Property Tax management for municipal agencies and special districts. Budget forecasting, property value and property tax trending. Public speaking on property tax issues. Auditing to ensure that property tax revenues are correctly coded to return revenue to the correct taxing entities.

Founding partner of HdL Coren & Cone the property tax company aligned with the HdL Companies. Completed the development of the first cost-effective and accurate program for identifying, monitoring, auditing and correcting property tax misallocations. Instrumental in the development and creation of the analytical and management report that have become the standard in the industry of trending and forecasting revenue and property value changes. Oversees the company's property tax management service and client interface. Over the past 23 years the company has grown to serving 210 local agencies in 44 counties in California.

Paula Cone is a principal with HdL Coren and Cone, the property tax arm of the HdL Companies, and has over twenty years of municipal experience in finance and city management and 25 years of property tax analysis, local agency interface and audit review experience. She joined the firm in 1990 to oversee the development of the property tax analysis, audit and software elements in use today. She developed the first cost-effective and accurate computer program for identifying, monitoring, auditing and correcting property tax misallocations. Paula oversees the company's property tax management and auditing division which is also responsible for verifying and correcting jurisdictional and boundary errors. She and her team have identified errors which have resulted in a redistribution of net tax revenues of $ 52.6 million to client agencies since 2000. The property tax database is also used to verify jurisdictional and boundary errors for sales tax audit purposes.Ms. Cone earned her Bachelor's degree from California State University at Long Beach. She is former Parks and Recreation Director and Assistant City Manager for the City of Lawndale.

 Served as the Assistant City Manager responsible for the departments of Finance, Personnel, Risk Management, Emergency Management, Animal Control and Parking Enforcement, and Cable Television. Served as the staff to various commissions, committees and the city council for projects and support. Responsible for both the program development and staff supervision of departments and projects assigned.

 Responsible for the staffing and programming of recreation facilities. Major responsibilities included coordination of adult and youth sport leagues, senior citizen programming, pre-school/tiny tot programming, planning of after school and vacation special events, and the development of junior high school special events. The position also included application and securing of grant funds for facility expansion, joint powers coordination with local school sites for after school programs, and involvement in the development and construction of new facilities.