The Warren County Board has approved Eagleview Aerial Imagery to work with the county assessor and take photographs to provide accurate property assessment data to manage programs and infrastructure within the county, explains Buildings and Grounds Chairman Sean Cavanaugh:
“People might have built over the years and did not pull a building permit and are not paying property taxes on that particular structure. With this imagery product, we will be able to equalize everything, and everyone is paying their fair share. It could be that someone bought let’s say a house, and they didn’t know that the guest house or shed or whatever wasn’t included in their property taxes, this will allow us to play catch up and have everyone paying for their property taxes for their properties. We just want to get them started paying now. We are not looking towards the past. For whatever reason it was not included in the tax rolls, we are just going to move forward with it and not look towards the past because that really might be a twist on somebody. We just want to even things out for everyone, so they pay their fair share.”
Warren County officials anticipate it will take two years to obtain all the data from the photographs to reassess people’s property. The county assessor and Warren County Sheriff’s Department will be the only individuals with access to these photographs.
