Meade County Director of Equalization: the office that manages the veteran’s property tax relief programmes

The office. The county's Equalization/Planning page: "The Meade County Director of Equalization is appointed by the Meade County Board of Commissioners to manage approximately 21,000 parcels totaling over $4.4 Billion in assessment." The office "annually assesses all non-ag property at full and true value, and ag property according to agriculture income value", and among its additional responsibilities: "Managing tax exemptions, Veteran's property tax relief programs, assessment freezes, the owner-occupied program, TIF districts, discretionary formulas, renewable tax credits, and maintaining the Meade County GIS program." The office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday at 1300 Sherman Street, Suite 222, Sturgis, SD 57785, 605-347-3818; the page's staff listing names Tonya Vig, Director of Planning, at the same suite. The relief programmes themselves are the State's - see the South Dakota entries on the disabled veteran and paraplegic veteran property tax exemptions and assessment freezes. The same November 1 county-assessor filing applies; the Director of Equalization is the county's assessor for Meade County, and the Department of Revenue's page calls it the county assessor's office. The appeal deadlines, as the page prints them: "Local Board of Equalization: Written appeal must be filed with the clerk of the local board on or before the Thursday preceding the third Monday in March. County Board of Equalization: Written appeal must be filed with the County Auditor on or before the 1st Tuesday in April. Appeals are for the current assessment year, taxes payable the following year." The Director of Equalization and staff "must be certified by the South Dakota Department of Revenue to assess real property for tax purposes with re-certification every 5 years."