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#41</SPAN></U></B></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">DATE:<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN><st1:date Month="2" Day="24" Year="2004"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Tuesday, February 24, 2004</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><BR></SPAN><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">TO:<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Incline</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Village & Crystal</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Bay</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place></FONT></FONT><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"> Property
Owners<BR>FROM:<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Nevada</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> Property Tax Revolt Committee</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#000000><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Dear</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName>Fellow</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Incline</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType>Village & Crystal</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType>Bay</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Property
Owners,</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>The Washoe County Board of
Equalization hearings for <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Incline</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType>Village & Crystal</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType>Bay</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> has been completed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you did not get the property
taxable valuation relief you wanted or expected, you now have an opportunity
to appeal to the State of
<st1:State><st1:place>Nevada</st1:place></st1:State>’s Board of Equalization
(BofE).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the next step
required by the authorities to exhaust our “Administrative
Procedures”.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Unfortunately few appellants
received any tax relief at the
<st1:place><st1:PlaceType>County</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceName>Board</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> of Equalization.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what we expected would
happen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Filing an appeal to the
State Board of Equalization will keep your options open. (It is like a free
insurance policy!) There are no costs and the form is simple and easy
to fill out. The procedure is exactly like filing an appeal at the
county level. You can appear to present your case, send in a letter
itemizing your concerns; or, if you are going to be out of the state or
cannot appear for any other reason, just faxing in your appeal form
will suffice for you to qualify as having completed the administrative
procedures.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000>If you did
<U>not</U> file an appeal to the county board, your appeal to the state
board will not be accepted. If you <U>did</U> file an appeal to the
county you should receive a state appeal form with the letter that the
county will or did send to you called a “Notice of Decision”. The form
sent to you by the county is an old form with <U>old phone numbers</U>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have placed the </FONT><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: red">newer and correct</SPAN></U><FONT color=#000000> state
appeal form on our web site that you can access, with correct phone and fax
numbers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Click on the following
link to download and print out the correct State Board of Equalization
“Petition for Review” form:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><A
href="http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/PDFfiles/PetForReview-State-BofE.pdf"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/PDFfiles/PetForReview-State-BofE.pdf</FONT></A><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>We suggest that every one of the
1,361 IV/CB property owners who filed a county appeal follow through
with filing a state appeal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
need to let the county and state government know that we are not going
to go away. The lawsuits are now in the hands of the courts. We are
still waiting to see which judge will be hearing our class-action
case. We should know sometime within the next week or two.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Let’s get rid of the
“tear-downs”, the subjective “view” criteria, the illegal “time
adjustments”, the lakefront footage measurements for value, and the other
unequal and unfair tax methods that the assessors have been creating.
Fill out your state appeal form now. It will only take a couple of
minutes plus it really will help in our court cases.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Thanks to everyone for sticking
together.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Sincerely,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Freestyle Script'"><FONT
color=#000000>Maryanne<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Maryanne Ingemanson, President
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=3>Village League to Save Incline Assets, Inc.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:Street><st1:address><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>1165 Vivian
Lane</FONT></st1:address></st1:Street></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:place><FONT
color=#000000><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:City>Incline
Village</st1:City>, <st1:State>Nevada</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode>89451</st1:PostalCode></FONT></FONT></FONT></st1:place></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:place><FONT
color=#000000><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:PostalCode><A
href="mailto:mingemanson@charter.net">mingemanson@charter.net</A></st1:PostalCode></FONT></FONT></FONT></st1:place></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A
href="http://www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
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