Real Property Tax Increase

We got our assessment in the mail for 2003. They increased our assessed value by 155 percent! Yikes! In addition, they just announced that the rates will also be increased for 2003. This does not feel right. There was an interview on the news that said the Real Property rates for my neighborhood went up between 8 percent to 10 percent.

I need to go look and see if I can find any hard copy on this interview. I gave Dick what I found. He plans to work on the protest tomorrow. The articles in the paper give the increase for my neighborhhod to be around 8.2 percent. This is huge difference from 155 percent.

1/7/03 11:02 I just finished typing the protest that Dick completed. I am going to ask PG to fill out the form since she is the only one with legible handwriting aroud here. We shall just have to see what happens with the protest. We are suppoed to go to a hearing. I wonder if I should poll the neighbors to find out what their assesments were like.