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HAD BEEN THAT WE WERE NOT GOING TO INCREASE THE DOLLARS COLLECTED <br />FOR ANY PURPOSE, BUT WOULD ROLL BACK MILLAGES. THE COUNTY COMMISSION <br />FEELS THAT THIS IS AN UNFAIR SITUATION AND ARE TRYING TO FIND SOME <br />WAY TO COMBAT IT AND NOT HAVE AN INCREASE OF TAXES AS A DIRECT RESULT <br />OF THE INCREASE IN VALUATION. <br />PROPERTY APPRAISER`7NOLTE EXPLAINED THAT THE PROBLEM IS THAT <br />THE ESTIMATE ON THE INTERIM TAX ROLL WHICH THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE <br />GAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WAS GREATLY IN EXCESS OF THE ACTUAL <br />TAX ROLL FIGURE. THIS RESULTED IN A 1.5 MILLION DEFICIT IN THE <br />STATE BUDGET. IN JULY OF LAST YEAR, THE NUMBER WAS SET UPON WHICH <br />THE COMPUTATION OF THE REQUIRED LOCAL EFFORT WAS BASED. SINCE THE <br />INTERIM TAX ROLL DID NOT COME IN UNTIL SEPTEMBER, THE ,JULY ESTIMATE <br />WAS OUT OF LINE. MR. NOLTE STATED THAT HIS UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE <br />SCHOOL SYSTEM BUDGET HAS NOT CHANGED FROM THE INTERIM TO THE FINAL <br />ROLL. THE STATE HAS ADVANCED THE SHORTFALL TO BE PAID BACK OUT OF <br />THE ADDITIONAL REVENUES GENERATED FROM THE FINAL TAX ROLL; THEY MET <br />THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, IF NOT THE LETTER. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE ASKED IF ALL COUNTIES WHO WENT THE ROUTE <br />OF AN INTERIM TAX ROLL HAD THE SAME PROBLEM, AND MR. NOLTE REPORTED <br />THAT MANATEE COUNTY WENT THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS WITH AN INTERIM <br />ROLL BUT THEN WENT BACK AND PETITIONED THAT THE INTERIM ROLL BE MADE <br />THE FINAL ROLL, WHICH SAVED THE ADDITIONAL FINAL EFFORT DOLLARS. <br />MR. NOLTE THEN WENT ON TO REPORT THAT INDIAN RIVER COUNTY HAS SOME <br />SERIOUS PROBLEMS OF EQUITY IN THE TAX ROLL, I.E., THE HURRICANE <br />DAMAGED CONDOMINIUM UNITS WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN REDUCED FROM FULL <br />VALUE TO LAND VALUE WERE NOT REDUCED IN VALUE. IN ADDITION, ANYONE <br />WHO TOOK OUT A BUILDING PERMIT WAS PUT ON THE INTERIM ROLL ON THEIR <br />1981 VALUATION, WHICH COULD RESULT IN SERIOUS INEQUITIES BETWEEN <br />NEIGHBORING RESIDENCES BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT.:.SOMEONE MERELY TOOK <br />OUT A BUILDING PERMIT. MR. NOLTE FELT THESE INEQUITIES WOULD NEGATE <br />ANY EFFORT TO MAKE THE INTERIM ROLL THE FINAL ROLL AS WAS DONE IN <br />MANATEE COUNTY. <br />29 <br />134 <br />