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2 weeks agoKumar vs. Fligor: Santa Clara County assessor candidates make final pitches for Dec. 30 runoff
County assessors in California have one job: assess the value of taxable property. They don't set tax rates. They don't collect property taxes. Their job is to apply state law to their appraisals of real and business properties. And in Santa Clara County, the job leading the 250 people in the Assessor's Office is especially complex. It's not just the most-populous county in northern California, it's also home to the world's largest, most sophisticated companies, like Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet and Adobe,
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