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Assessor says reappraisal will affect levy; office cites $2.6M recovered annually from audits
Summary
Assessor Burgess and his chief administrator told commissioners the 2025 reappraisal will materially affect assessed values and that contracted audits of tangible personal property have returned roughly $2.6 million in recoveries in prior years; commissioners sought precise projections.
Assessor Melvin Burgess told the budget subcommittee the upcoming 2025 reappraisal will change assessed values countywide and noted the assessor's appropriation is a small fraction of the levy it helps produce. Burgess emphasized the office's leverage: "The assessor's physical impact on the county's overall tax levy is approximately 1%. That is a 99% return on the physical investment," he said.
During questioning, Burgess and Chief Administrator Javier Bailey clarified that the term "missing parcels" in earlier remarks mainly referred to tangible personal property schedules for businesses rather than unrecorded real estate. Burgess said the county contracts audits that have recovered approximately $2,600,000 in prior years when schedules were incomplete, and he urged additional focus on personal-property compliance to boost collections.
Commissioners asked for more precise projections of how a fully staffed appraisal team would affect revenue; Burgess said those estimates will be included in his forthcoming succession plan and associated staffing analyses, which he will provide to the committee.
