Culberson County Appraisal District
Appraisal Standards Review Follow-Up Report
June 8, 2009
The Honorable John Jones, Board Chairman
Ms. Sally Carrasco, Chief Appraiser
Culberson County Appraisal District
P.O. Box 550
Van Horn, Texas 79855-0550
Dear Chairman Jones and Chief Appraiser Carrasco:
This letter constitutes the Comptroller’s follow-up report of the Appraisal Standards Review (ASR) of Culberson County Appraisal District (Culberson CAD) originally released in May 2008. We commend the cooperation of Culberson CAD’s board, chief appraiser and staff in conducting this follow-up review.
CADs play an integral part in setting property values because they have the statutory responsibility for determining local property values, in turn affecting funding to public schools — a critical part of the state’s tax and education policies.
The ASR made six mandatory and five optional recommendations to help Culberson CAD achieve accurate local value in the annual Property Value Study and improve operations. We have reviewed the implementation of the recommendations and have concluded that Culberson CAD has completed implementing the mandatory recommendations and is therefore in compliance with Property Tax Code Section 5.102.
This letter is available on our Window on State Government Web site at www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/proptax/cadreports/asr/culberson01/.
I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.
Sincerely,
Susan Combs
Enclosure
cc: Superintendent and Board of Trustees, Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District
Culberson CAD Board of Directors