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Kenai Peninsula Borough assessor outlines reinspection cycle, appeals decline and budget rise
Summary
Borough Assessor Adena Wilcox told the assembly the assessing office is on a five-year reinspection cycle, that informal and formal appeals fell this year, and that the department seeks more funding mainly for notice printing, software maintenance and computer replacements.
Kenai Peninsula Borough Assessor Adena Wilcox told the borough assembly on May 20 that the assessing department will continue its five-year systematic reinspection cycle and is seeking a modest departmental budget increase largely driven by printing and technology costs.
Wilcox, the borough assessor, said the department employs 21 people and carries out property identification, classification and valuations each year under state statute and professional appraisal standards. She noted a 0.71 percent increase in the department’s budget request, with personnel costs up slightly and services higher mainly because of increased expense for printing notices, software maintenance and postage.
The department mailed 63,129 real-property assessment notices in February and 4,481 personal-property notices in…
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