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ALERT: #132<br>
</b>DATE: April 30, 2007<br>
TO: Incline Village & Crystal Bay Property Owners<br>
FROM: Village League Tax Revolt Committee<br><br>
<b>To Our Friends in Incline Village and Crystal Bay,<br><br>
</b>All 9000 residential properties in the Incline Village and Crystal
<x-tab> </x-tab>Bay areas, have by now
received the latest “Notice of Hearing” from the Office of the Washoe
County Clerk.<br><br>
This County Notice is to alert you to a hearing to be held on May 8, 2007
at 9:00 A.M., once again before the Washoe County Board of Equalization
(CBOE). This time it will be in Room A-20 at the Reno-Sparks
Convention Center – 4590 South Virginia Street – Reno, Nevada
89502.<br><br>
We are not as yet certain that this hearing will take place. We will keep
you informed by the next Alert, as to whether or not you should plan to
attend. Attorney Suellen Fulstone, representing the Village League and
some individuals, has just this morning filed a Writ of Mandamus and a
request for an Emergency Stay <x-tab> </x-tab>to the Nevada
Supreme Court. If the Court agrees, the hearings will be stopped
until the Court rules on the Writ of Mandamus.<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN?<br><br>
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What do those legal actions really mean? The Writ of Mandamus is a
request for the Supreme Court to DEMAND that the County and the State
follow the decision issued by the Supreme Court last December 2006.
The Emergency Stay is to preclude this hearing by the CBOE, to reconsider
the roll back for all of the IV/CB residents, from being held at
all.<br><br>
The Village League filed a Motion in the Carson City District Court
protesting the State Board of Equalization’s (SBOE) hearing of the appeal
filed by the Washoe County Assessor of the CBOE ruling last March
2006.<br><br>
The CBOE had ordered a roll-back of the entire IV/CB area to the property
tax values assessed in 2002 and refunds plus interest on all overpaid
taxes for the 2006 year.<br><br>
Unfortunately, Judge Russell did not stop the SBOE hearings, but he did
say the following directly to the attorneys for the State: <br><br>
“…the Court is troubled by the fact that the State Board of Equalization
is putting the taxpayers through these hearings. It’s just beyond
me where you have established a particular determination that’s been made
by the Supreme Court, that basically the assessed valuation
procedures used by the county were incorrect … The dictates of the Bakst
case are very specific in regards to what it made a determination
on. And, if, to the extent that the 2006-2007 tax assessments …
have any relationship to that case, then why is the State Board of
Equalization putting these people through these particular hoops and
having these hearings in light of that?”<br><br>
Our feelings exactly! However, the SBOE held their hearings anyway
and on March 27 voted to “Remand” the decision made last year by the 2006
CBOE back to the current 2007 CBOE. The purported reason is to
obtain more “facts” upon which the roll-back decision for all of IV/CB
was made over a year ago.<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>WHAT IS THE REAL
REASON?<br><br>
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We feel that the true reason for the “Remand” is that when the current
CBOE, (of which a majority of the members are now controlled by the
Washoe County Commissioners), votes on May 8, 2007 to send back the
“facts” requested, the SBOE will then determine that not enough “facts”
were known by the 2006 CBOE and will overturn our hard won victory for
everyone in the IV/CB area.<br><br>
If, in fact, that is the result, we will be forced to go, once again, to
the District Court for Judicial Review and then, most probably, to the
Supreme Court to defend yet another appeal by Washoe County. <br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>WHY DOES THIS
CONTINUE?<br><br>
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That is a question that all of us have been asking ourselves.<br><br>
The Supreme Court ruled in our favor, the Legislators, the Nevada Tax
Commission, the State Department of Taxation, the State Board of
Equalization and three previous County Boards of Equalization have all
stated that they want CLOSURE to this property tax fiasco.<br><br>
Who is it that wants to continue these legal battles in an attempt to
exhaust our energies and our coffers? We have come to the decision
that the following parties are the culprits; all of the Washoe County
Commissioners, (particularly Commissioner Larson), District Attorney
Gammick, Washoe County Manager Katy Singlaub and Washoe County Finance
Director John Sherman. We will be watching to see who is appointed
and elected to these positions in the future.<br><br>
They are completely ignoring the illegality of what has been done in
their frantic attempts to keep the money that should have been refunded
to you and are planning to continue to collect even more property taxes
from the IV/CB “cash cow”. In other words, the “Washoe County tail
is wagging the State dog”. <br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>GETTING OUR MONEY IS
THEIR GOAL!<br><br>
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They are keeping our money and they still want more! There seems to
be no end to the amount of funds that bureaucracies desperately “need” in
order to pay for all of the programs that they determine to be necessary.
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<div align="center"><font size=6 color="#FF0000"><b>PLEASE!!<br>
MARK YOUR CALENDARS<br>
</font><font color="#FF0000">FOR THE<br>
</font><font size=6 color="#FF0000">MAY 8 HEARING!!! <br><br>
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As was stated previously, the hearing may not go forward. However,
if it does, this will be the last possibility for you to make your
thoughts known, in person, to Washoe County; and to fight to keep the tax
relief and refunds that we already have won for every single one of the
9000 home owners in the Incline Village and Crystal Bay areas.<br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#FF0000"><b>WATCH FOR AN
EMERGENCY ALERT!<br><br>
WE WILL NEED YOU THERE!<br><br>
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Sincerely,<br><br>
<b><i><u>Maryanne Ingemanson<br>
</u></i>Maryanne Ingemanson, President<br><br>
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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