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Tracks 1 thru 4: ProVal International User Group
Track 1: Core CAMA
Track 2: Advanced CAMA
Track 3: Information Technology/Tech Services/Advanced Topics
Track 4: Interactive Workshop/Q&A Forum
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Monday, September 29
Monday 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
OPENING SESSION FOR PROVAL USERS (Tracks 1 thru 4 combined)
Overview: The Journey from ProVal 7.8.2 to 7.11
ProVal 7.11 is now available and with it comes a number of new enhancements requested by users through the ProVal User Group Executive Committee. This combined session will provide an overview of many of the key features and enhancements now available in ProVal as you prepare to upgrade from the obsolete 7.8.2 version to the current ProVal 7.11 release.
Instructor: Kelby Moore, William Pleake - Manatron
Note: Technical upgrade procedural details for those who will be performing the upgrade activities will be presented in the Monday afternoon sessions of Track 3.
Track 1: Core CAMA
An informative and interactive presentation of the program for the novice user. Residential and Commercial topics like the basic program features and functions, administrative maintenance, data entry, sketching, neighborhood concepts, and property record cards will be covered. Instructors are experienced ProVal users from established ProVal jurisdictions, many of whom have been using ProVal for ten years or more. They will share the “tricks of the trade” they have learned in their experience.
Monday, September 29
Monday 1:30 – 3:00 pm
BASIC LAND VALUATION
Valuation of land is a fundamental part of the appraisal process. This session will cover the basic process from the data entry of land information to valuation. During this session, the user will also be introduced to the ProVal Land Models
Instructor: TBD
Monday 3:15 – 5:00 pm
RESIDENTIAL VALUATION– PARTS 1 & 2
Using ProVal Plus, when you enter the sketch and physical characteristics of the property correctly, a value is easily generated, but is it correct? This session will cover the many ways of sketching, including angles and curves. Valuing residential dwellings, entering property characteristics, and adjusting the resulting values to market will be covered. Valuation history and memos are just a few of the features that will be discussed. This session is a must for new users.
Instructor: Brian Stender – Canyon County, ID
Tuesday, September 30
Tuesday 8:30 – 10:30
RESIDENTIAL VALUATION– PARTS 1 & 2 (CONTINUED)
Session continued from above.
Instructor: Brian Stender – Canyon County
Tuesday 10:45 - Noon
APPLYING VALUE MODIFIERS
OK, the computer spit out a value, but I’M the appraiser! How do I REALLY get the value I need? Unlock the full power of the ProVal CAMA system by understanding how to apply neighborhood adjustments, influence factors, relative desirability factors, and much more.
Instructor: Sue Cunningham – Virginia Beach, VA
Tuesday 1:15 – 2:45 pm
USING STATISTICAL TOOLS IN PROVAL & THE VALUE CALIBRATION ANALYSIS
You have good sales sitting in the system and are ready to get to work on your reassessment! Now, how do you combine good data, statistics and ProVal tools to come up with accurate assessments? Join this session and overview some basic statistics and learn how the ProVal Value Calibration Analysis can help you get more accurate assessments!
Instructor: Ryan Davis – Falls Church, VA
Tuesday 3:00 – 5:00 pm
COMMERCIAL VALUATION
The advantage of using the simple ProVal Plus/Marshall and Swift program for entering commercial data is presented in this session. It includes sketching, party walls (for perimeter calculation purposes), Outbuildings, Yard Items & Special features unique to commercial buildings. Commercial Occupancy use descriptions/ranking, building characteristics, wall types, and minimum data that must be entered will also be covered along with error messages on why a property will not produce reliable cost data.. If you are a commercial appraiser, but not an experienced ProVal user, or if you are new to the Marshall and Swift configuration in ProVal, you need to attend this session. Note: This session assumes the user has attended, or is familiar with, residential data entry! Basic sketching will not be covered.
Instructor: Ron Agnor – Virginia Beach, VA
Wednesday, September 31
Wednesday 8:30 – 10:30 am
UNDERSTANDING PROVAL TABLES
ProVal is a table-driven system. This session is offered with the belief that everyone using ProVal Plus could benefit from a basic understanding of the tables that drive the system and how they may be modified to better suit your jurisdictional needs. In this session you will gain a better understanding of the Codes Table, Land Type Table and other important tables such as the Neighborhood Tables, ProValuation Table and House Type Table, Group Codes, etc. Learn how they can work for you in managing the valuation process.
Instructor: Sue Cunningham – Virginia Beach, VA
Wednesday 10:45 am – 12:00 noon
PROVAL AND APPEALS MANAGEMENT
Appeals are a huge part of assessment administration in these challenging economic times! This session will review the appeals management process in ProVal, along with providing an overview of a user developed system from Lake County, Illinois.
