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County assessor seeks to reclassify staff and propose new fee schedule for assessment services
Summary
Columbia County Assessor Andrea Jurkowitz asked commissioners to create an assessment supervisor position and discussed a proposed fee schedule for services such as farm deferrals and urban renewal mapping; reclassification will be placed on next week's consent agenda and the fee schedule will be discussed further at a future work session.
Columbia County Assessor Andrea Jurkowitz told the Board of Commissioners on Feb. 12 that she will ask the board to create an assessment supervisor position and reclassify an existing staff member, and she outlined a proposed fee schedule for several assessment office services.
Jurkowitz said the reclassification would slot Joelle Leach into an "assessment supervisor" role, effective March 1, and that the position would include training to perform tax roll duties and supervision of support staff. Jurkowitz said the pay change would be one step above Leach's current pay and that funds are already budgeted through June for the vacancy created by the previous office manager's retirement.
Jurkowitz said the board needs cross-training so the assessor's office is not dependent on a single person to produce the…
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