It profits from the lease of publicly owned Boone Hospital Center to a private firm. The lease expires in 2003. Boone County became a First Class county on Jan. 1, 1991. The county auditor became the chief budget officer and is responsible for reviewing budget requests, holding public hearings on them and submitting an annual budget for the county commission s approval. First Class status abolished the elected office of county surveyor but gave Boone County the authority to have a county counselor, a medical examiner, a county purchasing agent and a county highway administrator.
State law allows county officeholders to meet periodically to review and set their own salaries.
First floor of the Boone County Government Center, Eighth and Ash streets. The assessor is responsible for discovering, listing and estimating the market value of all taxable real and personal property in the county. The assessment roll is prepared and certified annually. Assessed values are calculated as a fraction of market value, according to Missouri statutes. Upon appeal by a property owner, the assessor will appear and defend not only his assessed valuation of the subject property, but also the method he used to establish that value.