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Lincoln County
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Marge Johnson |
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| Title |
Property Property Lister |
| Address |
1110 E. Main St.
Merrill, WI 54452 |
| Telephone |
(715) 536-0335 |
| Fax |
(715) 536-0398 |
| Office Hours |
8:15 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
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| About
Marge:
I started working for Lincoln County Dec. 20, 1982 as
Clerical Assistant to the Property Tax Coordinator. I became
the Program Assistant for the same department six years
later. Upon the retirement of the Property Tax Coordinator
on April 10, 2003, the position was changed to Real Property
Lister and put under the supervision of the Land
Conservationist. The two departments were consolidated to
form the Land Information and Conservation Dept. I aquired
my state Assessor I certification in June 2003. |
About
the office: The Real Property Lister resides under
the Land Information and Conservation Dept. with oversight
by the Land Information and Conservation Committee. The
previous Land Information Office was an independent
department with the Property Tax Coordinator as the dept.
head, but this dept. was combined with the Land Conservation
Dept. in 2003 when the dept. head retired. We were than
moved out of the courthouse to accommodate space needs. The
County Conservationist is the present department head. The
office also consists of the following positions:
Conservation Specialist, Real Property Lister, GIS Project
Coordinator/LIO, Addressing Coordinator, County Surveyor,
GIS/Surveyor Technician and two union positions, a Program
Assistant and Fiscal Clerk as support staff. Lincoln County
has created a Land Services Group which invites all land
related departments to meet once a month to share resources
and discuss collaborative projects. This helps to alleviate
duplication of purchases and services.
The Real Property Lister maintains two budgets: the Tax
Description Budget and Assessment and Tax Roll Budget. The
mission of the Tax Description division is to provide the
basis for the countywide property tax billing and collection
system. We maintain the ownership and assessment records,
assist town officials with assessment and tax procedures,
interpret and transfer all recorded documents on to the Land
Records System, process assessment rolls, notices, tax
bills, tax rolls, tax deed notices, indexes, sales reports,
summaries and miscellaneous data requests, investigate,
research and answer property tax questions from the public
and maintain the Land Records internet site. The mission of
the Assessment and Tax Roll division is to fund the
non-personnel costs of maintaining the computerized Land
Records System. We contract with the City-County Data Center
in Marathon County for the use and support of the Land
Records System. This system provides real time access for
many county offices, public terminals and internet access.
J.Maul & Assoc. provide the municipalities with tax
collection software.
Our GIS staff coordinates parcel mapping with the base maps
being contracted out and updating done in house. Lincoln
County started parcel mapping in 2001 with a 10 year plan.
By 2006, we will have 7 of 18 municipalities parcel mapped.
In preparation for parcel mapping, the County Surveyor has
managed the remonumentation of section corners in 8 of 18
municipalities. He will continue this process until the
County is totally remonumented. Our Address Coordinator
position was recently created to ensure proper addressing
and signing using GPS. |
| About Lincoln county:
Lincoln County consists of 16 rural municipalities with 3
Lake Districts and 1 Sanitary District and 2 cities with 3
TIF Districts. |
| County Facts:
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Area (sq miles) |
900 |
| Population
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30,271 |
Year of Population |
2004 |
| Tax Parcels |
30,114 |
| Equalized Value |
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