Cindy Braddock, Boulder County assessor, told the county Board of Equalization on Aug. 26 that the assessor's office received 7,802 real property appeals this year and adjusted roughly 40% of them.
The report to the board, required under Colorado statute, also showed 41 business personal property appeals with 29 adjustments and 12 denials. Braddock said the office flagged 614 business personal property accounts that did not return declarations by the April 15 deadline and will review them for audits.
Braddock said the county's preliminary certified taxable value for real property is roughly $136,000,000,000 (taxable value before assessment-rate application) and the business personal property total is about $2,200,000,000. She told the board the adjustment rate for appeals this year is similar to most years, about 40% adjusted and 60% denied, and noted that two years ago, during the reassessment year, appeals exceeded 25,000.
Commissioners asked how this year compared with prior years; Braddock reiterated that 2025 was far below the 25,000 appeals received in the reassessment year and said the lower number reflected flatter values this cycle. She said appeals are often altered when property owners provide evidence that changes the assessor's valuation and that property owners who remain dissatisfied can pursue hearings before the county Board of Equalization.
Braddock said the assessor's office has reported preliminary certification of values to county finance officers and that staff will follow up on business personal property accounts that missed the filing deadline.
No formal action was taken; the item was a required statutory report to the Board of Equalization.