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FINANCE OFFICER BARTON FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT IF YOU BUILT <br />A NEW HOUSE AND MOVED IN IN 1979, YOUR LOT IS VALUED AT THE 1979 <br />VALUE AND THE HOUSE AT ITS 1980 VALUE, ADDITIONS TO A HOME ARE AT <br />1980 VALUES. MR. BARTON CONTINUED TO EXPLAIN HOW VALUES WILL BE <br />DETERMINED AND THE AFFECT OF THE ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, HE <br />NOTED THAT NOT UNTIL ALL PROPERTY IS COMPLETELY REASSESSED, WILL THE <br />FINAL NOTICES GO OUT FOR TAXES. <br />APPEAL OF THE ASSESSMENT. <br />THERE THEN WILL BE A PROCEDURE FOR <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE STATED THAT THE ASSESSED VALUES THAT <br />WERE ON THE NOTICES RECEIVED ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS RESIDENTS WERE <br />ASSESSED LAST YEAR, UNLESS IT WAS A NEW PIECE OF PROPERTY OR HAD <br />ADDITIONS OR RENOVATIONS. <br />PROPERTY APPRAISER LAW STATED THAT IS BASICALLY CORRECT, BUT THERE <br />ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS, THE COURT IN ISSUING INSTRUCTIONS TO PUBLISH <br />THE INTERIM ROLL USED THE WORDS "WHERE PRACTICAL" IN SOME SITUATIONS, <br />IMPLYING WHERE THE PROPERTY APPRAISER HAD ALREADY WORKED AN AREA <br />FOR 1980, IT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY TO GO BACK AND UNDO WHAT ALREADY <br />HAD BEEN DONE. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THERE IS A VERY SMALL <br />PERCENTAGE OF THE PROPERTIES THAT WERE SENT OUT WITH THE 1980 VALUES <br />THAT ALREADY HAD BEEN WORKED. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT ASKED FOR AN ESTIMATE OF WHEN THE FINAL <br />ROLL WILL BE READY, AND MR. LAW STATED THAT THEY ARE UNDER COURT <br />ORDER FOR .JANUARY 1, 1981, AND HE FELT THIS IS A REACHABLE GOAL. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT AGAIN EMPHASIZED THAT IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS <br />WITH THE BUDGET WE WILL HEAR THEM, BUT IF ANYONE HAS QUESTIONS AS TO <br />THEIR VALUATIONS, THEY SHOULD CONTACT THE PROPERTY APPRAISER. <br />COMMISSIONER Loy WISHED TO EMPHASIZE TO THE PUBLIC THAT THE <br />ACTUAL DOLLARS SET FORTH FOR THE VARIOUS BUDGETS WILL NOT CHANGE ONCE <br />THEY ARE ADOPTED, IT IS THE MILLAGES THAT MAY CHANGE. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT OPENED THE FLOOR TO THE PUBLIC AND ASKED <br />IF ANYONE WISHED TO BE HEARD. <br />HUGH THOMPSON, 645 BEACHLAND BLVD., HAD A SUGGESTION FOR <br />NEXT YEAR. HE FELT THERE SHOULD BE PROJECTIONS AND SLIDES OR A <br />11 Bou 44 P�,cE 71 <br />OCT 2 1980 <br />