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By Gordon Weeks
gordon@masoncoun 1y com
Mason County Assessor Patti
McLean, who states no party prefer
ence, faces Republican challenger
George Blush for another term in the
office.
WWW state
What qualifications
would you bring to
the job of Mason
County Assessor?
I have many years ofbusiness
management and nonprofit leadership
and as a result I bring a completely
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COHIIIDUIE to I’fi‘l’S’
position?
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and rebuild around it.
There was no way for low—income
a:
in business this
year.
The Housing Au-
thority was being
taken advantage of
by an out-of-state
management com-
pany. Since I be-
came chairman of
the board, we got
rid of the manage-
ment company and
returned the power to our community!
I love being able to help solve prob-
lems and I believe this is definitely a
Blush
What qualifications
would you bring to
the job of Mason
County Assessor?
As the current Mason County As—
sessor, I already have four years’
perience as assessor. l was hired in
April of 1991 with very little knowl~
and duties of the
job of assessor is to
accurately follow
A. Washington State
law regarding an as—
. sessor’s office along
with giving taxpay—
ers the knowledge
to fully understand
all the requirements
of this office. There
are many layers of
this position that result in a tax bill
that fund public services.
McLean
position where I can do that! edge of what an assessor’s oftice does. How
do you
This gives me over 31 years in an
do you see as assessor’s offices, with the first 26.5 differ from your
years in Mason County within the ad-
the most nt ministrative side and then 14 months Opponent?
with the Grays Harbor Assessor’s of-
fice as an accredited appraiser before
responsibilities and a , p .
- _ _ _ _ _ helng elected in 2019. After starting
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to know about you
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position?
I feel growing up in this county
gives me a personal connection to this
and Lfle quality 01 LBS assessors SL'dII S
customer service. Not only am I dedi—
KNOW
seniors in our community to get help
with pet food for their pets if they
came up short. I built a team that
more. That team feeds hundreds of
local pets every month.
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I think it is important for voters to
know that I am running for this po-
sition because I want to see positive
change. We have a broken tax svstem
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bors out of their homes and we need
cated and compassionate about my
position, I am also a person of Integ-
rity, Accountability, and fairness and
talus thiq inh vnrv enrinnclv Tovnnv-
EI'S nave come to Know that they can
stop by the office or call me whenever
to fix it. I look forward to risin; to the thgy need to,
I differ from my opponent because
I have 31 years in an assessor’s of—
they 'may not know?
That the assessor cannot raise
Drooertv values to increase taxes.
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on a steady increase over the past few
years. Per RCW84.40.030, all prop-
erty must be valued at one hundred
percent of its true and fair market
value whioh than results in unnroo—
euenteu market values. 1 axpayers
need to understand that the assessor
does NOT set the market", we follow