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Board of Assessors approves digest delivery after chief appraiser outlines assessment metrics
Summary
The county Board of Assessors voted to approve delivery of the property tax digest to the tax commissioner after Chief Appraiser Ron Glisson reviewed statutory deadlines and assessment statistics, including a 92% median level of assessment and a 6% coefficient of dispersion.
The County Board of Assessors voted to approve delivery of the property tax digest to the tax commissioner during its June 10, 2025, meeting after Ron Glisson, chief appraiser of the County Property Appraisal Office, reviewed key deadlines and quality measures for the digest. Glisson told the board the digest must be turned over “on or before July 15” under state law.
The digest matters because the tax commissioner uses it to prepare property tax bills that the county expects to mail in mid-September. Glisson said the tax commissioner typically transmits the digest to the state revenue commissioner by August. He also said staff will meet with the tax commissioner’s office the next day to review the file line by line.
Glisson summarized the appraisal statistics the office will submit: a median level of assessment of 92%; a coefficient of dispersion of 6%; and a price-related differential of about 1.01. He said the state’s acceptable ranges are 90%–110% for level of assessment, less than 15% for residential coefficient of dispersion (20% for nonresidential), and 0.98–1.03 for price-related differential.
Glisson described other digest figures from the most recent (2024) consolidated totals in the packet: a 2024 gross digest total of about $9.2 billion and an estimated 100% fair-market-value base near $23 billion, with roughly 50,000 real-property parcels in the county. He said net taxable residential value increased about 10% and total digest value rose about 8% year over year.
Glisson also said staff added a link on the public information page (modeled after one used by Clinton County) to clarify that the assessment notices and on-line tax estimates are partial estimates and to remind taxpayers to read disclaimers. He thanked Erin Buckin for preparing the submission and told the board that the office will meet the statutory July 15 deadline for delivering the digest to the tax commissioner.
After brief questions from board members, the chair called for a motion and the board voted to approve delivery of the digest to the tax commissioner. The meeting transcript contains inconsistent references to whether the motion referred to the 2024 or 2025 digest; the board recorded the motion as approved on the record in the session.
