FOR YEARS I simply built what I needed to build on my half-acre, accumulating a slew of red tags as I went. As it turned out, the County Assessor merely bumped up my property tax a modest bit, but calculating those increases against repeated trips over the hill for contradictory advice ...
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson and I both were born at San Francisco’s Children’s Hospital in May of adjacent years (him: ’69; me: ’70), making our origins as near to geographically identical as possible. I didn’t know him, but I do know him. We both know how to tie bow ties...
The purpose of the job is “to direct county assessors and project the market value for each class of property within the county, based on sales/appraisal studies done by position and staff,” according to a general summary of the job. The equalization director compiles state reports through...
On Friday, November 10, 2023 at approximately 3:41 PM, Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the report of a deceased adult male (identified as Charles Case, 58, of Lake County) washed ashore near the Ten Mile Dunes, north of McKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg. Deputies ar...
The resident, who asked to not be identified, lives near the location of the old firehouse near the intersection of State Route 20 and Babcock Lane. They told us the man appeared on their property around 8:15 this morning. Upon noticing the trespasser, the resident sounded their car’s ala...
The Assessor’s office has no idea who pays their bills, that would be the Tax Collector. If you are in compliance with your contract you will still benefit from the reduced property taxes the Williamson Act officers. Again, when you get your tax bill, if you have any questions, please ...
My goal is not to degrade the Assessor’s Office, but to tell you I have had a front row seat to witness a mass deterioration of a County office over the past two decades. All the tools to generate additional revenue for the County, such as finding unassessed properties, were severely ...
they cannot go further back. So money that the county should have been collecting was falling off. My estimate is millions have not been collected that should have been. So I emailed the Assessor's office and asked what the problem was. They called me to respond. They said that they were...
Jerry Roberts, now an assessor for Boulder County, was a recent college graduate when he first met his neighbors Joe and Cindy in 1973. Jerry came from West Virginia, but his other connection to Joe was musical; they spent most of their early friendship playing guitar together. Joe had an...