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Board schedules Oct. 29 hearing to approve Board of Equalization and assessor corrections to the 2025 tax roll
Summary
The Board directed staff to place hearing-referee recommended property-tax appeal corrections and assessor-recommended corrections (including possessory interest recalculations) on the Oct. 29 business meeting agenda so corrections can be approved before the November 1 statutory deadline.
Jefferson County’s Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 7 directed staff to place two property-tax correction items on the Oct. 29 business meeting agenda: (1) hearing-referee recommendations from Board of Equalization (BOE) property-tax appeals concluded in recent refereed hearings, and (2) assessor-recommended corrections to the tax roll including possessory interest recalculations and classification adjustments.
County legal staff said the BOE has a statutory obligation to correct assessment rolls and to approve final referee recommendations before Nov. 1. County Attorney’s Office staff reported roughly 1,700 appeals had been scheduled and approximately 1,500 had been completed at the time of briefing; the unusually high 2023 appeal volume (cited historically at about 10,000–15,000) has since trended back toward more typical levels.
Deputy Assessor Sue Flagell explained that the assessor’s recommended corrections list includes roughly 130 properties. About 100 of those relate to possessory interests—primarily airport hangars on government property—where the assessor lacked final lease or possessory‑interest data in time to mail May 1 notices of value and later adjusted values after receiving corrected data. Other corrections in the assessor list include omitted parcels, properties demolished or damaged by fire, and classification corrections.
Legal staff asked the board to place both the BOE-recommended corrections and the assessor’s recommended corrections on the Oct. 29 agenda so the corrections can be approved before the Nov. 1 deadline. Commissioners voted their support at the briefing to move both items forward for formal action at the Oct. 29 meeting.
