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• • :~v. .:.,. HARRIS COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT MEMORANDUM OFFICE OF CHIEF APPRAISER TO: PRESIDING OFFICERS OF HARRIS COUNTY TAXING UNITS FROM: JIM ROBINSON, CHIEF APPRAISER ~ i SUBJECT: UPDATE ON ADDIT'fON OF MEii~IBER TO H!-I~iciS COUN i Y APPRAISAL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPRESENTING CONSERVATION & RECLAMATION DISTRICTS DATE: JULY 11, 1991 On Mazch 7, 1991, I sent you a memo reporting the boazd of directors' action of February 20, 1991, increasing the number of boazd members from five to six effective in 1992, and advising that the sixth member would be selected by vote of the conservation and reclamation districts which participate in the Harris County Appraisal District. The boazd's action was taken pursuant to the 71st Texas Legislature's 1989 amendment to Sec. 6.03, Texas Tax Code, which provides that conservation and reclamation districts may participate in the selection of members of the appraisal district boazd of directors. The boazd's action takes final effect on September 1, 1991. As most of you aze awaze, the so-called "three-quarter" rule applies to the Harris County Appraisal District. It provides that the voting taxing units may amend the normal statutory selection process of selecting members of the boazd of directors to provide a system more suitable to local conditions. In 1981, the county, cities and school districts of Harris County invoked the "three-quarter" rule and provided that one member of the appraisal district board of directors would be appointed by Harris County Commissioners Court, one by the Houston City Council, and one by the Board of Trustees of the Houston Independent School District. The cities, other than the City of Houston, each cast one vote to elect a boazd member representing those cities, and the school districts, other than Houston, each cast one vote to elect a school district representative to the board of directors. Section 6.03, as amended, prescribes the method by which conservation and reclamation districts may activate their right to participate in the selection of boazd members. Eazlier this yeaz, Hams County Municipal Utility District No. 67 properly and timely took the steps necessary to effect the entitlement of all such conservation and reclamation districts in Hams County to nominate and vote on members of the boazd of directors in the current yeaz by delivering to the chief appraiser a written request to nominate and vote on the boazd of directors.