Summer 2024 FCIAAO Newsletter

2024-2025 FCIAAO EXECUTIVE BOARD

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

The heat is on! Could it be any hotter? I hope that all of you have recovered from a long July 4th holiday weekend. Additionally this is a great time of year to come up for air after delivering a “clean” tax roll to DOR. I would like to take a minute to thank the Property Appraisers, Executive Board, Steering Committees, Vendors, Sponsors and all of the members of this great chapter for making it possible for us to have an extremely successful annual conference in Orlando. We had record attendance, relevant presentations and a great

PRESIDENT Kevin Hayes, MAI, CAE, RES, CFE Deputy of Appraisals Pinellas County VICE PRESIDENT Wynta Loughrey, RES, CFE Commercial Valuation Manager Sarasota County 2ND VICE PRESIDENT A. Renee Large, AAS, EA, CFE Chief Administrative Officer Clay County TREASURER S age Sullivan, MBA, PPS, RES, CFE TPP Division Chief Gina Fletcher, AAS, CPM, CFE Assistant Property Appraiser Leon County MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Kathy Rhodes, CFE Manager, Western Community Service Center Palm Beach County DIRECTOR Dee Dee Harnish, RES, AAS, CFE Director, Valuation Monroe County DIRECTOR Faith Dangerfield, AAS, CFE Director, Real Property Charlotte County DIRECTOR Lou Frey, AAS, CFE Director of Commercial Valuations Osceola County IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Christopher Mitts, PPS, CFE Appraisal & Automation Specialist St. Lucie County Duval County SECRETARY

KEVIN HAYES MAI, CAE, RES CFE

Congratulations are in order to all of the Property Appraisers who are unopposed in this year’s elections. I would also like to thank all of the Property Appraisers who are retiring at the end of this term. You have served your respective counties well and we wish you nothing but the best in your retirement. We appreciate all of your support over the years. Lastly for the Property Appraisers that have opponents, we wish you the best of luck on the campaign trail. the decision was extremely difficult. I wish that we could afford to give scholarships to all of the applicants because they were all deserving of the opportunity. I know that Philip will represent the Chapter well and I hope that he has a great experience. Enjoy your summer and I hope that you have a fun vacation planned. My parting words of wisdom are: alcohol doesn’t solve any problems but then again neither does milk! The IAAO International Conference is fast approaching, August 25-28 in Denver. The early bird registration deadline is this Monday, July 15th. Fun fact: there are over 250 medical and adult-use marijuana dispensaries in the City of Denver. It gives new meaning to “Rocky Mountain high”! I hope to see many of you at the conference. The TPP Steering Committee is busy planning their conference which will be December 9-13, 2024 at The Embassy Suites in Kissimmee. We will be offering IAAO Course 551 prior to the start of the conference. They have some amazing presentations planned. More details to follow. We had record attendance last year and are hoping to break that record this year! I would like to congratulate Philip Cruz, Commercial Valuation Analyst with the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser’s Office in Tampa. Philip is this year’s recipient of the FCIAAO scholarship to attend the IAAO International Conference in Denver. We had a record number of applications this year and time! Next year’s annual conference will be at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, April 30th to May 2nd, 2025. Put it on your calendars now because you won’t want to miss it!

Thank you, Kevin Hayes, MAI, CAE, RES, CFE FCIAAO 2024-2025 Chapter President

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SUMMER 2024