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071 e e Harria6:ounty Appraisal District 280dW,rth Loop West, Houston, Texas Telephone: (713) 812-5800 Information Center: (713)957-7800 Mailing Addr...: OFFICE OF CHIEF APPRAISER P.O. Box 920975 iouston. TX 77292-0975 August 7, 2000 KA THERINE POWELl TAX ASSESSOR/COLLECTOR CITY OF LA PORTE POBOX 1115 LA PORTE TX 77571-1115 Dear Mrs. Powell: On August 4, 2000, the Appraisal Review Board approved the 2000 appraisal records under Section 41.12, Tax Code. These records, as approved, constitute this year's appraisal roll for the Harris County Appraisal District. Following approval, pursuant to Section 26.01 (a) of the code, the chief appraiser certifies to each taxing unit that part of the approved 2000 appraisal roll which contains properties taxable by the unit. My certification for your unit is enclosed. Please note that the certificate sets out two amounts. First, I have summarized the total market value and the taxable value of all approved accounts included on your certified roll. Second, I have listed my estimate of the taxable value which will be assigned to accounts currently under protest if the owners' claims are upheld by the appraisal review board. These accounts are listed on the paper hard copy of your roll with a flag of "HTS" and a value of "0", but are not included on your certified appraisal roll tape. Your certified roll includes, as of the date of ARB approval, values for those accounts on which no protest was filed, those on which a late protest was filed without "good cause" as determined by the ARB, and those on which a timely-filed or "good cause" late protest has been determined. Your actual certified roll does not incliJde the values of accounts still under protest (HTS); accounts on our tracking system (PTS) on which the valuation is incomplete and notices have not been mailed; accounts which are ready to notice, or accounts that have been sent notices of appraised value in the last 30 days (OTHER). Properties in these categories will be included in later supplemental rolls as required by Section 25.23, Tax Code. Your certification package contains a report titled "UNCERTIFIED" which summarizes by state property class the appraised and taxable values of alluncertified ~ccounts. It is important to note the total value shown on page 2 of this report differs from the taxable value shown for uncertified accounts on page 5 of the report titled "CERTIFIED TO DATE". The reason for this difference is that uncertified values on the "CERTIFIED TO DATE" report are reduced by substituting the owner's opinion of value and/or estimated hearing loss which we are required to calculate for accounts currently under protest. Also included in y.our certification materials is a sheet titled "WHERE TO FIND". This sheet notes where to find infonnation you will need to calculate the unit's effective and rollback tax rates. . CERTOI lIlY:" 01-'1-00 PC.CSH