Instructor: Marty Paulson – Lake County, IL
Wednesday 1:15 – 2:45 pm
ADVANCED FUNCTION SELECTION IN PROVAL
Yes, we all use Crystal Reports, Access and SQL queries outside of ProVal to help us gather data we need to produce our valuations. Are you aware of the functions in ProVal that allow you to insert queries directly into the appraisal system to produce needed data and parcel sets? This session will provide you insight into how all users can take advantage of this easy to use function in ProVal!
Instructor: Gary Bennett – Lake County, IL
Wednesday 3:00 pm
REGIONAL MEETINGS
Wednesday, September 31
Thursday 8:30 – 10:30 am
UNDERSTANDING NEW FEATURES IN PROVAL 7.11
ProVal 7.11 is now available and with it comes with a number of new enhancements requested by users through the ProVal User Group Executive Committee. This session will explore the many key features and enhancements now available in ProVal as you prepare to upgrade your version to the most current ProVal 7.11 release.
Instructor: Khris Seger - Manatron
Thursday 10:45 am – 12:00 noon
CONDO MODELS AND VALUATION
There has GOT to be a better way to value condo units…doesn’t there? Attend this session and learn how to enter and maintain condominium information on both the project and unit level. ProVal’s condo module allows easy tracking and valuation of condominiums based on information specified by the user.
Instructor: Fred Kamprad – Arlington, VA
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TRACK 2: Advanced CAMA
The Advanced CAMA track is designed for current users of ProVal Plus who would like to learn more about some of the deeper functionality of ProVal as well as gain some insight on some third party associations and uses of ProVal data.
Monday, September 29
Monday 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
USER DEVELOPED CRYSTAL REPORTS
Ever needed a report that was over your head? Struggled to mine the data? We’ve all been there at one time or another. One of the benefits of being a part of our User Group is the sharing of knowledge between ALL users. This session will overview user developed Crystal Reports created by various jurisdictions and users. We’ll take a look at the report results as well as the mechanics behind the process. Reports will be available for download so that you may modify them for your data needs. Come join us and help make this session a benefit to everyone!
Instructor: Greg Daniels – Lynchburg, VA
Monday 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
COMMERCIAL INCOME
The Users Group asked for a number of changes to the Income Approach in ProVal, and Manatron delivered. If ProVal 7.9 was the last time you saw the Income Approach, you owe it to yourself to check out all the enhancements included in 7.11! This session will cover the basic elements of setting up and using the income approach within ProVal as well as a discussion of the changes made in both the modeled and reported processes. This class will be of interest to you whether you are just getting started using the Income Approach or are an advanced user and have been using the ProVal income module for years. This course will cover the basic elements of the ProVal income model and will demonstrate how to store and retrieve your market derived data by setting up a mass appraisal income model, allowing you to produce accurate, equitable, and defendable values for all your income producing properties!
Instructor: William Pleake - Manatron
Tuesday, September 30
Tuesday 8:30 am – 10:30 am
IMPROVING CAMA MODELING WITH GIS
Geographically weighted regression (GWR) has the potential to significantly improve assessment accuracy for ProVal users with parcel coordinates from GIS. This session will explain the technique for using parcel coordinates in the value estimating process and compare results with Wayne’s 2005 research that was published in the Journal of Property Tax Assessment & Administration (JPTAA), as well as results using City of Norfolk data.
Instructors: Joshua Myers - City of Norfolk; Wayne Moore - Independent Researcher
Tuesday 10:45 am – 12:00 noon
REGRESSION ANALYSIS WITH VISUAL MODPRO
The Proval 7.11 Release has an exciting new regression tool built in called Visual ModPro, resulting from the acquisition of Sigma Systems. Visual ModPro has been integrated into ProVal with tools for extracting data from the Market History tables for analysis, model-building and valuation. Come learn how to use this versatile new tool.
Instructor: Pat Alesandrini, Jeff Bernard - Manatron
Tuesday 1:15 – 2:45 pm
CASE STUDY: IMPROVING PROVAL USER EFFICIENCY WITH ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
Jefferson County (Kentucky) Property Valuation Administration was dealing with the challenges of managing the storage of the many paper forms and documents containing important information that is not stored electronically in the ProVal system. Meeting the twelve year storage requirements for hundreds of thousands of paper documents was also becoming very expensive, and the manual processing of these same documents was very inefficient. The manual “document management” was hindering the productivity of the employees. Please join us to see how Jefferson County now allows employees to view important ProVal data on one screen while having one click access in ProVal to all related documents stored in a web portal.
