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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Reassessment Appeals

 The school board for years has been talking about appealing reassessments. They tried with JC Penny and the Montgomery Mall, and lost, big. Now, the school board is going to try 26 more businesses. I could question, why the item was not placed on the agenda prior to the past Action meeting. I could ask why there was no discussion from the board members prior to voting 7-0 in favor without any details being revealed to the board. I could assume, these details were discussed in the executive session prior to the action meeting. But my question will be, why make the taxpayer go through the superintendant's office via "right to know" to obtain the information? The Intelligencer had the information ready for print the next day. Why was this not revealed on camera for NPTV taxpayers to see for themselves. And why were the taxpayers paying Mr. Dooley to give the interview on this process? Acting President Josephine Charnock was available that evening to give the interview, just as any other sitting board president.

Less than a month after bragging about not raising taxes, they announce the intent to appeal corporate reassessments. While it is the correct thing to do, ultimately, it will result in the same thing as taxes being raised. The costs by the companies will be passed on to the consumer. Governor Corbett did the same thing. Promised not to raise taxes, then cut education throwing it in the laps of the school districts, still able to brag that he didn't raise taxes.

All I know is, my shoes are wet. Someone told me it was raining, but all I see is clear skies. It's not rain.

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