Van Zandt County Appraisal District
Appraisal Standards Review Follow-Up Report
March 23, 2009
The Honorable W.A. Daniels, Board Chairman
Ms. Brenda Barnett, Chief Appraiser
Van Zandt County Appraisal District
P.O. Box 926
Canton, Texas 75103-0926
Dear Chairman Daniels and Chief Appraiser Barnett:
This letter constitutes the Comptroller's follow-up report of the Appraisal Standards Review (ASR) of Van Zandt County Appraisal District (Van Zandt CAD) originally released in March 2008. We commend the cooperation of Van Zandt CAD's board, chief appraiser and staff in conducting this follow-up review.
CADs play an integral part in setting property values due to their statutory responsibility for determining the 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 recommendations to help Van Zandt 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 Van Zandt 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 Government Web site at www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/proptax/cadreports/asr/vanzandt01/.
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, Athens Independent School District; Brownsboro
Independent School District; Eustace Independent School District; Mabank Independent School
District; Lindale Independent School District; Canton Independent School District; Edgewood
Independent School District; Grand Saline Independent School District; Martins Mill
Independent School District; Van Independent School District; Wills Point Independent School District;and
Fruitvale Independent School District
Van Zandt CAD Board of Directors