Good morning.

Welcome to the May 19, 2026 volume adjustment board meeting.

Would you all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America in the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God individual with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Please be seated.

Under public comments, we welcome public comment from petitioners about any issue or concern related to the petition that's before us.

It's a I think it was a six-page recommendation listing all the factors, all the evidence, the entire I reviewed the entire audio, the um the uh the documentation in the file as well.

So I feel confident Ms.

Holman has um followed the rules in compliance and that the recommendation meets the requirements of the law for the board to consider today.

I was hoping that the petitioner would also be present be present.

I don't know if the property appraiser has any comment before y'all vote on all the recommendations today, but I wanted to bring it to the court or to the um board's attention so that you were aware.

Would a representative from the property appraiser like to make a comment on this?

Anyone here from the property appraiser's office?

What's that?

Would you like to make a comment regarding the complaint that was filed?

I'm sorry, sir.

Are you addressing me?

Yeah, yes.

That's okay.

I'm I'm I'm I'm Rick Rape, uh director of evaluation for the property appraisers office.

How can I help you?

Yes, uh, we received a complaint um that was filed and reviewed.

We were just wondering if you had any comment regarding this particular complaint or if you were aware of it at all.

The complaint was um directed at the uh the value adjustment board process, and I think that the clerk did everything right and the magistrate did everything right.

I understand that the the lady that's filing the complaints not happy with the homestead issues, but those are beyond the control of the property payers' office, it's all determined by law and statute.

So everyone did I assure you everyone did the right thing.

If we had uh been able to give her homestead, we would have, but we could not.

Okay, so very good.

Thank you.

And just for the board's information, uh, as you all are well aware, um, if you do approve her recommendation today, that's not the end all be all.

She does have the ability, all of our petitioners have the ability to appeal to um the circuit court and get a brand new hearing, all new facts, new judge, everything like it never happened here.

So is there a disposition we need to take care of with this?

Um, if you're going to um make any motions as to that one individually, you would do that.

If not, you can include it in approval of the phase two recommendations.

That's the board's um pleasure.

Okay, is there any other comment regarding this complaint?

Um, just that uh this will the written complaint will be in the official file as requested and everything right.

Yeah, yes, it is.

And and the copies that we have here are cut off a little bit that we provided to the board.

I do want to assure the board the my understanding is that the entire magistrate notes were available to everyone, and so that they're not cut off in our official file.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Any other further comments?

Seeing none if there's no motion to exclude it from the phase two recommended decisions, we'll just include that in there.

So fine.

So with that being said, is there any comments regarding the uh phase two recommended decisions that have been provided to us from the board?

Any no, I make a motion to approve.

Sir second second, second.

All those in favor of the motion say aye.

Aye.

All opposed, same sign?

Motion carries.

Um we have the certification of the 2025 real and tangible assessment rules.

Do we have any comments or discussion on item number five from anybody?

No hearing none.

Any is there a motion to accept and certify?

Motion to accept and certified motion made by Ms.

Rindon.

Was it seconded by Commissioner Sabega?

Okay, Commissioner Sabeta.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye, all opposed, saying sign, hearing none.

Motion carries.

Um we have the item number six to approve the March meeting VAB minute meeting minutes.

Is there any recommendations for changes, amendments, or corrections?

No motion to approve.

Motion approved is there a second.

Second, all those in favor say aye.

Aye, all those opposed, same sign.

Motion carries.

We're moving right along here.

Other VAB matters.

We have anything that you'd like to bring before us, ma'am.

No, we just have some some BAP statistics.

Can you tell me the second for the previous motion?

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

I'm sorry, yes.

I apologize.

We just have um the BAP statistics in background showing um prior years from 2019 up until now.

It's a comparison.

And I have our meeting notice showing that the meeting was properly advertised.

And we have some information from the Florida Department of Revenue in your background.

And just for the um the board's information, we're still working on the audit.

Yes.

And we haven't gotten a final role or an intern, you know, interim report, but as soon as we do, we also are instituting we'll be meeting after this session with the clerk before the next season, be instituting some additional improvements through the process and also reviewing those audit notes to make sure we've um implemented those any items that have may or may not have come up through that process.

So I think we expected those late summer, right?

I think that's kind of what they indicated from the state.

He did, but uh yeah, he's been on vacation here and then so it's kind of pushing out, and he's doing other counties as well.

So we're still sending correspondence back and forth.

But we're we're moving forward like yes, we've always been doing no issues there.

But we're no, we're just learning from the process and instituting better procedures as we go along.

So that's that's what it's there for.

Yeah, so we're finding it as the legislation change.

Absolutely.

It seems like that's a moving target always.

Anything uh that pops up in the statistical comparison that uh you found interesting, just curious.

No, just that we have uh a lot more groups.

This is every year's different, so we've got uh slew of groups um trying to get all those heard.

Yeah, yeah, it's been very difficult.

I think that's a typical complaint, not a complaint, but an issue that all the property or the clerk's office are facing this year.

The number of petitions, share petitions from um representatives in large groups is significant, not just here, but in all my counties that I represent.

Right.

Okay.

Well, thank you.

I appreciate you putting all the information together.

Can we show the record that he okay?

We're good.

All right.

Um would you like to offer anything, sir?

You're good.

Oh yeah, yeah, I understand.

Is there any other comments that anyone else would like to bring before the board before we close?

Um, I just like to tell the board how wonderful your clerk's office is and how hard they work.

And you know, I I work with a lot of counties every day, and this team is pretty amazing.

So I just want to commend them for getting through another season, and this one was a particularly difficult one, and I appreciate all they do, not only to make your lives easier, but my life easier.

So thank you very much.

I I would agree with that.

Yeah, we do have a wonderful clerk's office, and uh you know the clerk of the you know, clerk Chris is really uh cares about his people and uh you know tries to give you all the tools to do what you need to do, and I appreciate I appreciate we all do the fantastic work you do.

Thank you guys and ladies.

I appreciate you bringing that up.

Well, if there's nothing further, no other comments, no other discussion.

We'll close the meeting.

941.

Thank you very much.