Assessing the Situation

This episode is all about getting involved! Shawn Chevreux, IAAO Senior Director of Membership and Community Engagement, reviews the new IAAO Affinity Group program. Guests from two IAAO affinity groups join Shawn to talk about their groups. Carmen Trammell, AAS, Leon County (Fla.) Property Appraiser's Office, shares about the Women's Initiative Network, and Chandra Reilly, Saskatchewan (Canada) Assessment Management Agency, joins to talk about jumpstarting your career with Launch Pad.

New podcast episode on IAAO, TAF task force efforts on accepting mass appraisal experience.IAAO announces the release of the December episode of the podcast: Assessing the Situation, featuring interviews with Kevin Hayes of IAAO’s Mass Appraisal Experience Task Force and Pete Fontana of The Appraisal Foundation’s State Harmonization Task Force.The two groups have been working together for several months to encourage more state appraisal regulatory boards to accept mass appraisal experience as a viable pathway toward earning single property appraisal certifications and credentials.

This episode features interviews with Chief Appraiser from Limestone County, Taylor Dobson, RES; Director of the Vermont Department of Taxes, Property Valuation & Review Division, Jill Remick, and Russ Thigman and Luc Hermans of the IAAO Research and Standards Committee. Ratio Studies Exposure Draft: Feedback is requested by December 15, 2025

The first episode, now available, features an interview with Palm Beach County Property Appraiser and former IAAO President Dorothy Jacks, CFA, FIAAO, AAS; along with interviews of Chesney Leafblad of the Cook County Board of Review; the IAAO Annual Conference Local Host Committee Chairs Katie Grasso and Kenny Pennington; and IAAO Library Services Director, Elizabeth Ferguson, Ph.D.