There is a message at the top of the the Fisher County Appraisal District website that states: "Attention land owners, we are currently correcting land values due to a system mistake. Please bear with us as we correct these errors. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused."
I think it would have been better to send letters to the landowners, or to have placed an article in the newspaper, instead of issuing a random notice on the internet. They sure didn't spare a stamp to give me notice that they were doubling land valuation on scrap lots I own, where the only improvement I've made is mowing.
The Fisher CAD still operates under a cloak of darkness, despite the scandalous embezzlement committed by a clerk and the questionable actions of the appraiser that formerly ran that office.
The meetings are not publicized. Notices of the agenda aren't placed in the paper, minutes are not printed afterwards. I have seen no news of the rearrangement of the board since the chairman died, no mention of candidates that the entities have put forward to fill that vacancy, other than the commissioner's choice of Micah Evans, announced during a video of a commissioners meeting.
It is puzzling that there is not more scrutiny of the appraisal district's activities. Their actions affect every citizen in the county.
