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Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office

Dear Taxpayer: Public Services Support • 144 Impact Fee Records – This is a request for
Hello May! a building card from builders or homeowners who are
My st a f f i s busy Department searching to see if a structure ever existed on a vacant lot,
completing preparations and if so, its square feet, number of bedrooms, baths, etc.
for the 2021 estimated The Public Services Support department receives and If there was a structure, they can submit the building card
taxable property values, processes hundreds of public records requests annually. to the Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning and Building
which will be released to Data is derived from our geographical information system Department for an impact fee credit.
all Palm Beach County and appraisal/tax roll systems. We have several standard • 93 Custom/Specialized Reports – This could
taxing authorities later this reports and are able to create customized, specialized encompass any number of requests, such as:
month. Specific details will reports and maps based on the taxpayer’s needs. ○ Information from the tax roll by assessed value
be forthcoming. Last year, the Public Services Support team, a group
In the meantime, I’d like of five, managed: Property Appraiser’s Office on page 22
to provide an update on one of my top priorities when I • 733 Data Run Requests/Variances – This includes
became your property appraiser in 2017: shortening the address labels, maps, owner’s lists, and variances for when
petition process for taxpayers. a taxpayer’s planned use of their property deviates from
Property owners who would like to appeal an assessed local zoning. Attention:
value or denied exemption can file a petition with the • 109 Archive Records – This includes tax rolls and
Value Adjustment Board (VAB), which is administered building cards. Some of our records date back to 1977, PGA Residents Of
by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller. Once and homeowners request these records for income tax
all VAB hearings have been conducted, the final tax roll purposes. They usually want to know the value when the Mellowing Years
– and all changes approved by the VAB – is certified. property changed hands.
Shortening the timeframe of the tax roll’s final A single phone number may help you to live
certification allows my staff to focus all their efforts on confidently and gracefully in your own home.
the next tax roll. In 2019, we decreased the timeframe by Now there is a volunteer senior ambassador
nearly a month. This year, despite taking part in numerous within PGA community who is well-schooled
hearings, my staff successfully integrated telephonic in resources available to help with problems of
technology to make this the most efficient year yet. elders. The Alpert family and Children’s Services
We will continue to work with the VAB to streamline has been helping seniors do just that for many
the process and ensure efficiency and transparency for all years.
taxpayers in Palm Beach County. • You have questions? We may have answers.
In this month’s newsletter, we’ll review numbers from • You don’t know where to go? We can guide
the Public Services Support Department, which handles you.
most public records requests for my office. From address • You don’t know what you need? We’re well-
labels to customized reports, no matter how complex the versed in that problem.
request is, my staff is responsive and operates in a timely • Do you know a neighbor who needs help?
manner. Don’t wait. Call now. Dorothy Weiss, 624-
Respectfully, 4035. Let’s keep connected with each other as
Dorothy Jacks, CFA, AAS, Public Services Support Department: Bonnie Neff, CFE, a community. All you need is the desire to live
Palm Beach County Property Appraiser supervisor; Virginia Leonard, CFE, manager; Sade Neuforth, comfortably in your own home.
clerk II; Clarice Bethel-Laing, specialist; and Robert
Castillo, clerk II. Photo taken in 2019.

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