vetter employee residence reports weld county
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By:
Charles Vetter
The Colorado Employee Residence Reports (CERR) are used to determine residence of certain mineral and energy industry workers. This information is then used as part of the basis for State Severance Tax and Federal Mineral Lease direct distribution payments to local governments.
Two criteria: 1 - The employee worked at least 500 hours in Colorado for any 6 months during the reporting year
2 - The employee worked for the purposes of extraction at the site in Colorado
• 5 Key Components
• Data Entry / Batch Processing
• CERR Address Geocoding
• Address hierarchy
• Master Company List with unique ID’s
• Data Analysis Models
• Reporting / Maps
YEAR
APPEALS
PERCENTAGE
2008 15.88%
2009 24.81%
2010 23.47%
2011 20.54%
2012 23.18%
2013 17.70%
2014 18.46%
2008 processing 271 processed companies
3097 total employees processed
•Less manual data entry
•PDF files to Excel 1 page at a time
•Superb improvements! •Direct export of whole document •Major data handling reduction •Company by Company
2014 processing 294 processed companies
18281 total employees processed
•Batches •Address hierarchy with a composite locator •Thresholds •Merged into global dataset •Data limitations
•Address formatting •PO Boxes •No City
•4th St – 14 different cities
Address validation
• 99999 Montesimone vs. 99999 Monte Cimone St.
Proper city validation
• Mailing address does not verify the proper zone
• Proper zone is where the address is physically located
These validation pieces
are needed to process an
appeal when applicable
•Manual updates still exist
•Unique company ID’s
Appeals Data
2008 map style
Created one at a time
(97 Maps)
•Streamlined •Efficient
2014 map style
Creation of all maps at once
(1433 Maps)
•Limitations •Weld County submits all findings
• Single company download
• Submissions are one by one
• Errors in addresses
• Single username bottleneck
• Bulk downloads
• Bulk appeals upload
• Multiply user accounts
• Additional streamlining
•Severance tax money back to the proper cities •Equal representation for all cities •2014 – $935.22 back to a city in severance tax money for each oil and gas employee – DOLA- •$1,340,170.26 just in appeals
• ESRI ArcGIS 10.2.X • Data Driven Pages
• Modelbuilder
• SAP Crystal Reports
• Microsoft Excel
• Adobe Acrobat Pro
The Colorado Employee Residence Report processing has greatly evolved for Weld County. The extensive work and importance of these reports makes it necessary for efficiency in the aspects of data collection, processing and report submittal as the oil & gas industry continues to grow. Our workflows and efficiencies have proven to be a very useful and helpful tool for our organizational processing of the oil and gas reports.
• Charles Vetter • [email protected]
• 970-356-4000 X2525
www.weldgov.com
• Jacob Mundt • [email protected]
• 970-356-4000 X2521