The Horry County Administrative Committee met on February 25, 2025, to discuss property tax reassessment results, Coast RTA budget revisions and transit plans, employee health assessment changes, congressional funding requests, an interfund loan for a special tax district, community funding allocations, and a proposed trial of wind-driven shading devices on county beaches.
They didn't uh they they can't operate on the second floor because OSHA won't give them permission and so we have to reduce the square footage or something like that. It's very rarely a difference of opinion, it's usually a difference of fact. It's just something that we didn't know about the property that we became aware of through the process, and once we amended the value, the taxpayer accepted it and we moved on. Umward, we will clean up the last of these appeals over the next 30 days or so. We'll begin to use the appeals data to identify any potentially modeling issues that we had to create higher accuracy of the appraisals going forward with the ATIs, and then also indicate hot spots, growth areas, and use uh some of the tools that we've got with our new software to assist our appraisers visually. I I brought a couple of things, I'll just let you guys uh take a look at these. These are some of the maps that we are able to create now that we've got better integration with our data software, so we can visualize these. So, what I did for y'all is I I put a couple of uh maps in here that are broken down by council district. And if you look, the first map you've got there is is our new growth. Uh so for the 2024 year any new construction, we took the the total new construction, placed it geographically inside those council districts, and then assigned a percentage of this is the percentage of the new growth that each district received. So you can kind of see that, and then on the next page, you can see um the percentage that your district looked at for appeals. And you can see just about everybody's somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3% of your parcel base. Uh so uh pretty even and uniform, which is one of the goals that we are tasked with by the state law is to assess fairly and equitably uh across all political boundaries, which we certainly have done. You can see by the reaction to and the number of appeals from each. We don't have any hot spots, we don't want them. Uh we want to make sure that we're doing things evenly. So uh as we're going forward, and on the slide there, I just put that up for everyone to see. That's uh an example of what we're gonna do. Uh Shannon, since she has uh taken over the administrative division that's challenged us to try to be a little more creative and a little more innovative with some of the things that we're working towards. So we're pushing the mapping side of our of our office uh to to begin to help these appraisers. Staring at spreadsheets is is one way of of ascertaining things, but when you can take the data that's in that spreadsheet and visually represent it like this, uh it quickly helps you draw the conclusions. You know, if if somebody says, well, where is the bulk of the growth coming from? You can take a look at this and quickly uh ascertain that. The third uh map that you've that you've got. I hope. No, I'm sorry. So the next map that you would want to look at then is just okay. Well, there's the growth, thanks, and there's the appeals, but where is it really located? Is it in a major corridor? Is it in a development district? Why am I seeing an increase in growth? So that'll be the next step for us is to continue to dig deeper and and map it more, you know, go from that 50,000 view to that 5,000 view to that microscopic view and really be able to see what we're doing rather than just sending out a spreadsheet and hoping everybody gets it. A picture is just worth a thousand words. So we're gonna work on expressing a lot more of our appraisal data in visual format, not only for our appraisers, but for the consumers of our product like like you guys. So uh that's what we'll be working on going forward. So I appreciate your time. All in all, I would say that it was a ridiculously successful reassessment. Um I'm sure that just by the number of phone calls that you did not get this year. Um I think we we really did have good acceptance. I'll give PIO a lot of credit for that. They were pumping the information out to make sure that our media partners and our users of social media had the information in a timely manner so they knew what was coming, what to do if they weren't satisfied, and how they could best advantage themselves to to deal with the reassessment that was coming. So I give them a lot of thanks uh for getting our message out there as well. So thank you guys, appreciate your time. I have to say it was a lot easier than I thought it would be going through the cause. Man, I learned a lot. Thank you. We always do reassessment here. We always do. Thank you. I appreciate it.