While “we’re kind of headed in the right direction,” next year will probably still be negative for Polk County, Property Appraiser Marsha Faux told Bartow Kiwanis Club members Friday.

As of July 1, the tax roll is down 4.79 percent from last year, Faux reported, but something positive in that is that there was an 11 percent drop in 2009, then 14 percent the next year, and now 4 percent, “so we’re kind of headed in right direction.”