Habersham tax-software oversight contract revision still lacks a recorded outcome

Habersham County commissioners considered a proposed revision to McCormick Solutions’ contract for overseeing the Tax Assessor’s Office conversion to WINGAP CAMA software at their Sept. 18, 2023, regular meeting. Nearly three years later, the cited agenda and minutes still do not state whether the board approved the change, rejected it or took some other final action.

The unresolved item matters because it concerns outside oversight of a software conversion in the county office responsible for property assessment. The public record establishes that commissioners were asked to consider revised contract terms; it does not establish which terms, if any, governed McCormick Solutions’ work after that meeting.

The record ties the question to the Sept. 18, 2023, Board of Commissioners meeting, when the proposed revision appeared as an approval item concerning McCormick Solutions and the WINGAP CAMA conversion. That placement shows the revision reached the board for consideration, but the cited text does not carry the matter through to a recorded disposition, vote tally, executed amendment or completed oversight assignment.

County commissioners were the public body positioned to act on the proposed revision, while McCormick Solutions was the company named for the oversight role and the Tax Assessor’s Office was the office undergoing the software conversion. The materials identify those roles but do not record commissioners’ deliberations, competing positions, public comment or a stated rationale for any action.

A contract revision was proposed and considered; that is the documented fact. An approval, denial, vote count, final contract language, signed amendment and completion of the related oversight work are not established by the cited meeting text, so the proposal cannot be reported as a completed contract change.

The next meaningful public step would be a later Board of Commissioners agenda or minutes, or a county contract record, that identifies whether the revision was adopted and on what terms. Until then, it remains undecided in the public account whether McCormick Solutions’ oversight agreement was amended and how the WINGAP CAMA conversion proceeded under that agreement.