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Cass County assessor: state law will require assessment notices to most property owners, raising mailing costs
Summary
Cass County’s assessor said recent state legislation requires assessors to send assessment notices to property owners and primary-residence credit notices, a change that could increase the office’s mailing costs from about $8,000 to an estimated $90,000 and require roughly 70,000 notices countywide.
The Cass County assessor (name not specified in the public record of this meeting) told the Board of Commissioners that changes in state law now require assessors to send notification of assessments to property owners after Feb. 1 of the assessing year and to send notice of approval or disapproval of the primary residence credit.
The assessor said the change effectively replaces the prior “notice of increase” process and will expand the number of mailings countywide. Staff provided a preliminary estimate, based on a countywide mail quote, of about $90,000 for the additional mailing workload; the assessor contrasted that with the office’s prior mailing budget of roughly…
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