AUBURN — Troy Myers believes he has the expertise and capabilities to be certain the assessor’s office environment has correct data to evaluate homes in DeKalb County.
Myers is looking for the Republican nomination for DeKalb County Assessor and is dealing with 4-time period incumbent Sheila Stonebraker in the most important election.
“There is a definite will need for much better, much more accurate facts in the assessor’s workplace,” Myers claimed in marketing campaign materials.
“This can decrease taxes, but we require the management to get that data. I believe that I have the expertise and techniques to accomplish that.”
Born and raised in DeKalb County, Myers graduated from DeKalb High Faculty and afterwards from Trine College. He has a bachelor’s degree in authorized studies and a insignificant in economics.
At this time he works as a substitute instructor in DeKalb County educational facilities and is the place of work manager for the bridal shop business enterprise of his mother, Necia Myers.
“I have more than 30 decades value of encounter in retail, retail management, finance, accounting,” Myers explained.
“With 30-furthermore many years of administration and financial expertise, I determined to move up and operate for the place of work of assessor as an alternative of sitting down back and complaining about the position quo.”
If elected Myers claimed, “I will work to help halt the point out government overreach by bringing our base price pricing back again to the county amount where by it belongs.”
“The difficulty is, in far too numerous of the counties, they are not carrying out boots-on-the ground assessments. I’m not guaranteed how this county’s accomplishing it, but I know that if I’m elected it will be back again to boots-on-the-ground,” Myers claimed.
“I will make guaranteed that each house in DeKalb County will be assessed in particular person to decrease the chance for problems,” he extra.
“If your assessment is incorrect for whichever explanation, that is going to influence your assets tax. My obligation to the office is to do my most effective to bring down as lots of of the residents’ house tax as feasible by creating guaranteed that issues are factually accomplished effectively.”
Myers reported that alongside with his administration and financial expertise, his people today capabilities, make him a great candidate for the office environment.
“I’ve often been fascinated in politics. I was out conversing to neighbors and close friends, talking about our assessments that had appear out and each and every man or woman experienced a story about ‘Well, this doesn’t look right’ and had queries about particular costs,” Myers stated.
“I consider that absolutely everyone in the county … I feel that they will need a voice and a location to voice, I guess, their considerations and not experience like they are being brushed off.”
Myers describes himself as a “people person” and someone who enjoys receiving out and conversing to men and women.
“I believe that that just one of the best characteristics that I have for this placement is that I do have that willingness to open up myself up, to have people today appear in and say, ‘Hey, I never recognize this,’ and to essentially sit down with them and go above, step by action, and to let them comprehend what’s heading on from my position of check out, to also have an understanding of what’s going on through their thoughts,” he explained.
Myers said he will be an formal who can take obligation for the steps of the business and will attempt to provide regard into and out of the place of work.