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41787.5 /3 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Mark Bernhardson, City Administrator C F. TINR DATE- April 17, 1987 7 r.".n, «. 2 f�87 SUBJECT: 1987 Board of Reivew WEDNESDAY, 7: 30 P.M. MAY 13, 1987 Attachment: A. Assessor's 1987 Board of. Rev iew Background Informatics:, ISSU'; - A. Reminder of Board of Review date for Councilmembers B. Background 'information for Councilmembers in advance of the Board of Review INTRODUCTION - Up until 1990 the City of. Orono participated in the West Hennepin Assessment District. For a number of reasons this joint powers arrangement ceased to exist and Orono chose to go with Hennepin County on a contract for their assessing services. The first year Hennepin County had the assessment substanital increases in assessments were realized throughout the community and resulting in a large Board of Review hearing in 1983. As a result of this the City sought other ways to obtain its assessing service and starting in the second half of 1984 contracted with Rolf Erickson and his associated Dave Wilde for assessing services. Their initial years' work resulted in reductions in many places. At the Board of Rev iew in 1985 there were approximately three people in attendance. At the 1986 Board of Review about 10 people indicated that they desired to appeal. As noted in the attached information, because of the market sales, there are several, areas in the community in which adjustments had to be made for the 1987 assessed payab'.e 1988. It is anticipated that there will be substantially morL3 people presenting appeals this year. (It should be noted that often questions and resolution of prohlem3 have been handled in advance of the Boar? of '?eview, generally thq� ,.),-ogle who show up have not been in cont-,ct with the Asnesnnr's office prior to the Board of Review.) One significant issue from last year was the valuation of golf courses. This is a result of the County trying to get a coordinated Vstem for all golf courses and interpret the new law relating to recreational space". The Orono Council last year hacked the Assessor's value and directed that the golf courses, in mass, appeal to the County Hoard of Review and directed the Assessor io tr, t�-,sclvc the issue for 1981. The County Board of Review chose to re-!ueP the County's amounts at that level, to bw 7.51 over the 1985 values. Rolf Erickson has done substantial work in trying to address this situation, but there has not been successful resolution of the matter at this point.