30 - LCAD Board Member AppointmentItem No. 30
Memorandum
TO: Mayor, Mayor Pro -Tem, & City Council
Grayson Path, City Manager
FROM: Janice Ellis, City Clerk
SUBJECT: LAMAR COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER
DATE: September 25, 2023
BACKGROUND: Every two years the City must provide the Chief Appraiser the name of its
nominee to serve on the LCAD board and cast its votes accordingly. All of the taxing entities are
allowed to nominate people to serve on the LCAD board. An entity's number of votes is
determined by a formula: [(entity tax levy divided by total tax levy) times 1,000] times 5. This is
not a straight appointment by the Council, but an election by the taxing jurisdictions based on
their relative tax levies. The current board members whose terms are expiring December 31,
2023, and wish to serve again are Clifton Fendley, David Dunmon, Kenneth Kohls, and Don
Biard.
STATUS OF ISSUE: The City must send their nomination(s) to the Lamar County Appraisal
District by October 15. The LCAD will prepare a ballot and return to the City and the City may
cast votes for as many nominees as they wish or cast all votes for single nominee. The actual
vote must be done by resolution in open meeting between October 31 and December 15.
BUDGET: NA
RECOMMENDATION: Nominate a candidate(s) for the LCAD board.
LAMAR COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT
903-785-7822 FAX: 903-785-8322 521 Bonham P. O. Box 400 Paris, TX 75461-0400
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chief Appraiser Stephanie Lee, RPA, CCA
Clifton Fendley, Chairman Director of Collections Pat Loven, RTA
Don Biard, Secretary
David Dunmon Director of Operations Sue Shelton, RPA
Kenneth Kohls
Marcus Wood
September 7, 2023
Dear Taxing Unit,
It is time for the tax units of Lamar County to elect members to the Appraisal District's Board of
Directors. As the election administrator for this process, I must notify you of the timetable, each tax
unit's votes based on the 2022 tax levies and give your tax unit the right to nominate a member or
members to the board. Please see that this is passed on to your Presiding Officer -a requirement of law.
Per state law, we have five members of the Board of Directors. There are no staggered terms,
so all board member positions are up for election. Your tax unit has the right to nominate, by resolution
of your governing body, up to five people. There is no requirement for you to nominate anyone if you
do not want to do so. Any person living in Lamar County and who has been a resident of this county for
the past two years is eligible to serve. Employees of tax units other than elected officials are not eligible
for board service.
The members of the current Board are not automatically nominated so if your tax unit wishes to
re -nominate them, please feel free to do so or nominate anyone else that you wish. The board
members who are willing to continue to serve are: Clifton Fendley, David Dunmon, Kenneth Kohis, Don
Biard.
The nominations should be returned to me at the appraisal district address by October 15, 2023.
1 will prepare a ballot and return it to your tax unit. Your tax unit will then be able to cast votes for as
many nominees as they wish or cast all votes for a single nominee. The actual vote must be done by
resolution of your tax unit in an open meeting between October 31 and December 15. The resolution
should be returned to me as soon as it is completed. The successful board members will be announced
by December 20 and will be sworn in at the first meeting in 2024.
1 have enclosed a resolution that you may use for the nominations process. If you have any
questions about the elections process, feel free to contact me.
Sincerely yours,
Chief Appraiser
Enclosure
ELECTIONS TIMETABLE
Before October 1- Deliver notice to county judge, commissioners, the presiding
officer of each tax unit, city manager of each town that has one, to the city
secretary, to the presiding officer and superintendent of each school district, and
to the presiding officer of the board of the junior college, and the president of the
college a letter giving them notice of the election for the board of directors of the
appraisal district and the number of votes allocated to each tax unit.
Before October 15- receive nominations from each tax units for members of the
boa rd
Before October 30- prepare a ballot and list the names of the nominees in
alphabetical order and send the ballot to the presiding officer of each tax unit
entitled to vote.
Voting occurs in each tax unit by resolution (official action) of each tax unit.
Those resolutions are due not later than December 15.
Before December 31, the chief appraiser declares the winning board members
and submits the results to the tax units.
NOMINATION RESOLUTION
WHEREAS the Texas Property Tax Code allows tax jurisdictions to nominate up to five
people to serve on the Board of the Lamar County Appraisal District for a term of office
of two years beginning January 1, 2024;
AND WHEREAS,
a person or persons to said Board;
desires to nominate
AND WHEREAS, said tax unit recognizes the importance of cost-effective operations of
the Appraisal District,
NOW THEREFORE, we hereby nominate the following person or persons for a
position on the Board of Directors of the Lamar County Appraisal District.
Approved on this the day ofw „ 2023.
Presiding Officer of Tax Unit
Attest, Secretary of the Tax Unit
ELECTION VOTE ALLOCATION
TAXING UNIT 2022 LEVY PERCENTAGE VOT„�
City of Blossom
$ 320,967.98
0.0038
19
City of Deport
$ 133,319.93
0.0016
8
City of Paris
$ 10,458,765.39
0.1229
614
City of Reno
$ 1,090,446.07
0.0128
64
City of Roxton
$ 152,174.67
0.0018
9
Paris Junior College
$ 4,281,240.09
0.0503
251
Chisum ISD
$ 13,406,968.23
0.1575
788
Honey Grove ISD
$ 75,628.86
0.0009
4
North Lamar ISD
$ 17,718,980.91
0.2082
1041
Paris ISD
$ 15,339,330.31
0.1802',
901
Prainand ISD
$ 5,979,157.01
”
0.0702
351
Lamar Count
16162183.67
0.1899
M� 949
$ 85,119,163.12
100.0000%
5000