Yakima County Assessor

Description

The Assessor is responsible for the appraisal of all real and taxable personal property in the County. The office is also responsible for administering senior citizen and disabled person exemptions. The Assessor also calculates all levy information from the various taxing districts as well as audits the amounts requested to insure they do not exceed the lawful limits. New parcel information and maintaining the parcel mapping for the County is also a duty of this office. Salary: $89,844

Application Guidelines

The filing window for this position begins the Monday two weeks prior to Memorial Day and ends on the Friday of that week (5 days). Candidacy filing papers can be acquired at and are submitted to either the county elections office or the Secretary of State Office in Olympia. For non-partisan offices, if there is only two candidates filed for a position they will run against each other in the November election. If more than two candidates file for a non-partisan office, than the non-partisan office will go through the August primary and the top two vote getters will advance to the November election for the seat. For a partisan office, the candidates will run in the August primary even if only two people are participating. This may create scenarios where the same candidates participate for the same seat in the August primary and November election. For any further questions, the Yakima County Elections office can be reached at 509-574-1340 or [email protected] and the Secretary of State Office can be reached at (360) 902-4151 or [email protected]. ***Washington is one of the only states with online filing for candidacy. For more information regarding filing online, please see here: http://wa-yakimacounty.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/Home/View/7297

Submit application to:
Yakima County Auditor, 128 N 2nd St #117, Yakima, WA, 98901, US