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Board of Equalization and Review Appeals Hearing

Orange County · Board of Equalization & Review
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Regular meeting Tax rate and revaluation

Agenda document Minutes Watch Meeting recap

What's on this agenda

Thirteen appeals scheduled at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 PM, most with attendance still to be confirmed. Two owners each bring two properties, and one appellant is a company appealing a business personal property abstract rather than land.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Nine decisions, adjourned at 3:52 PM. Four assessments stood and three came down, and in every case the board accepted the county's recommendation rather than revising it - a cleaner pattern than the board's other sittings that year, where it revised the county's figure in roughly a quarter of cases.

The scheduling tells its own story: thirteen slots booked and nine decided, with most appellants marked as attendance to be determined. Where an owner does not appear, the board decides on the written record and the appraiser's presentation.

The meeting closed with a consent agenda requiring a motion.

How the votes went

All thirteen matters, including the consent agenda, decided 3-0.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (1)

Procedural · 1
  1. 2 Hearing of Appeals
    Procedural Tax rate and revaluation
    Twelve property value appeals plus a consent agenda. Most were argued on condition and maintenance; one on incorrect data. Six assessments were reduced, two were raised, and four held unchanged. The largest cut took a property from $340,400 to $255,300.
    All decided 3-0

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