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Assessor reports $29 billion county valuation, new GIS services and staffing changes
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Yamhill County Assessor Derek Wharf told the Board of Commissioners the countyvaluation certified at about $29 billion, detailed field-inspection and appeals activity, previewed new GIS services and described budget pressures tied to personnel costs.
Derek Wharf, Yamhill County assessor, told the Board of Commissioners on Oct. 16 that the countycertified total assessed value for the year is just over $29,000,000,000 and outlined workload, staffing and technology changes in his office.
Wharf said the office conducted about 3,900 field inspections for new construction and another roughly 5,200 inspections for reappraisal during the valuation cycle, putting staff on approximately 10,000 properties over the last year. "We put employees on 10,000 properties this last year," he said, describing the volume of outreach and inspection work.
The assessor noted appeals activity remains low compared with his earlier years in the office. He said local appeals to the property valuation board were small this cycle — nine appeals advanced to the property tax appeal board — and that the office recently defended a magistrate-division trial. Wharf also discussed a separate, high-profile tax-court case involving Lowe…
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