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Show County Assessor Attends School Held At Richfield At the request of the State Tax Commission, G. B. Workman, Work-man, county assessor, attended a special meeting for assessors in the southern part of the state at the Richfield courthouse on "Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1954. The purpose of the meeting was to study the new uniform accounting account-ing system and the necessary equipment needed to change to the new system. According to Mr. Hammond, Tax Commissioner, all counties of the state are to use the new system for 1955. Mr. Workman stated that while it will be quite expensive to change to the new system, the added cost would soon be written off because be-cause of the improved system and the elimination of duplication. dupli-cation. The assessment roll, assessor's as-sessor's blotter, the valuation notices will all be done in one operation by the assessor's office. of-fice. With the old system, the assessor made up the assessment, assess-ment, entered it on the roll books; the treasurer then went over the same work to get the valuation notices for the taxpayers. tax-payers. Instead of the large roll books, each property owner will have a card set up on a five-year five-year plan under a serial number num-ber so that he or anyone can readily see the assessments made over the five-year period. According to Mr. Workman, it really will be an improvement over the old system. However, it means that the assessor must be one who not only has education enough to be able to evaluate property of all types, survey and figure acreage according to its meets and bounds, plat the same according to its location, shape, and size according to scale, be able to determine whether all recorded deeds have proper descriptions, measure and figure the value of buildings according to size, type, location, material and age; but he must be a first-rate bookkeeper book-keeper and understand and know how to use the typewriter, calculator, stencil cutting machine, ma-chine, and the addressograph machine. He must issue tax releases re-leases and license plates, be personally per-sonally acquainted with all sections sec-tions of the county, supervise field and office deputies, see that some 6,000 parcels of land are properly entered and evaluated. eval-uated. The, job of the assessor, if not already, will soon become one for only a highly specialized individual. |