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Marion County Assessor
DOUGLAS SCHMIDT
OCCUPATION: Commercial
Property Appraiser, Polk County Assessors Office
OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Property
Appraiser, Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs; Army, Military Police
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Associates
Degree in Real Estate Technology, Chemeketa Community College
PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: None
Douglas wants to bring a fresh vision, a fresh
attitude and a fresh accountability to the office of Marion County
Assessor. As an outsider to the Marion County Office, he doesn’t
believe it can be business as usual anymore.
Douglas wants the Assessors Office to be an example of
how the total assessment process should be done: An example in efficiency,
in the use of technology and of accountability to the taxpayer.
- Integrate the Total Assessment Process
- Take Advantage of Technology
- Manage How and Where Assessor Employees are
- Recalculate Property Values Every Year
- Utilize and Update Web Sites
Douglas has the knowledge to lead the Marion County
Assessors Office. His current employer, Polk County Assessors Office, has
been a leader in the use of technology and innovation to streamline and
improve the assessment process and the valuation of property. He believes
these same methods and practices can allow Marion County to be the example
it should be.
Douglas has the experience to lead the Marion County
Assessors Office. As an appraiser with over 25 years of experience, the
last 13 years as the Polk County Commercial Property Appraiser, he has
appraised a wide variety of property. There have been properties as
different as the Capitol Manor complex in West Salem to a 1,300 acre hop
farm and its equipment. Douglas has dealt with taxpayers, public officials,
attorneys, business owners and Tax Court Judges. He has defended values
before the local appeals board and the Tax Court.
Douglas has the experience and the knowledge to be
your Marion County Assessor.
ENDORSED BY: Mike Propes,
Polk County Commissioner
Ron Dodge, Polk County Commissioner
Tim Lutz, Tillamook County Assessor
(This information furnished by Douglas Schmidt
and is printed exactly as submitted.)
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