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- EIN 23-6462841
- (717) 526-1010
- Po Box 60769 Harrisburg PA 17106-0769 USA
- www.paassessors.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Mission: To improve assessment practices in the commonwealth of pennsylvania, to provide for the collection, distribution and exchange of information relating to the field of assessment among members, to improve public relations, to inform members of legislation intended to improve assessment functions, to cooperate with other interested agencies in the promotion of the objectives of this association, and in every proper way to encourage a fair and just distribution of the tax burden.
Programs: Aap holds two conferences per year to provide the continuing education need for our members and non-members to maintain their certified property evaluator's (cpe) licenses. In pennsylvania, cpe's need 28 credit hours every two years in order to renew their licenses. Each conference has roughly 175 to 250 attendees depending on location and place in the two year education cycle.
assessors' association of pennsylvania's (aap) main focus is to provide continuing education to our members and also non-members. We hold continuing professional education classes at least twice each year. Each set of classes is four weeks of education to prepare our students to take the state cpe exam to become certified property evaluators. Aap provides class transcripts for our students before they take the exam. We also offer periodic test prep classes to prepare students to take the test after they have taken the initial four weeks of education.
aap provides a number of other services to our members such as stand-alone classes, classes in conjunction with ccap, lobbying services on assessment issues, technical support, transcript tracking, support for our six chapters, and a quarterly newsletter.