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Treasurer-Tax Collector Department recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 020-2019 amending the Authorized Personnel Allocation Resolution 132-2018 to add 1.0 FTE Revenue Recovery Officer I to the Treasurer-Tax Collector Department personnel allocation. (Est. Time: 5 Min.)
FUNDING: Departmental savings identified for Fiscal Year 2018/2019. For Fiscal Year 2019/2020, revenue generated from collection of delinquent Unsecured Taxes, Transient Occupancy Taxes, reducing the temporary employee budget and General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The Treasurer-Tax Collector Department staff includes one part-time, extra-help Revenue Recovery Officer I position. This position is responsible for field work. This work includes collections of delinquent tax accounts. These accounts include business equipment, boat, plane, mobile home and other similar types of accounts.
Current awaiting collection are 1,525 delinquent accounts, representing $807,206 in monies owed to the County. For the period of April 2018, through the beginning of December 2018, the extra-help Revenue Recovery Officer collected on 848 accounts amounting to $100,100. It is important to note that no other job classification in the Treasurer-Tax Collector Department is permitted, per the classification description, to perform the duties of field collections.
This extra-help position also posts notices on properties that will be listed for auction at the annual Public Auction Tax Sale. Such postings are a legal requirement prior to the County auctioning the property. Over the last three years, the County has posted notices on 226 parcels for property tax auction. The County received $4,223,206 in revenue from the most recent three public auctions, both from redemption prior to the sale and from actual sales. Those properties redeemed from tax sale typically make timely payments of property taxes in the future. While the tax sale takes significant effort by ...
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