website after Bridgton commits taxes this year.
6/15/2012
Turner selects O'Donnell & Associates for tax assessing work
Eva Leavitt, Turner Town Manager is very familiar with the contract assessing service model. Eva has established a framework for assessing that gets the work done. Turner saves money each and every year with this approach. O'Donnell & Associates is proud to be selected for Turner tax assesing work.
6/14/2012
Sebago to offer assessing information online
Michele Bukoveckas spends a lot of time at the front counter in the Sebago Town Office. She also has other work she has to do. People seeking assessing information will be glad to hear that Sebago will have assessing information online after taxes are committed this year. Michele and her coworkers will get more time for their other work.
5/16/2012
Woodstock to offer online assessing information
Woodstock, Maine is making tax assessment information available online when taxes are committed in 2012. Town Manager Vern Maxfield is confident that property owners will benefit from having easy access to their property assessment information.
5/16/2012
Boothbay selects O'Donnell & Associates for tax assessing work
Boothbay Town Manager Jim Chaousis has past experience with contract tax assessing. He knows it will work for Boothbay. O'Donnell & Associates has been chosen for Boothbay's tax assessing work through June 30, 2013.
9/8/2011
O'Donnell Associates & Cartographic Associates link websites
The companies have teamed up on behalf of mutual clients to link property assessing information on O'Donnell's website with parcel information in Cartographic's Query Manager OnLine. Linking assessing and tax map information is an innovative way for the companies to improve and simplify access to information for the Towns and general public.
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8/1/2011
Mechanic Falls to offer online assessing information
Town Manager John Hawley and Assessing Clerk Shirley Marquis recognize they have a small staff. The convenience of online assessing information for the public, coupled with the time savings for Town staff, will ease some of the pressure of work at the front counter. The Town will offer assessing information through O'Donnell's website starting sometime in August 2011.
7/1/2011
Wilton, Maine selects O'Donnell Associates for tax assessing and mapping
Wilton, Maine is O'Donnell's newest client. Paul Binette will act as the Town's appointed assessor for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. The Town joins many of the neighboring communities that rely on O'Donnell & Associates for tax assessment functions.
6/9/2011
North Yarmouth has completed a new digital tax map project
The Town of North Yarmouth now has new digital tax maps produced by O'Donnell & Associates. All map-lot references have been changed for 2011. The new maps and the 2011-2010 cross references are available on this website on the North Yarmouth data page.
3/10/2011
Minot will update assessed values in 2011
Minot has contracted with O'Donnell & Associates to update assessed values for April 1, 2011. The program utilizes O'Donnell assessment software that was first implemented in a 2003 revaluation. The 2011 program will include visits to improved properties. Minot has retained O'Donnell & Associates for tax mapping and/or tax assessing for 35 years.
2/1/2011
Maine Revenue Services contracts for Property Tax Manager rewrite
Maine Revenue Services (MRS) utilizes O'Donnell's Property Tax Manager software for tax billing and collections in the Unorganized Territory.
MRS recently contracted with O'Donnell Associates to have the software rewritten in a vb.net framework.
8/12/2010
Acton 2011 Equalization awarded to O'Donnell Associates
The program utilizes O'Donnell's assessment software. The Town will purchase the O'Donnell/Trio software interface from Harris Computer Systems. When the equalization is complete Acton intends to provide assessing information online through O'Donnell's online assessing service. The Town is also working on a document library that will be associated with the assessment database and available to the public through the online service.
6/17/2010
North Yarmouth approves new tax mapping project
North Yarmouth is having O'Donnell Associates recreate the Town's current digital tax maps. The old tax maps are all at a scale of 1" = 500'. The new maps will be at a scale of 1" = 100'. The new tax maps will vastly improve the usefulness of the tax maps. The project will also provide an up to date digital base map that will allow the Town to bring together and manage what have been individual mapping efforts.
4/13/2010
Poland votes funds for digital mapping/GIS work
The Town of Poland has authorized funding for digital mapping and the beginnings of a geographic information system. O'Donnell & Associates will compile materials from individual short term digital mapping efforts as well as existing paper maps. The project will produce the basic building blocks necessary for digital mapping and a geographic information system. The new mapping system will serve as a base for all the Town's departmental mapping needs.
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3/31/2010
Auburn City Manager and Assessor get resourceful
Faced with a labor shortage in the Assessing Office City Manager Glenn Aho and Assessor Renee LaChapelle have a creative solution. Auburn has approximately 1100 taxpayer lists to process. O'Donnell & Associates has experienced assessing staff. The company will assist the City with taxpayer list processing in 2010.
3/10/2010
Byron, Maine selects O'Donnell & Associates for tax assessing and new digital tax maps
The Town's first property tax maps will be in digital format. The Board of Selectmen/Assessors will conduct their own tax assessing and use O'Donnell Associates for professional guidance.
3/10/2010
Jay, Maine adds industrial assessing to O'Donnell & Associates service agreement
The Town of Jay has consolidated contract assessing services with O'Donnell & Associates. The Town will benefit from the company's ability to execute the work in a timely fashion. The company's knowledge of Maine tax increment financing districts, tax exemption, and tax reimbursement programs will help protect the Town's financial interests.
12/16/2009
Livermore Falls to contract with O'Donnell & Associates
Livermore Falls, Maine selects O'Donnell & Associates for tax assessing and tax mapping work starting in 2010
9/1/2009
Parsonsfield, Maine
Parsonsfield, ME contracts with O’Donnell & Associates for first professional revaluation in almost 20 years
9/1/2009
New Website!
O'Donnell & Associates launches online assessing information service for Jay, Naples, and North Yarmouth Maine. Try it out and tell us what you think.
