1 BEFORE THE CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION 2 450 N STREET 3 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 4 5 6 7 8 REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT 9 AUGUST 21, 2012 10 11 12 13 14 15 PROPERTY TAX COMMITTEE 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 REPORTED BY: Kathleen Skidgel 28 CSR NO. 9039 1 1 P R E S E N T 2 3 For the Committee: George Runner Chair 4 5 Jerome E. Horton Member 6 7 Michelle Steel Member 8 Betty T. Yee 9 Member 10 Marcy Jo Mandel 11 Appearing for John Chiang, State Controller 12 (per Government Code Section 7.9) 13 14 Joann Richmond Chief, 15 Board Proceedings Division 16 17 ---oOo--- 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 1 450 N STREET 2 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 3 AUGUST 21, 2012 4 ---oOo--- 5 MR. HORTON: Ms. Richmond, our next item, 6 please. 7 MS. RICHMOND: Our next item is the Property 8 Tax Committee. Mr. Runner is the Chair of that 9 committee. 10 Mr. Runner. 11 MR. RUNNER: Thank you. Thank you. 12 And I'll call the Property Tax Committee, uh, 13 meeting to order. 14 The item we have before us today is the 15 discussion of the adoption of recommendations to 16 initiate the rulemaking process for Property Tax Rules 17 101, 171, 252, and 1045. 18 Dean Kinnee will provide us with an update and 19 a report. 20 Mr. Kinnee. 21 MR. KINNEE: Morning, Board Members. Dean 22 Kinnee with the Property and Special Taxes Department. 23 As Senator Runneder -- Runner indicated, today 24 we're asking the Committee to authorize for publication 25 to commence the rulemaking process for Property Tax 26 Rules 101, 171, 252, and 1045, with the changes to the 27 rule as is shown in the issue paper 12-008 before you. 28 As you're aware, the Board's responsible for 3 1 prescribing and enforcing the use of forms for property 2 tax assessment purposes. In that capacity, the Board 3 provides to assessors approximately 120 forms for use 4 for them in the -- in the assessment process. 5 The rules before you set forth the various, uh, 6 procedures and requirements that assessors must file -- 7 uh, must follow in the use of those forms. Staff 8 proposed changes to the rules to reflect various 9 statutory changes over the years and bring -- make the 10 rules current with -- with the statutes. 11 We transmitted the draft rules to interested 12 parties for comments. We received a few back from 13 counties that were grammatical in nature; we've 14 accommodated those. At this time we're not aware of any 15 outstanding issues, and we ask that the Committee 16 recommend to the Board, uh, authorization to publish the 17 rules and start the official rulemaking process. 18 MR. RUNNER: Okay, thank you. 19 I don't, uh, see any cards for speakers. Just 20 making sure, anybody speaking on this item? 21 Okay. Any comments, Members? 22 Do I hear a motion coming? 23 MS. MANDEL: Um, move the staff 24 recommendation. 25 MR. HORTON: Second. 26 MR. RUNNER: Okay, it's been moved and 27 seconded, um, to move forward with the authorized 28 publication of the rules with, uh, Member Mandel making 4 1 the motion and Member Horton second it. 2 All in favor? 3 MS. YEE: Aye. 4 MS. STEEL: Aye. 5 MR. RUNNER: Okay. Thank you. 6 MR. KINNEE: Thank you. 7 MR. RUNNER: This concludes the Property Tax 8 Committee. 9 ---oOo--- 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 5 1 REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE 2 3 State of California ) 4 ) ss 5 County of Sacramento ) 6 7 I, KATHLEEN SKIDGEL, Hearing Reporter for the 8 California State Board of Equalization certify that on 9 August 21, 2012 I recorded verbatim, in shorthand, to 10 the best of my ability, the proceedings in the 11 above-entitled hearing; that I transcribed the shorthand 12 writing into typewriting; and that the preceding pages 1 13 through 5 constitute a complete and accurate 14 transcription of the shorthand writing. 15 16 Dated: September 5, 2012 17 18 19 ____________________________ 20 KATHLEEN SKIDGEL, CSR #9039 21 Hearing Reporter 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 6