Murray’s assessment-board seat: appointment, reappointment and a successor

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  "title": "Murray’s assessment-board seat: appointment, reappointment and a successor",
  "summary": "County records establish his service and a later vacancy. A scheduled term through 2026 is not evidence that he remained in office.",
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    "Michael Murray was among five people appointed to Napa County’s Assessment Appeals Board on **July 10, 2018**. The county’s August 28 introduction agenda names the members and explains that the new board took over property-assessment appeal duties previously performed by the Board of Supervisors as the Board of Equalization.\n\n",
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    "The assessment board reviews the valuation of taxable property. The 2018 agenda says a three-member panel would be designated for each meeting from the five-member board. Appointment to the board therefore does not, by itself, establish participation in every appeal.\n\n",
    "## Reappointment and the later vacancy\n\n",
    "On the September 26, 2023 agenda, file **23-1658** requested Murray’s reappointment to the Certified Public Accountant/Public Accountant seat, with a scheduled term ending **September 7, 2026**. The item also sought Conrad Hewitt’s reappointment to a separate CPA seat.\n\n",
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    "County records subsequently describe a vacancy due to resignation in the CPA/Public Accountant seat. On **May 7, 2024**, the supervisors appointed **William Molinari** to that seat for a term ending September 7, 2026. The minutes record approval as part of the consent calendar.\n\n",
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    "The later appointment matters when describing Murray’s tenure: the 2026 date was the planned end of the term, not proof that he continued serving until then. These appointment and successor records do not supply the exact effective date of his resignation.\n\n",
    "## The overlap and its limits\n\n",
    "The documented assessment-board service overlapped Murray’s work as a recycling-company CFO and his treasurer role for Pedroza’s supervisor campaign. Those simultaneous positions are facts about his public and professional roles. They do not establish that he heard an appeal involving either recycling company. Any claim about a particular appeal requires that case’s parties, panel and decision record.\n\n",
    "The filings and their provenance are also included in the [Public investigation JSON](https://miscsubjects.com/exports/pedroza-canonical.json).\n\n"
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      "title": "Introduction of the Assessment Appeals Board",
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      "title": "Reappointment to the Napa County Assessment Appeals Board",
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      "title": "Appointment of William Molinari to the Assessment Appeals Board",
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