Consider Approval of Payment for Tax Audit Services Description: The district contracted with Pope Consulting to provide an audit of school district taxable property value for the past several years. This is a service that had previously been provided, at no cost, by an employee at the Tarrant County Appraisal District (TAD). This is a service that is not offered by all appraisal districts, and du

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I.4. Consider Approval of Payment for Tax Audit Services Description: The district contracted with Pope Consulting to provide an audit of school district taxable property value for the past several years. This is a service that had previously been provided, at no cost, by an employee at the Tarrant County Appraisal District (TAD). This is a service that is not offered by all appraisal districts, and due to unforeseen circumstances, TAD is not able to continue offering this service at this time. Pope Consulting audited several years of taxable property value and was able to recover $3,898,216 in revenue for the district. Their fee is 3% of recovered funds, which totals $116,947. This expense will be paid from the recovered funds.

This motion is scored as EXPANDS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 5.1/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, measures that increase tax rates or fee schedules, issue new debt or Certificates of Obligation, expand regulatory/zoning restrictions on private land use, or authorize unbudgeted spending expansions reduce an official's Freedom Score when voted YES (and reward dissenting NO votes).