Assessor: solar project estimates based on submitted costs and local land-value models
County valuation staff said estimates shared with a solar developer and callers used costs provided by the developer (batteries, panels, fencing) combined with the county's local land-value and cost models; staff emphasized the figures are estimates and that final valuations require completed project data.
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Commissioners and members of the public spent an extended portion of the meeting questioning county valuation staff about how taxes would be calculated for large renewable projects. 'When they first when the sparks all started ... he did get in contact with me. Um, so I just use numbers I was given by them for parts of it such as the uh like the cost of the batteries, um, the panels and all that stuff,' a county valuation staffer said when explaining the source data used to produce tax estimates.
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