The Warren County Board has approved the use of aerial photography to assist with the assessment of property values, explains Supervisor of Assessments Mike McVey:
“There are only three of us that work in the assessors office in the county and there are four township assessors to cover all of the county. That is seven people, three full-time and four part-time, to cover 14,000 parcels. A lot of other counties our size are switching to aerial photography because that way we can see what we need to see or take measurements through the satellite imagery from the office. In the past we have always attempted to do what they call a Quadrennial Reassessment, reassess every property every four years, but it was set up for the whole county to be every fourth year. We are going to attempt to break the county up into four assessment districts to do a quarter of the county each year, which the state encourages. The state also does have to approve it, so we don’t know if we can start that in 2025 or 2026.”
McVey informs the aerial imagery of Warren County properties will not be invasive, they will happen in the winter time, and will be taken from an airplane, not a drone.
