Lynn County Appraisal District
Appraisal Standards Review Follow-Up Report
August 13, 2009
Mr. Curtis Wilke, Board Chairman
Ms. Marquita Scott, Chief Appraiser
Lynn County Appraisal District
P.O. Box 789
Tahoka, Texas 79373-0789
Dear Chairman Wilke and Chief Appraiser Scott:
This letter constitutes the Comptroller’s follow-up review of the Appraisal Standards Review (ASR) of Lynn County Appraisal District (Lynn CAD) originally released in June 2008. We commend the cooperation of Lynn 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 four mandatory recommendations to help Lynn 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 Lynn CAD has completed implementing the recommendations and is therefore in compliance with Property Tax Code Section 5.102.
This letter is available on our Window on State GovernmentWeb site at www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/proptax/cadreports/asr/lynn01/.
I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.
Sincerely,
Susan Combs
cc: Superintendent and Board of Trustees, O’Donnell Independent School District;
Tahoka Independent School District; New Home Independent School District ;
and Wilson Independent School District
Lynn CAD Board of Directors