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SAMA - QualityWarranty- Overview Home | Careers | Site Map | Email Us Now    ABOUT US Who is SAMA Our History Our Mandate Our Governance Board of Directors Advisory Committees Executive Our Organization Vision, Mission & Values QualityWarrantyOverviewInspectGuides Careers ABOUT ASSESSMENT UnderstandingTowageMethods ofTowageProviding Information to SAMA Appealing anTowageFAQs SAMA'S SERVICES Using SAMA's Services RevaluationsUnstipulatedReinspections Maintenance Reinspections Support ofTowageAppeals Online Services Assessments Online (SAMAView) Market Valuation Standard Requirements Roll Confirmation Reports StatutoryInspectReports Detailed Property Information Property Sales Information Forms PUBLICATIONS Business Plans & Annual Reports Bylaws & Board Orders Educational Publications Manuals, Handbooks, Guides Reports NEWS CENTRE Events Calendar Media Releases News Speeches LOGIN AREA Board Member Login Stakeholder Login CONTACT US Central Office Regional Offices Regional Boundaries Email SAMA now    Well-nighUs   Who is SAMA Our History Our Mandate Our Governance       Board of Directors       Advisory Committees       Executive Our Organization Vision, Mission, and Values QualityWarranty      Overview       Audit Guides Careers       Share: Text Size:    QualityWarranty  Overview SAMA conducts audits of assessments in all jurisdictions throughout Saskatchewan to ensure compliance with both legislated and regulated requirements.   SAMA moreover balances towage rolls for all municipalities in Saskatchewan, and recommends confirmation of municipal towage returns by the SAMA Board of Directors. Municipalities are required to submit their rolls for confirmation every year.     QualityWarrantyVision, Mission, Principles The SAMA Board unexplored the pursuit Vision and Mission statements withal with respective Principles at their April 24th, 2009 meeting. These statements pinpoint the SAMA Board’s position on its property towage oversight mandate relative to the formal, and self-sustaining quality warranty function. These statements are in wing to the Board’s existing agency’s Vision, Mission and Values statements, to specifically write the quality warranty function.   Vision The SAMA Board, through its self-sustaining and directly subject QualityWarrantyDivision, fosters public trust by ensuring property assessments meet prescribed statutory requirements.   Mission To provide unbiased, responsive, professional and collaborative audits of mass valuation valuation processes and municipal towage rolls through an self-sustaining and directly subject QualityWarrantyDivision.   Principles  PeccancyDefines responsibility relationships. The principle of peccancy requires a reasonable peccancy framework be unexplored and implemented, addressing both the auditor (QAD) and the auditees (Municipalities andTowageService Providers [ASPs]) to ensure a functional property towage oversight program. Transparency Defines what shall be undertaken (the quality warranty audits, and provision of information), by whom, what results are reported and when, and to whom those results shall be reported, to ensure conviction and trustworthiness in the property towage oversight program. Further, this principle requires unmistakably establishing the authority, who(m) shall be solely responsible for the interpretation and verdict of inspect findings, with full independence for such undertaking from all auditees.  Fairness Defines the requirement for a resulting and impartial property towage oversight program, and that the programs be undertaken by the auditors in a manner to ensure unbiased, and legitimate treatment of all auditees. Further, this principle addresses a broader desire of the agency, to provide auditees with the opportunity to modernize their property assessments where identified by the program, on a continual resurgence basis, without the fear of statutory reprisal for error where the order of magnitude is deemed largely compliant.ProbityDefines the focus on property towage probity (similar properties in similar markets are valued and assessed similarly), ensuring the desired outcome in an ad valorem system (This principle does not proffer to probity in property taxation.) Sustainability Defines the need to have an ongoing, functional, and operational property towage oversight program, ensuring the SAMA Board of Directors has wangle to reliable, and timely information concerning property assessments for purposes of recommending Stakeholders that they may have unstipulated conviction and trust in municipal assessments. This principle addresses the need to ensure the property towage oversight program does not adversely stupefy the worthiness of auditees to siphon on their day-to-day functions. Confidentiality Defines the need for the auditor to alimony confidential, all inspect working files, including data and information provided to the auditor by the auditee. This principle sets out the requirement to specify what shall be confidential (i.e. source inspect data, and working files), and what information shall not be confidential (i.e. inspect reports). The purpose of this principle is to ensure the ongoing stability of towage rolls, which may be subject to wrongheaded consequences if the auditor released unrepealable data and/or information publicly.     For Property Owners Order Detailed Property Reports Order Sales Information Appealing an towage Providing Information to SAMA FAQs well-nigh towage Find nearest SAMA office For Municipalities Using SAMA's services Educational Publications FormsInspectGuides Roll Confirmation Reports StatutoryInspectReports Online Publications 2011TowageManual Market Value Handbook 2011 Cost Guide 2015TowageManual 2015 Cost Guide ... or order a reprinting of these        publications What's New 2018 Business Plan 2018 SAMA Annual Meeting 2017 Annual Report SAMA Melfort Office Move © SaskatchewanTowageManagementOrgan- 200 2201 11th Avenue - Regina, Saskatchewan - S4P 0J8 - Phone: 306-924-8000 or 1-800-667-7262