PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Winter 2014 Newsletter of the FCIAAO
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2013-2014 FCIAAO
EXECUTIVE BOARD
PRESIDENT
Neil “Nick” Nikkinen, AAS, CFE
Real Estate Assessment Dep. Director
Orange County
VICE PRESIDENT
Alice Weinberg
Community Service Director
Seminole County
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VICE PRESIDENT
Todd Finlayson, CFE
Director of TPP
St. Lucie County
TREASURER
Doug Will, AAS, CFE
Chief Deputy
Leon County
SECRETARY
Brian Loughrey, CFE
Administrative Director
Sarasota County
MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR
Katie Casey, CFE
Senior Projects Administrator
Seminole County
DIRECTOR
Justin Edwards, CFE
Office Operations Supervisor
Putnam County
DIRECTOR
Tracy Drake, CAE, RES, AAS, CFE
Assistant Property Appraiser
Clay County
DIRECTOR
Marsha Coleman, CFE
Director of Tax Rolls
Citrus County
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Lainie Claudio, CFE
Assistant Property Appraiser
Marion County
If you‟re anything like me, I‟m finding it
hard to believe that winter (such as it is in
Florida) is upon us and 2013 is quickly
coming to an end.
Several (maybe many) years ago it seemed
this time of year offered a bit of a break
between finishing one roll and beginning
another. Alas, those days are gone as we
are challenged with doing more with less
and VAB hearings in many counties extend into the New Year. I
wonder what year Miami-Dade is working on? Check out the
county spotlight on page 7 where the Honorable Carlos Lopez-
Cantera provides some insight into the largest county in the
state.
Your Florida Chapter has accomplished many things in 2013, al-
though some of them are behind the scenes and may be hard for
you to immediately see.
Your executive board has been hard at work reinforcing the in-
ternal framework of the chapter to insure its future success and
to ease the transition between current and subsequent board
members. The Chapter‟s two newest steering committees, Real
Property and IT/GIS, are now in place and will be assisting the
executive board to develop specialized tracks for the 2014 Annual
Conference.
Director Tracy Drake developed a
Chapter Committee Handbook
for both new and existing committee members to use to familiar-
ize themselves with the chapter‟s history, committee goals and
responsibilities, and operating procedures. Tracy is now working
on developing a policies and procedures manual for the executive
board which will outline in detail how to conduct the chapter‟s
business.
The executive board also revised outdated job descriptions of
each Officer and Director‟s responsibilities in order to stay
abreast with technological changes and, with member approval,
amended the bylaws accordingly.
In order to keep all this data in a secure, accessible file system,
Membership Director Katie Casey created a
Google Docs
site for
the executive board to store historic minutes, newsletters, finan-
cial documents, policies, etc.
Neil “Nick”
Nikkinen, AAS, CFE
