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Sumner County commissioners press staff to retrieve property data after tax-freeze errors and boundary problems
Summary
Commissioners heard extended testimony about missing historical property data after a system migration, a merged parcel that triggered a 2019 tax-freeze dispute, and election-boundary errors; county staff were directed to locate contracts and pursue the data and return with options in February.
Sumner County commissioners on Jan. 13 heard detailed public and commissioner accounts of errors tied to a recent property-tax system transition, and directed staff to determine whether the county can recover historical parcel data from a private vendor.
The discussion began after Commissioner Rogers described a case in which his father’s parcel — previously granted a tax freeze covering the dwelling and up to 5 acres — was merged with an adjacent 4.03-acre parcel, producing a combined 9.03-acre record and triggering a reassessment that produced a roughly $600 tax increase. An administrative hearing on the assessor’s decision is scheduled for Feb. 20, 2025, Rogers said.
County officials and residents told commissioners that a migration from a local ‘‘Patriot’’ property system to a state system left gaps in the county’s historical data.…
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