ATLANTA — A county tax appraiser on the team that studied Fulton County’s tax assessor’s office said Wednesday he believes the department is on the right track after past missteps.
Stephen White, the chief appraiser in Cobb County, was appointed by the Georgia Department of Revenue to investigate the department at the request of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, in light of issues with the tax digest.
"They have some inefficiencies and some processes that just need to be refined and tuned because they're a big operation -- a lot of employees, a lot of parcels," White told Channel 2's Mike Petchenik. "I just think they've got some things they can improve upon."
Petchenik asked White what he deemed to be incompetence.
The yearlong review found incompetence, lack of training and a possible conflict of interest in the department.
“I think it was just maybe lack of common sense of employees that were handling certain scenarios,” he said.
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