Woods County approves correction to 2024 tax bill after staff reports mobile home repossession

Unidentified Speaker 1 (Moderator) presided over a brief Woods County meeting in which officials approved a correction to a 2024 tax bill after staff reported that a mobile home had been repossessed from the property.

Unidentified Speaker 2 (Staff member) told the meeting that the item—listed as "Number 4" on the agenda—concerned authorization to correct assessed value on a 2024 cash tax bill for account number 760010640 in School District 6. "It is there was a mobile home sitting on this property, and evidently, it must have got repossessed and taken away," Speaker 2 said, and recommended removing the mobile-home value from the tax roll. Speaker 2 said the specific correction under consideration was $127; the motion to approve that correction was seconded and passed when those present voted "Aye."

Speaker 2 also described several related adjustments tied to a parcel split of roughly 20 acres and a set of additional dollar changes (transcript references include $20.25 and $387). Staff said the split had not been completed before tax statements were mailed and that the split produced a new account number that did not exist in the system at the time the statements went out. "So I'm doing it as an omitted for the 243," Speaker 2 said, describing the paperwork approach to complete the correction while preserving the same total tax dollars but reallocating them between two owners.

One correction could not be processed during the meeting because the new account number had not yet appeared in the county system; Speaker 2 said that item would be handled after the meeting. "I'm gonna do it as soon as we leave here... Make sure that the other the $2.43 that we took off here is on that paperwork," Speaker 2 said, and indicated they would complete the necessary entries immediately after adjournment.

The meeting concluded after a formal motion to adjourn; the motion was seconded and approved with an "Aye" vote.

The corrections approved and described at the meeting involve administrative adjustments to assessed values and do not, according to staff remarks during the session, change the county's total tax dollars—rather, they reassign amounts between accounts following a repossession and property split. Additional paperwork and system updates were required to finalize some of those corrections, and staff said they would complete those tasks following the meeting.