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Real property office cleared to fill positions; committee approves tax-bill correction after assessor error

Columbia County Board of Supervisors (committee meeting) · February 18, 2026
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Summary

The committee authorized filling a data-collector position and creating a real-property research technician role by repurposing budgeted funds; the board also approved relief tied to a corrected tax bill after an assessor subdivision error (transcript numbers partially garbled; see clarifying_details).

The real property deputy director sought and received committee authorization to fill a budgeted data-collector position (previously granted an emergency fill) and to create a real-property tax research technician position by reallocating funds from a frozen tax-map supervisor post. Staff said the change creates an approximate $23,000 budget surplus to retain for possible part-time summer help.

Separately, staff presented a tax-bill correction arising from an assessor’s subdivision entry that had inadvertently carried forward parent-parcel assessments rather than recalculating new assessment values. Because the corrected tax amount exceeded the county’s administrative threshold, the committee reviewed documentation and approved the requested correction and associated relief. The transcript records the pre- and post-correction amounts but some numerals were garbled in the recording; the committee asked staff to confirm and file the corrected documentation with the clerk.