Taxes Too High? Blame the Former Assessor
Documents obtained by Patch illustrate errors and omissions by the former Mount Pleasant village assessor, that left $4.5 million off the tax rolls, resulting in higher tax rates for village property owners.
Property taxes could hold steady or even decrease in 2013, now that the village has added $4.5 million in unassessed property value to its tax rolls. The value comes from residents who made significant renovations or additions to their homes between 2008 and 2010, but never saw their assessment go up; that new value was never added to the tax base. These errors and omissions were discovered last year, and were traced back to what the village says was unacceptable work by former trustee and village assessor Ed Potter and his company, Southeastern Wisconsin Assessment Services LLC. Potter resigned from the Village Board in 2007 to go after the assessor contract. He got the job, but needed someone to help out. In January 2011 he hired …
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Karen Albeck
3:13 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
What you have written is not a function of elected officials. That is something which staff, in this case, administration should have affirmed prior to signing the contract. Karen Albeck more ›