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year as well as historical data back to the 2012-13 tax year after excluding previous <br />audit misallocations identified by the City or its current contractor. <br />HdLCC has the technology, methodology and trained staff to analyze all secured parcels <br />within the City to identify costly errors resulting in the misallocation of property taxes. <br />The Orange County Assessor, beginning in the 2004-05 fiscal year, has determined that <br />the situs addresses on the secured tax roll are confidential information and has not <br />included that field on the data available for purchase. HdLCC has been purchasing data <br />from Orange County for 22 years and has been archiving situs address on properties <br />during that time. Where a parcel number has not changed, HdLCC has updated the <br />address from previous rolls to complete the database. If the parcels have been re - <br />mapped and we can ascertain a direct relationship between the old and new parcel, we <br />have updated the address. New parcels added since 2004-05 have addresses updated <br />from other data sources making the percentage of situs addresses available in Santa <br />Ana 97% on the secured roll. <br />HdLCC audits the secured and property records two ways: first reviewing the entire <br />county to find parcels miscoded to other jurisdictions; and second, reviewing the <br />parcels within the city, county or agency to ensure that each is coded to the appropriate <br />taxing entity. Our advanced technology, accuracy and track record have placed us in a <br />unique position to be hired by cities to find additional revenues after audits have been <br />performed by prior consultants. In addition, by filing audit results with the County <br />Assessor in a timely manner, we can assure that the repetitive errors from previous <br />years will not re -occur. <br />Unsecured Audits <br />The Orange County Assessor has always considered unsecured property addresses a <br />confidential field of information and therefore does not include this data on the lien date <br />database sold to outside purchasers. Addresses are a critical field of data required for <br />auditing unsecured property as it is reported based on situs address This makes <br />performing reviews on the unsecured (business property) a challenge because if the <br />County fails to indicate where the property is located as a field in their database, it is <br />Page 1 15 <br />25B-41 <br />