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Some property assessment notices returned, but most addresses now correct

About 5 percent of the 15,000 assessment notices sent out at the end of December were returned to the Huntington County Assessor's office because they had been sent to outdated addresses.

County Assessor Terri Boone says all of the returned notices have been put in the mail again, bearing what she believes to be the addresses of the current owners.

"We're caught up right now," Boone said Wednesday, Jan. 13.

However, anyone who owns property in Huntington County and has not received a notice of assessment should contact the assessor's office at 358-4800, Boone says.

The notices of assessment list the property's assessed value for 2008 and the new assessed value for 2009.

While property tax bills will be based on that assessment, tax rates have not yet been finalized, making it impossible to figure tax bills.

Boone says the notices of assessment were sent to the owners of the properties on record as of March 1, 2009. Although sales of properties after that date were filed with the Huntington County Recorder's Office, Boone says, there is currently no coordination of that information between the recorder's office and the assessor's office.

That coordination did take place until about five years ago, Boone says, when each county office began handling its own software updates.

A software integration project is now under way, she says, and will result in automatic updates on information from the recorder's office to the assessor's, auditor's and treasurer's offices.

That project should be complete by the end of the year, Boone says.