Facing mounting pressure, the chief appraiser at the Tarrant Appraisal District has announced his resignation.
Jeff Law wrote to the board of directors that his last day will be Wednesday, September 6th.
"In recent months I have been approached from both private and public sector organizations regarding different employment possibilities," Law wrote in his resignation letter. "While I appreciate the vote of confidence I received from the board at its last board meeting, I have decided to pursue one of those opportunities."
While the board gave Law a vote of confidence, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court went the opposite direction. On Tuesday, it unanimously voted no confidence in Law, following a series of scandals that has plagued the entity.
"It's about time," said Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare in an interview with KRLD News. "People and business owners in Tarrant County can finally start to see the process to restore public trust in TAD beginning."
The latest scandal involved TAD's now-former head of IT, Cal Wood, being captured on audio urging staffers to lie about its website issues.
"I'm okay with creating a false narrative that distances the truth from the media," Wood was captured on audio saying during the staff meeting.
That quip ended up costing Wood his job.
Calls for Law's firing have grown since then; before the Commissioners Court took a vote of no confidence, the mayors of Colleyville, Keller, and Southlake urged TAD's board of directors in an open letter to make a change at the top.
Earlier this year, Law managed to hold on to his job amid calls for his firing over concerns about a lack of communication and transparency.
In April, the board of directors issued Law a four-page letter of remedy, giving him 90 days to rectify 11 concerns that it identified.
Law was suspended for two weeks without pay last year for his handling of complaints against a real estate agent who helps people protest their property values.
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Judge O'Hare says Law's successor has a huge task ahead of him or her.
"It's up to the board to bring someone in who understands the magnitude of the position," says O'Hare, "and that the number one challenge for the appraisal district is to restore people's trust in the entity."
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