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<div align="center"><font size=6 color="#FF0000"><b>ANOTHER VICTORY
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ALERT: #123<br>
DATE: February 22, 2007<br>
TO: Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Owners<br>
FROM: Village League Tax Revolt Committee<br><br>
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<b>Dear Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Owners,<br><br>
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Yesterday we won a HUGE Victory before the County Board of Equalization
for the approximately 1000 members of the Village League who had signed
and filed their Petitions for Review by January 15th. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Attorney
Suellen Fulstone did a spectacular presentation on behalf of the
Petitioners. The final vote was three to two in our favor. <b>IT
WAS A REAL SQUEAKER!!</b> The hearing began at 8:30 A.M. and the
final and decisive vote was not until 6:00 P.M. A long day for
all. I am just now starting to draw a deep breath. <br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>WHAT MADE THIS SO
HARD?<br><br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>Washoe County! They are doing everything
possible to stop us. They want your MONEY; there is no doubt about
that.<br><br>
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On Friday - February 16th, the County Board of Equalization Chairman,
Steven Sparks, opened the proceedings by reading aloud an email that he
had received from District Attorney Richard Gammick, the night
before. The letter contained a veiled reference to a perceived
“conflict of interest” by the office of the District Attorney; therefore,
Gammick stated, the office of the D.A. could no longer proceed to act as
counsel for the County Board of Equalization.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Then
Chairman Sparks read aloud his letter of resignation, and immediately
left the room. As was anticipated no doubt, this intimidation of
the Chairman of the County Board by District Attorney Gammick, left us
with a County Board of four members. If a vote ends in a tie, the
Appellant loses. (That would have been us!)<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The new
counsel for the Board, who had been hired by the District Attorney, took
his seat and a mind numbing reading of all of the parcel numbers, names
and hearing numbers of the 1000 Petitioners followed. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>A terrific
vote of thanks to all of you who heeded our call to attend the
hearing. None of us were aware of the stalling techniques that had
been carefully planned by Washoe County. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Just
before adjournment, we were stunned by a sudden proposal from Assessor
Josh Wilson, that the rest of the hearings be CANCELLED as 46 of
our members had already won their appeals the previous Monday. No
action was taken on his suggestion, so the next morning at 8:30 A.M. we
were once again positioned to present our appeals.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>After 45
minutes of waiting, we were informed that the “new” counsel was
unavailable! The counsel previously provided by the District
Attorney’s office reappeared and told the board that if they would waive
the “conflict” problem, he would stay. After much discussion, they
declined to continue with the hearing and another day was lost.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><b>Day
three.</b> An alternate member for the Board had miraculously been
appointed by County Commissioner Larkin. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>At last,
we were able to proceed and in what was obviously AN ENORMOUS SETBACK to
the County, <font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>we WON! <br><br>
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<div align="center">WHAT DID WE WIN?<br><br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab>In March
2006, the Village League had appealed and won, before the County Board of
Equalization, a roll-back of assessed values for all residential parcels
in IV/CB to the tax year of 2002. However, in December 2006 the
Assessor sent out Assessment Notices to all of us reflecting the higher
values as were determined for 2006 by the assessor, (before our March
victory), plus a 15% increase in land values.<br><br>
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<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>On Wednesday we won another
roll-back. This time, the 2007 assessment values were rolled back
to the 2002 assessed values. <br><br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>However, the battle is not
over.</b></font> No doubt the assessor will once again appeal our
current victory to a hearing before the State Board of
Equalization.<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>TO BE
CONTINUED……<br><br>
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Sincerely,<br><br>
<b><i>Maryanne Ingemanson</b>, President<br><br>
</i><b>Village League to Save Incline Assets Board Members:<br>
Maryanne Ingemanson,</b> President, <b>Ted Harris</b>, Tax Revolt
Committee Chairman,<br>
<b>Les Barta,</b> Law Research, <b>John Carney,</b> Analyst, <b>Wayne
Fischer,</b> Webmaster, <br>
<b>Todd Lowe,</b> Financial Analyst, <b>Dale Akers,</b> Historian, and
<b>Chuck Otto,</b> Public Relations<br><br>
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<div align="center"><b>Village League to Save Incline Assets, Inc</b>.
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- an approved non-profit organization<br>
FEIN 88-0399029<br>
1165 Vivian Lane - Incline Village, Nevada 89451<br>
telephone: 775-831-4011, fax: 775-831-0325<br>
Email: mingemanson@charter.net<br>
<a href="http://www.nevadapropertytaxrevolt.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.NevadaPropertyTaxRevolt.org<br><br>
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