Officials Review Books Of Local Tax Appraisal District
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Officials Review Books Of Local Tax Appraisal District
Just more than two weeks after the chief tax appraiser resigned, officials spent the day Tuesday going over the books of a Central Texas tax appraisal district in what may be a prelude to a lawsuit.
Reporter: By Megan Fleetwood
Email Address: megan.fleetwood@kwtx.com
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(September 23, 2008)—A little more than two weeks after Coryell County’s chief tax appraiser resigned, officials spent the day Tuesday going over the books of the Coryell County Tax Appraisal District in what may be a prelude to a lawsuit.

Chief Appraiser Jerry Hoge submitted his resignation earlier this month.

On Tuesday, Coryell County Attorney Brandon Belt sat down with the Tax Appraisal District Board, accountants and legal representatives to go over three-years worth of bookkeeping.

It’s the latest development in a saga that started in April when Belt discovered the district owes the entities for which it appraises property more than $200,000 in operating cost overpayments.

State law requires any unspent money be refunded, or credited against what each entity owes for the following year.

Belt says the appraisal district has not been doing that.

Belt says what the review of the books reveals about the last three fiscal years will determine whether he recommends filing suit against the district, which he says owes Coryell County more than $30,000.

The main focus of the meeting Tuesday, however, was preparing the budget for the 2009 fiscal year, which was supposed to have been approved by Sept. 15, but which requires several corrections.

There will be a public budget hearing and the board will vote on the 2009 budget at the next meeting at 1 p.m. on Sept. 25 at the Appraisal District office in the Extraco Bank on West Main Street.

The Coryell Commissioners Court is set to discuss the possibility of legal action against the Appraisal District next Monday.
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