Board of Equalization Meeting   7/29/2024

We'll start with a roll call for the board members present in person.

Len May, Jack Duke, Julie.

Beard, as being present by Zoom?

And thank you all for allowing me the opportunity to do this.

Peter Lynch, county assessor.

James Shelley, senior appraiser, John Walker.

Billy Tammock, Gavin Cessna.

And then will the applicant please identify himself?

Dominic Cotslack of 1785 Frays Mill Road.

The whole truth will be nothing but the truth.

Yes.

Is it time to start?

quite a true case before the civil court but in fact the reason that there's a number of you here is because they represent a kind of a jury of sorts and the jurors of sorts do have constitutional right to nullify the very law itself in addition to simply examining the evidence.

So

I know it's long, but given I only have 10 minutes, I'm going to read this into the record because it's set in a way I need to say it.

I would respectfully submit that may not be the most effective use of your time.

But that's, I don't know if I'm at the 10 minutes, but that's the quarter.

Was that your question?

Maybe that was the land value.

So I don't know if there's anything else.

And that was on April the 8th, we did the inspection of 2020.

Thank you.

What's the assessment in 2017, building and then land?

Yes.

What's the condition of the land?

And everything else is just vacant.

Well, the applicant's rebuttal period now?

It's too short.

Those would be two easy approaches to what this property is worth.

I could hear him probably, if he had anything to say about that.

Well, we've talked about it, so we don't have to do anything about it.

That exact number five years in a row.

They're irregular crops, so you have a contract for a continuous amount of money every year.

Well, I don't think it's immaterial because they have to assess whether you're meeting the half a county average per acre probably.

So in every category where we would assert that, I can assure you, who's selling wild grape leaves besides me in this county?

Did you own the four cows?

So it's the intellectual property that's worth a lot.

Are you disputing the value of the assessment on the buildings?

When it's 12,000.

Or only the land?

Is that property you're talking about, is that listed on?

I'm sorry, right?

I don't know what property we're actually talking about.

If they're not on there, that's a glaring omission.

I believe the sales are from 2023.

No one would pay that for it.

9,000 square foot house.

I agree with your floodplain, Nick.

But you meant $300.

And look at the floodplain.

It has two floors.

I guarantee you that's a fully rented database.

A loose understanding of properties in the market.

Is there any data on that?

Correct, and the values have been going up since 2017, not as much as they have the last three years, but it was two to three to four percent.

Let's not forget the interest rates that we are present, and when it needs to be

I know this probably just from my real estate experience.

and I just don't see why this is beyond me, but that's not here nor there, but I just couldn't support anything.

then we took a loss on that moved out and bought property in Greene County and continued to visit there raised another 60 million dollars on that project last thing we were concerned about is the future of this property and the county continued to come out and trespass on the property to litigate over one inch of standing water for things like that all those cases were thrown out

Why don't you say they trespassed on the property?

And I talked to and recorded Amelia McCauley saying that, she says, we look at the constitution and they suggest that she said that on tape.

Beard, do you have anything further before we proceed to deliberations?

Thank you.

It was conveyed by the county attorney during that training and the handbook that was provided.

So I don't see anything I want to change specific to land value which is what the other thing

Thank you, Glenn.

Aye.

All right.

Beard, will you please state whether you voted aye or nay on that one?

Aye, thank you.

I sent you an email, you know all the names, and the only living left to resolve that is the 8th, before the statutory deadline of September 1st.

No.

And I believe they were the last two days of August, which you do not have a hearing set for.

They came back and said that they could do it then?

Correct.

Not on the 8th?

And remind me,

And August 8th is the last one of those dates.

because that's the only option left to you.

Did we vote on anything on that?

And the only flexibility was for board members and they're limited to the amount of times it could happen and it had to be, it's based on state law that allows that to happen.

So the $95,000 increase

But looking at that, looking at- It's not just a restaurant.

I mean, they have, I don't think that your initial determination is wrong.

I shouldn't get into it too deeply, but then we'll have an opportunity to

They knew about the initial hearing date, how much in advance.

Yeah, we put the advertisement out immediately after your organizational meeting and we actually set up the hearings before we advertised in some cases.

That's what I think we should do.

But if not, we really don't have another option, it would appear to me.

So do we need a motion to set the date?

OK. We have a time.

Of course.

What about that?

Do we have this restricted?

Like a- August 8th is a Thursday and we have room scheduled for between 8 and 2.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Perfect.

Yes.

That's the only thing that we have that's coming up.

Okay, unless you guys... No?

Unanimously approved and we'll adjourn at 9 59 AM.

Thank you for doing the zoom everybody.

Yeah.