Saturday, March 24, 2012

Timing the next reassessment...


The NewsVirginian reports that the BOS will be taking up the timing and method for the next re-assessment for the county in a meeting on Monday.....

The provider of Augusta County’s next real estate reassessment and the timing of it will be discussed when the Augusta County Board of Supervisors meet for an afternoon briefing on Monday.

The board’s reassessment committee will offer a recommendation about how supervisors should proceed, said Middle River Supervisor Larry Wills.

Wills, a member of the reassessment committee, said there have been four proposals from private firms to perform the reassessment. Supervisors will also receive an estimate on Monday of the cost to the county if the reassessment was performed in-house.
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“A tremendous amount of work has gone into this,’’ said Wills, who anticipates a lengthy discussion by the board at Monday’s meeting.


“This is a good team of people on work on things,’’ Pyles said.
“This is a group able to assimilate a group of facts and issues and make decisions.”

One of the considerations is the timing of the reassessment, Pyles said.

He said it is possible the work could be done in less than a year and be completed by January 2013. Another option is to finish the work a year later.

Karaffa said he is concerned about doing an assessment by January of next year.
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“I think January 2014 is the date we have to aim for,’’ he said.

4 comments:

  1. What happened to the idea of the BOS doing the assessment process by using county staff? Then they would get the numbers they want

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  2. What happend to Mr Karraffas campaign promise and platform of doing an immediate reassessment as soon as he was elected??? Now he wants to wait till 2014? Typical politician.

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  3. Politicians (even local politicians) say what needs to be said to get elected. Call it pandering, call it lying, call it whatever you want, but elections are seldom about the truth. We have a number of supervisors who ran on a platform they knew they couldn't deliver on.

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  4. I believe most us understand that politicians will say whatever they think they need to say to get elected and boy do they....

    But it also appears that there is a learning curve and surprises to the candidate that wins once he gets in there and experiences the "Reality of the office" and how things are really run....

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