Instructor: Donna Hunt – Jefferson County, KY
Tuesday 3:00 – 5:00 pm
CASE STUDY: ACCESS/EXCEL RESIDENTIAL SALES STUDY
Join Arlington, Virginia and see how residential sales can be analyzed outside the box! Analyze sales using current ProVal data that can be refreshed at any time! This application allows analysis of up to six land types and methods, up to three locational modifiers and statistics for up to three time periods! Change land rates and add/delete/change locational modifiers in the spreadsheet and instantly see the resulting values and statistical measures. Another example of savvy users taking ProVal outside the box!
Instructor: Fred Kamprad – Arlington, VA
Wednesday, September 31
Wednesday 8:30 – 10:30 am
MARKET ANALYSIS
You’ve worked the sales and have accurate, verified sales and characteristics. Now, how do you use those sales to calibrate your computed values with the market? The Market Database was eliminated in Release 7.9. Sales screening codes are now gone in Release 7.11. How will this impact your office procedure? Learn how the new sales validation process works with the existing validity codes in your codes table and how to use Value Calibration Analysis with parcel characteristics that existed at the time of the sale. Major changes are in the works for ProVal and this is one that impacts the core of your appraisal process. This class alone justifies attending the conference!
Instructor: Doug Bennett - Manatron
Wednesday 10:45 am – 12:00 noon
USING COMPARABLE SALES IN PROVAL
Let your system work for you to find AND adjust comparable sales. Users will learn how to set up the “Point and Dollar Adjustment Table” in the comparable sales module as well as obtain an understanding of how both of these tools work.
Instructor: Chuck Colvin, Manatron
Wednesday 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
ADDITIONAL PROVAL TOOLS
This session will identify some of the very useful tools that are available in ProVal, but are unknown to many users, such as ProVal preferences and setup, certification rules, input files, parcel sets, advanced query, and enhanced help.
Instructor: Doug Bennett, Manatron
Wednesday 3:00 pm
REGIONAL MEETINGS
Thursday, October 1
Thursday 8:30 am –10:30 am
USER WEB SITES AND PUBLIC DATA SHARING
Join us for a sneak preview of how some users share their real estate information with the public. This session will view actual user web sites and discuss such things as: data share issues, query capabilities and helpful links. Get an idea of what the public wants and how to securely share your information with them!
Instructor: Kathi Grizzle, Libby Griebel – Hampton, VA
Thursday 10:45 – 12:00 noon
ADVANCED LAND MODELING & VALUATION
Are you taking full advantage of the functionality available to you in ProVal’s powerful land valuation engine? Join us as we take a look at valuing land in ProVal, including setting up land tables ranging from the simple site method to the versatile user defined method.
Instructor: TBD
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TRACK 3: Information Technology / Tech Services / Advanced Topics
This is the track intended for system administrators and IT personnel who are interested in learning about the most advanced uses of ProVal as it relates to database and system administration. It covers such topics as the details of how to do the upgrade to ProVal 7.10, the Data Structure of ProVal, SQL Views and Query Techniques, SQL Reporting Services, Crystal Reports, ProVal Integration with Third Party Products, and Advanced Valuation Topics.
Monday, September 29
Monday 1:15 – 2:45 pm
PROVAL 7.11 UPGRADE PROCESS IN DETAIL
This session covers all the steps necessary to upgrade from ProVal 7.8 and ProVal 7.9 to the current release, which is ProVal 7.11. The upgrade from ProVal 7.8 to ProVal 7.9 is more complex and time-consuming than going from 7.9 to 7.11. With the general availability release of ProVal 7.11, Manatron resources are dedicated to the support of this release and the next. Hence, the standard resolution for problems reported in prior releases will be either upgrade to ProVal 7.11 or to use a workaround for the problem. ProVal 7.11 has the long-requested user group enhancements and has been extensively tested by Manatron and beta test users.
Instructor: Manatron
Monday 3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY FORUM
Are you in IT in your jurisdiction? Do you have solutions you feel strongly about or problems you wish we would fix? Do you yearn to discuss specific items related to the database, patch management, etc.? Then this is the place you want to be. When you’re packing your bags, pack your ideas and successes and bring those to class too. Included will be discussions on SQL Server upgrades and 64 bit processors.
Instructors: Early Stephens, Mat Greener - Manatron
Tuesday, September 30
Tuesday 8:30 – 10:30 am
PROVAL DATA STRUCTURE AND SQL
Ever wonder where all of that data goes once it’s entered? This class will show you the basics of how to understand the most commonly used tables within the ProVal database. It will compare the standalone ProVal structure with the schema when ProVal’s database is integrated as part of the GRM database. This session will cover items such as linking tables, key fields within the tables, table relationships and where data is stored. This is a must attend class if you are an IT professional, user of Crystal Reports, or user of SQL Reporting Services.
