Subject: FW: PowerPoint Presentation
Attachments: La Crosse Mtg.1.19.11.ppt; Ad Hoc Assessment Practices Report
1-20-11.doc
To: WRPLA Membership 2010
Subject: FW: PowerPoint Presentation
Hi Everyone, last night our County’s Assessment Reform Study
Committee met and had the Dept of Revenue present the attached power point
presentation. For those that still think reform is on the back burner, it
is not and like have I said it has never has been. Part of my committees
job is now to look at contracts in our county that will benefit the taxpayers,
the local units of government, and the state. Education will be a high
priority to make sure our residents know about these changes and make sure all
new assessments are open and transparent, meaning anyone can ask a question on
their valuation and get a complete answer along with access to the records used
to produce their value. Please review the power point for your own sake,
so you know the requirements needed. Since the local unit of
government still insist on local control, the highest burden of responsibility
is now on them to show us they can make this happen. In the very near
future, all records and reporting will have to be electronic. This will
be an investment that has been pointed out over the last 3 years but the locals
have not taken it seriously. Since this is going to happen, the only way
to make it so is through constant education.
I applaud the DOR in its efforts to streamline the tax and
assessment process for the following reasons: in WI property taxes
generate almost $10 billion in revenue. All of the other state taxes,
such as sales tax, income tax, corporate tax, cigarette tax, and all the
rest generate about $11 billion. The state probably has about 1500
full-time people working on the support of the $11 billion. On the
property assessment side, the state is down to 106 FTE in Revenue and 432 assessors
of which more than half are part time. So for support of the largest
single tax generator in this state we have about 300 full time equivalents
working in the assessment process. Why doesn’t anyone want to talk
about improving this process when it affects
everyone? All I can do is ask you all for your help in
educating your supervisors, your county board and locals that this is for real
and not going away. At the county level, you may not see much change
unless you are not participating in PAD or submitting reports
electronically. The DOR does need our help to get the word out.
Please note toward the end of the power point, all the
associations that have been participating on the State Committee reviewing the
current and proposing new standards. This committee has depended a lot on
these organizations helping their members to stay on top of this topic.
So it behooves us all who belong to any of these associations to find out all
you can and make sure it’s on some upcoming agenda.
One town board chairman referenced this whole process to eating
an elephant. It’s tough skinned, hard to chew, will get old real fast and
will not go away. I laughed so hard. When I look back to the
early 197o's when assessors weren’t even certified and there wasn't any
assessment manual, it’s been almost 35 years since there has been a major
change like this. From what I understand the new Secretary of the
DOR is supportive because it automates and streamlines the process with many
more benefits yet to come. Which means others will be able use the
data. This is also something I’ve been saying for years, there is no
sense in collecting data if no one can use. The days of single purpose
data is history. We have to get away from duplicating records because
someone doesn’t play well in the sand box.
Jeff Bluske
Director - Zoning, Planning & Land Information Dept.
p - 608-785-9724
c - 608-792-1167
f - 608-785-5922
e - bluske.jeff@co.la-crosse.wi.us
w - www.co.la-crosse.wi.us
Jeff Bluske
From: Shields, Scott R -
DOR [mailto:Scott.Shields@revenue.wi.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:35 PM
To: Jeff Bluske
Cc: Adler, Jean L - DOR; Davis, Daniel A - DOR
Subject: PowerPoint Presentation
Good
afternoon Jeff,
Attached
is the PowerPoint that Carol, Jean, and Dan will present this evening.
Can
you make copies for the meeting?
Thank
you!
Scott
R. Shields
Equalization
Section Chief
Bureau
of Property Tax
WI-DOR
Phone:
(608) 266-8223
Fax:
(608) 264-6897
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