2009 Kitsap County Budget Book - Kitsap County Government

ASSESSOR
Historical Trends/Industry Standards
• Increased total budget expenditures are a result of
Assessor FTEs
fluctuating health benefits reserves.
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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• Due to technology investment, system efficiencies
internal reorganization and increased labor
productivity the FTE count in the Assessor
Department has been declining.
• Paperless systems for parcel record maintenance
and appeal processing have caused moderate
reductions to supply costs.
II.
Purpose:
The Assessor is required by law to distribute the property tax burden within Kitsap County. This is done by equitably
valuing property, setting individual taxing district levies based on those values, administering tax relief (exemption)
programs and maintaining all assessment records. The above services shall be provided in a courteous, efficient and
understandable manner.
III. 2008 Accomplishments:
a. Revalued all property in Kitsap County.
b. Physically inspected all residential and commercial property in Bainbridge Island, Indianola, and Suquamish.
c. Added all newly built commercial and residential improvements and remodels to the tax roll.
d. Processed all personal property listings and made estimates on all accounts where listings were not received.
e. Added all new subdivisions to the tax roll and processed all requested boundary line adjustments, splits and
merges.
f. Audited income of 25% of all senior/disabled exemptions, while adding and deleting accounts as appropriate.
g. Responded to all Board of Equalization, State Board of Tax Appeals and Superior Court appeal petitions and
lawsuits.
h. Processed all new applications and removals from “current use” classification.
i. Process all destroyed property claims.
j. Converted the recheck and appeals tracking and filing system to paperless in conjunction with the Board of
Equalization.
k. Provided public access to all records associated with the assessment process.
IV. 2009 Goals and Objectives:
a. Do a-j above as we did in 2008, except the physical inspection area shifts to the City of Bremerton and
surrounding area.
b. Work with IS to convert our computer assisted mass appraisal system (PROVAL) from an oracle to a sequel
server database.
c. Encourage increased usage of the personal property on-line filing system.
d. Send email personal property listings and notice of value to all on-line filers in lieu of standard mail delivery.
e. Reduce the statistical measurements of uniformity (coefficient of dispersion) while maintaining one of the lowest
ratios of staff to parcel count and dollars per parcel in the state.
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