MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Rutherford County Property Assessor Rob Mitchell is asking Tennessee’s governor and attorney general to investigate public payments made to the Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers, an organization he says has remained administratively dissolved for more than four decades.
Mitchell announced Monday that he had formally requested an investigation by Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. His request centers on payment records he obtained through the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury’s public portal, which reportedly show state disbursements to the association for training services.
According to information cited by Mitchell from the Tennessee Secretary of State, the Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers, commonly known as TNAAO, was “administratively dissolved on March 17, 1983” and remains listed under an “Inactive – Revoked (Revenue)” status…