Instructor: Rodney Patterson – Manatron
Tuesday 10:45 am – 12:00 noon
GRM DATA STRUCTURE
In addition to ProVal stand-alone data structure, this class will delve into how ProVal works in an integrated environment with the Records component and GRM 8.06. We will cover items such as linking tables, key fields within the tables, table relationships and where data is stored.
Instructors: Mike Dunn – Manatron
Tuesday 1:15 – 5:00 pm (break at 2:45)
SQL REPORTING SERVICES PARTS 1 & 2
If you are already using Microsoft SQL Server 2005, would you like to know more about the report writing capabilities that are part of the database product? This session provides an overview of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, which delivers enterprise, Web-enabled reporting functionality so you can create reports that draw content from a variety of data sources, publish reports in various formats, and centrally manage security and subscriptions.
Instructors: Matt Palcic, Walt Mobley - Manatron
Wednesday, September 31
Wednesday 8:30 – 10:30 am
CRYSTAL REPORTS – BASIC
There are numerous reports that can be generated using ProVal data. Find out what reports users have generated and their applications in year-end valuation management as well as helping with administrative duties. Learn how to use the ProVal Report Manager, which is a tool included with ProVal Plus to help manage and share your Crystal Reports.
Instructor: Kim Utley – Virginia Beach, VA
Wednesday 10:45 am – 12:00 noon
ADVANCED CRYSTAL REPORTS
Moving beyond the basics, this class takes Crystal to another experience level. Learn how to use Sub Reports, chart design, different ways of linking data, and a more in-depth study on database schema to Crystal relationship are only a few of the topics!
Instructor: Kim Utley – Virginia Beach, VA
Wednesday 1:15 – 2:45 pm
PROVAL PRODUCT INTEGRATION OVERVIEW
This session contains an overview of the various third party product interfaces available in ProVal and GRM, such as with Pictometry, Rover Ink, ESRI (through GeoEdit and GeoAnalyst), SDS Parcel Mapper and Parcel Analyst, Sidwell Parcel Builder and Farmland Valuation, as well as Intergraph through Parcel Manager.
Instructor: Dave Penrod, Pat Alesandrini - Manatron
Wednesday 3:00 pm
REGIONAL MEETINGS
Thursday, October 1
Thursday 8:30 am – 12:00 noon (break at 10:30)
PROVAL VALUATION TABLES (PARTS 1 & 2)
Take two aspirin and attend this session to get a taste of depreciation and Grade Factors in the ProVal Engine. We’ll start with an overview of depreciation as it impacts value, then review the depreciation table and Age Model options. Next we’ll help you better understand the Grade Factors section and how they affect your grades and values. We will review Value Modifiers and set aside time at the end of the second session for a PVEngine Q&A, so bring your questions or problems with you to discuss.
Instructor: Alan Shipp - Manatron
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TRACK 4: INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP / Q&A FORUM
New to the conference in 2007, the Q&A (Question and Answer) Forum was very well received by users, so it is being repeated in the 2009 conference program. The workshop will make ProVal professionals available to the users, who can answer questions on products ranging from ProVal, GRM Records and Assessment Administration, Crystal Reports to processes, procedures scripts, views and almost any other product related topic. There will be four booths available each day of the conference during the regular track break-out session times to cover the following topics. You can reserve a 20-minute time slot at any booth by putting your name and topic on the reservation sheet at each booth. If you notice that another person has reserved a time slot for a topic in which you have interest, you may listen to the session without participating or interrupting the reserved session.
ProVal Support: This booth will be manned by ProVal support personnel who will be available to answer support related questions and issues. If you have an issue that will require an extended discussion, they will arrange an appointment with you to discuss it.
Records and Assessment Administration: Records and AA are coming so start preparing now. Stop by the booth for general questions or to see a brief demo of the products. This booth will be manned by Manatron staff that is highly skilled in the front-end use of these products.
ProVal Super Users Booth: Your peers hard at work. This booth will be staffed by ProVal power users who can offer you ideas and suggestions on how to fully utilize the software. This is an untapped resource that can offer you more than one perspective on a question or idea. Discuss how ProVal is implemented in other jurisdictions and get information and contacts that you can carry back to your locality.
Crystal Reports: We’ve picked the best users available to man this booth. Here you can pose those questions to someone who can really help you achieve the ultimate report. If you have a good report, leave it with us so we can share it with others. Bring your memory stick so you can get copies of the best reports around.
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