Shared systems still answer to separate boards.
Lane, Clackamas, and Wasco Counties set out to modernize assessment and taxation together. A shared platform lowers cost and raises a hard question: who decides. Avèro was brought in as project management partner to make a three-county implementation work as one program.
Multi-jurisdiction projects fail on governance long before they fail on technology.
Three Oregon counties, Lane, Clackamas, and Wasco, committed to a shared initiative modernizing their assessment and taxation systems in alignment with state compliance requirements and local service delivery needs. The move retires the legacy Ascend and ProVal environment in favor of a modern, integrated platform.
The technical case is straightforward: better accuracy in property appraisal, streamlined assessment workflows, and improved tax collection. The organizational case is harder. Three counties means three commissions, three budget cycles, three sets of local practice built up over decades, and no single authority that can simply decide.
Avèro's role spans each phase of the work, balancing tailored strategic planning against the need for a coherent shared migration, with emphasis on data integrity, stakeholder engagement, and long-term usability.
Drawing on expertise in both CAMA and taxation environments, Avèro facilitates discovery and fit-gap analysis across jurisdictions, supports vendor selection and contract negotiation, and manages implementation planning and execution, delivering process maps, system test scripts, and standard operating procedures that build county capacity rather than dependency.
Three counties. One implementation. Three sets of rules.
A shared platform across independent jurisdictions needs one plan and three governance conversations. Avèro provided continuity across all of them.
Cross-jurisdiction fit-gap analysis
Discovery and fit-gap analysis run across all three counties, surfacing where practice genuinely differs and where it only appears to.
Vendor selection support
Evaluation and selection across CAMA and taxation platforms, structured so three jurisdictions could reach a decision they each own.
Contract negotiation
Negotiation support for a shared agreement that had to serve three counties with different scale and different budget authority.
Implementation planning & execution
Program management across the migration from the legacy Ascend and ProVal environment, sequenced to protect assessment and collection cycles.
Data integrity management
Migration planning with data integrity as the controlling constraint, because property and tax records carry statutory accuracy obligations.
Process maps, test scripts, SOPs
Structured deliverables that leave each county able to operate and maintain the platform without ongoing consultant dependency.
Continuity across three governance models.
One program, three owners
Avèro provides continuity across governance models while addressing what is genuinely unique to each participating jurisdiction.
State compliance as a fixed input
Oregon assessment and taxation requirements are treated as constraints on the design rather than as a late-stage review.
Capacity, not dependency
Process maps, test scripts, and SOPs are built as county assets, so operational knowledge stays with staff after the engagement ends.
Regional partnerships need a party with no home county.
In a shared implementation, every participating jurisdiction reasonably advocates for its own practice. A project management partner with no stake in whose way wins can hold the shared plan together, surface where local variation is genuinely required, and keep the program from fragmenting into three separate implementations that happen to share a contract.
Neutral across jurisdictions Three counties · One platform · Shared governance
Related work.
Other engagements in Oregon and in property and tax systems.
Port of Portland
ERP transformation partner for an authority spanning airports, marine terminals, and real estate.
Santa Fe County
ERP modernization spanning back-office and justice operations for a 150,000-resident county.
Buyer-Side PMO & IV&V
Full project management on the agency's side of the table.
Running something similar? Let's talk.
Thirty minutes. No pitch. If Avèro isn't the right fit, we'll tell you who is.