Harris Central Appraisal District Board of Directors met June 18.
Here is the agenda provided by the board:
1. Call to Order.
2. Pledge of Allegiance and Salute to the Texas Flag.
3. Roll Call.
4. Recognition of Service Awards and Employees of the Month.
5. Comments from members of the public.
Speakers will be limited to three (3) minutes.
6. Report by a committee chair or a designee of the committee chair summarizing the result of the committee’s latest meetings.
CONSENT AGENDA
7. “All matters listed under consent agenda are considered to be routine and may be enacted by one motion, there will not be separate discussion of these items. If discussion of an item is desired, that item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately.”
a. Discussion and possible action to approve minutes of the regular meeting of May 21, 2025.
b. Receive the district’s monthly financial reports.
c. Receive report on payment of bills, payroll, and transfers of funds between line items. Discussion and possible action, if any, related thereto.
ACTION ITEMS
8. Discussion and possible action to schedule the date, time and place for a public hearing on the proposed 2026 budget.
9. Discussion and possible action to amend the Board of Directors’ Policy Manual to provide that the Budget & Finance Committee meetings will be posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act at the discretion of the committee chair.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
10. Report on protests and hearings, including iFile and iSettle activities .
11. Report on Business & Industrial Property Division’s 2025 notice status.
12. Report on the new web-based Jur Value Viewer to view Special Districts, Schools and Cities changes in value.
13. Discussion of HB 4310.
14. Report from the Taxpayer Liaison Officer concerning the status of all comments, suggestions, and complaints in accordance with Sec. 6.052(c), Tax Code.
15. Report from the Appraisal Review Board.
16. Discussion between members of the Board of Directors and the Chief Appraiser regarding matters covered by Sec. 6.15, Tax Code.
17. Executive session for the purpose of: (a) considering the appointment of appraisal review board members; and (b) private consultation with the board’s attorney regarding (i) pending and potential litigation, (ii) settlement of pending appeals to the State Office of Administrative Hearings, (iii) settlement of pending arbitrations under Texas Tax Code Chapter 41A, and (iv) settlement of pending litigation under Texas Tax Code Chapter 42; (c) considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer, or employee, including the duties and appointment of the chief appraiser; (d) considering the deployment, or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices; (e) deliberating the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property if deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the governmental body in negotiations with a third person, as permitted by the Open Meetings Act, Chap. 551, Government Code.
OTHER MATTERS AND ADDITIONAL ACTION ITEMS
18. Consider and approve settlement of pending litigation, pending appeals to the State Office of Administrative Hearings, and pending arbitrations.
19. Consider authorization of appeals under Sec. 42.02, Tax Code.
20. Adjournment.
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