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Assessor asks for staff and imaging upgrades to meet five-year review mandate
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Utah County Assessor Bert Garfin told commissioners the assessor's office must review every parcel every five years and needs additional staff and imaging tools to meet state-mandated deadlines and performance tests.
Utah County Assessor Bert Garfin told the commission on Oct. 14 that the assessor's office faces statutory and performance requirements that require more staffing and better imaging tools.
Bert Garfin, presenting the assessor's 2026 budget asks, said the office must complete a mandated detailed review of every parcel every five years and meet an earlier assessment-roll deadline, state sales-ratio tests and an obligation to decide appeals within 60 days of filing.
Garfin said the office currently completed about 37,000 detailed-review parcels last year but needs to average 60,000 per year through 2028 to meet the schedule. To reach that capacity he requested multiple…
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