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Assessor urges board to fund appraiser role and desktop-review tools to chip away at 6,000-permit backlog
Summary
Assessor Armando Ruiz told the board the office can accelerate clearing a 6,000-permit queue if it can shift resources, add one trained appraiser role and expand desktop (aerial imagery) reviews; he urged a mix of hires and technology while warning training for commercial appraisers takes years.
Assessor Armando Ruiz told the Coconino County Board of Supervisors that his office needs a mix of staff and technology to address a persistent backlog of building permits that remains on the assessor—s unreviewed queue.
"We receive annually about 2,000 new permits and had a baseline of roughly 6,000 going into the year," Ruiz said, adding that nearly half of permit activity the office receives comes from the City of Flagstaff. He cautioned that "this is permit value — it's not taxes, it's not property assessments. This is just the total value that the permitting entity has assigned to those projects," and said only a…
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