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Personal Narrative: A Personal Experience With Richard Reisinger

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I met with Richard Reisinger in his window office located at the OPUS building in Natomas on Friday, October 22, 2015. Mr. Reisinger is a Business Taxes Administrator III (formerly titled Principle Property Appraiser) for the State Assessed Properties Division (SAPD) of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE). I also met with Dennis Kauffman in the lobby of New City Hall and we walked to Claim Jumper on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. (We both had fish tacos, and they were delicious.) Mr. Kauffman is the Operations Manager for the Department of Finance for the City of Sacramento. Personal Background Education and Licensing Mr. Reisinger attended the University of Santa Clara where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting in 1979. (He did not specialize in anything.) Shortly after graduating, he sat for the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. He studied for the exam using the Becker CPA review course and passed all parts but the auditing section the …show more content…

Reisinger was hired as a Tax Auditor by the California State Board Equalization in 1998. He works for the State-Assessed Properties Division setting unitary values for energy and telecommunications companies. His private experience auditing hi-tech companies and his real estate accounting background have proved very beneficial to his career at the State. He was promoted very quickly from Tax Auditor to Assistant Property Auditor-Appraiser to Associate Property Auditor-Appraiser to Senior Specialist Property Appraiser to Supervising Property Appraiser to Principal Property Appraiser. He has been a Principal Property Appraiser (recently reclassified as Business Taxes Administrator III) since 2012. He has found working at the State less intense than working in the private sector. He used to work 10 to 12 hours days; because of budget constraints, he seldom is required to work overtime for the State, which gives him time to manage real estate on the side and do income taxes during tax

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