Polk Chief Appraiser Chad Hill, Deputy Chief Shaun Walker and Appraiser/IT/Data Specialist Klint Wars of the Polk Central Appraisal District (CAD) provided a program for the Livingston Lions Club recently.
Chief Appraiser Chad Hill provided the following general information about the Polk CAD: 19 employees; 88,702 accounts; 20,176 homesteads; 30,613 homes; 6,127 AG and timber; 23,000 protests in five years; 26,000 deed transactions in five years; and 38,000 informal protests in five years.
He also reviewed six of the propositions that will be on the ballot in the Nov. 4 constitutional amendment election:
- Proposition 5 (HJR 99) “The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.”
- Proposition 7 (HJR 133) “The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a veteran who died as a result of a condition or disease that is presumed under federal law to have been service-connected.”
- Proposition 9 (HJR 1) “The constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.”
- Proposition 10 (SJR 84) “The constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for a temporary exemption from ad valorem taxation of the appraised value of an improvement to a residence homestead that is completely destroyed by a fire.”
- Proposition 11 (SJR 85) “The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to increase the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the market value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled.”
- Proposition 13 (SJR 2) “The constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district from $100,000 to $140,000.”
Wars reviewed how to navigate the Polk CAD website (polkcad.org), as well as how to make online requests. Walker reviewed how to search property, legal descriptions and values on the website.
