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Board creates Tax Assessment Work Group after 2025 revaluation prompts equity review
Summary
Following a rise in appeals and neighborhood-level discrepancies in the 2025 property revaluation, the Orange County Board of Commissioners directed staff to form a Tax Assessment Work Group to provide feedback to a consultant and help recommend process changes; commissioners also discussed an RFP, consultant roles and community representation.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners directed staff on Aug. 26 to form a Tax Assessment Work Group to advise a consultant on reviewing assessment policies, procedures and communications after the county's 2025 revaluation produced a surge in appeals and neighborhood-level sales-ratio anomalies.
Why it matters: The county's 2025 reassessment generated substantially more appeals than in 2021, and staff produced countywide and neighborhood-level equity analyses to measure how assessed values tracked market sales. The analyses identified several neighborhoods for closer review. Commissioners said they want an outside expert to evaluate the assessment process and recommend improvements while the county continues to complete current appeals and neighborhood reviews.
What staff reported: County staff said the county's sales bank for residential properties contained about 5,800 qualified arm's-length sales; roughly 950 were removed as statistical outliers during analysis. Staff reported 944 appeals still pending and 114 informal appeals that could become…
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