Unencumbered by the thought process!

Those of you who don't know - I am an appointed Tax Judge for Sacramento County.

Today, I had the honor of helping our Clerks enter the assessment appeal applications for the 2008-2009 tax year. I was shocked that we have 18 boxes filled with applications! It appears each box holds about 500 appeals... that means we have 9,000 appeals to log into the system. It took me about 5 minutes to log in a simple single family appeal and 20 minutes for a larger commercial appeal.

Just doing simple math would mean it will take over 120 business days or 24 weeks to get them all entered and ready to send to the assessor for review and then, if necessary, schedule a hearing.

At this pace - the next filing period will be here before all appeals will be logged!