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RESOLUTI <br />ON :D VALOREM TAXESFOR-COUNTYfir►_ '► <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT UNDER THE STATUTE$ WHERE A <br />PUBLIC BODY PURCHASES PROPERTY, THEY ARE TAX EXEMPT FROM THE TIME <br />OF THE PURCHASE. HE, THEREFORE, HAD PREPARED A RESOLUTION EXEMPTING <br />THE COUNTY FROM PAYING TAXES ON THE PROPERTY PURCHASED FROM THE <br />ANSINS LAST .JULY AS A SITE FOR THE SOUTH COUNTY WATER PLANT, THIS <br />RESOLUTION MUST BE GIVEN TO THE PROPERTY APPRAISER AND THE TAX ASSESSOR. <br />MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE, TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 81-4 AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. <br />COMMISSIONER FLETCHER DID NOT SEE WHY THE COUNTY SHOULD <br />GET SPECIAL TREATMENT, AND COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK NOTED THAT WE ACTUALLY <br />WOULD BE COLLECTING FROM OURSELVES, <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS EXPLAINED THAT THIS STATUTE APPLIES NOT <br />ONLY TO THE COUNTY, BUT ANY PUBLIC BODY, SUCH AS THE SCHOOL BOARD, <br />THE HOSPITAL DISTRICT, DRAINAGE DISTRICTS, ETC. <br />THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON <br />AND CARRIED FOUR TO ONE WITH COMMISSIONER FLETCHER VOTING IN OPPOSITION. <br />THE CHAIRMAN INQUIRED AS TO COMMISSIONER FLETCHER'S REASON <br />FOR VOTING IN OPPOSITION, AND MR. FLETCHER STATED THAT HE DID NOT <br />THINK THE COUNTY'S LAND IS ANY DIFFERENT THAN THE TAXPAYER'S LAND. <br />0 <br />JAN 141991 <br />79 <br />