Additional Staff
About the Assessor
Overview
The Assessor is a statutory officer of the county. The County Assessor is responsible for accurately and uniformly determining the market value in the use of every property in the county. The State requires annual adjustments of assessments to reflect changes in the market. The Assessors in responsible for establishing assessed value of the property not the tax rate or tax bill.
Other Duties Include ...
- Oversees the General Reassessment process.
- Administer Sales Disclosure Process
- Collects sales information
- Processes Not-For-Profit Property Tax Exemption Applications
- Processes Heritage Barn Applications
- Insures countywide uniform Property Assessment Equalization.
- Acts as the Inheritance Tax Appraiser and represents the Inheritance Tax Division.
- Discovers and identifies omitted property.
- Calculates the assessed value of all real property in each taxing district.
- Verifies and review the self-reported values of all personal property in each taxing district.
- Calculates the total assessed value of each taxing district.
- Certify current Assessments to the County Auditor's Office.
- Utilizes recent sales of land (Sales Disclosures) to establish base market rates and values in each neighborhood, adjusts base values for location, nearness to amenities and other influence factors.
- Records property characteristics and determines real property assessments.
- Establishes boundaries for neighborhoods within their Township
- Utilizes recent sales of land (Sales Disclosures) to establish base market rates and values in each neighborhood within their Township, adjusts base values for location, nearness to amenities and other influence factors within their Township
- Serves as Member/Secretary of the County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals.