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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 55, Number 048 830-379-2234
New chief appraiser already hard at work, office also recognizes former leader Appraiser Peter Snaddon who was named to the position last month.
In his recognition of Osborne's dedication, Snaddon says he hopes to continue the great work started by her leadership. He says a key component in continuing that relationship is working closely with the public. "That's a big aspect of it -- working with the public and trying to communicate in a manner that they feel like they are being heard because that's important to us. Because sometimes, when they walk in and have some perceptions of the district and what we do here and things don't always go the way you want -- value wise -- but hopefully, they understand that what we are doing here is a solid approach to appraising their property and they leave here with an understanding that they were heard -- which is the main thing -- and hopefully, the outcome is something that we both can feel good about," said Snaddon.
The Guadalupe Appraisal District welcomes new chief appraiser Peter Snaddon. By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- The Guadalupe Appraisal District is recognizing its past leadership while also welcoming a new chief appraiser. The appraisal district board of directors recently recognized former Chief Appraiser Jamie
Osborne with a service award for her many years to Guadalupe County. Osborne retired last last year after serving the office for the past 23 years. Since that time, the workload has been transferred over to the hands of new Chief
Snaddon acquired the top position after having served 12 years with the local office. He still, however, had to go through the application process -- a process he believes has helped layout its future. "I think we are at 36 to 37 full-time employees right now and that's one of the things for my interview here with the board was my goal here was going to be to improve poten-
tially -- maximizing the tools available as far as technology -- our systems and stuff to improve on efficiently. I think we've got a full staff and I think we can maximum the software as well as the new technology that comes out with integrations a lot of times with the iPads and stuff like that for the appraisers while we are on the field. My thought was geared towards improving hopefully the work flow as well as the efficiency to maximize that as much as possible. Saves the tax dollars," said Snaddon. As part of the interview process for the job, Snaddon says he provided a growth snapshot of the county to help outline the vision for the appraisal office. "So, I did a 10 year analysis of the growth patterns for the past 10 years and looking out to 2029 and we've been right around that 2.8 to somewhere around 3.5 percent growth countywide. Obviously, there's some cities that are definitely growing a lot quicker -- Cibolo on the west side but everything that I've seen and speaking with developers -because of the cost of the development in these west side communities is always increasing, Seguin should get a good windfall of the development in the next 10 years," said Snaddon. See APPRAISER, page 7