Assessment Practices Review Panel - St. Louis County

Current Assessment Practices
Finding Impact on TUF Key issues to
address
Insufficient quality of local
assessments and adjustment
boards can result in increased
cost for county including tax
court cases.
Local jurisdictions shift cost of
poor assessment practices to
county, impacting fairness of
system.
• Inadequate assessments can
result in increased cost at the
County Board of Appeals,
while the problem could have
been remedied at the local
level.
• Additional County staff time is
needed to address adjustment
quality issues. This impacts
other tasks of the County and
the ability to plan for (human)
resources needed.
Recommendations
• Build a coalition with the local
jurisdictions to promote a
universal approach to
managing local contractors.
Townships as the client are
responsible for managing the
performance of their local
assessor.
• Create a new position to
follow-up on the uniform
execution of processes
(including the TUF key
performance indicators).
• Inform the County Board
members about problems
with jurisdictions in their
district concerning the quality
of the assessment process.
• Ask County Board members to
make a statement of concern
regarding the integrity of the
assessment quality in these
jurisdictions.
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