KINGSTON, Tenn. -- State employees will be in town this week to take over what one official called Roane County's "fundamentally flawed" reappraisal process, and the county will get the bill for their work.
How much the state's takeover of reappraisal will cost remains to be seen, said Jason Mumpower, chief of staff for the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.
"It's been many years" since the state has had to step in and take over a county's reappraisal, Mumpower said. The Tennessee Board of Equalization voted 5-0 last week to have the state's Division of Property Assessments step in and do the Roane County property assessor's task.
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