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BOARD OF REVIEW MINUTES May 9, 2016 DRAFT 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 1 MINUTES 2 BOARD OF APPEAL 3 4 DATE : May 9, 2016 5 TIME STARTED : 6:00 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 6:20 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Maher, Manthey, Rafferty, 8 Kusterman and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 10 11 Staff members present: Community Development Director Michael Grochala; Public Safety Director 12 John Swenson; City Clerk Julie Bartell 13 14 Anoka County Assessor Staff present: Molly Johnson, Commercial Appraiser; Scott Schutz, 15 Residential Appraiser. 16 17 Mayor Reinert called the meeting to order. 18 19 The council had reviewed the official board report at a recent work session. 20 21 Anoka County Appraiser Schutz explained that County staff has taken a few phone calls from 22 property owners with questions. He believes they were able to answer all questions satisfactorily. 23 Overall, the residential assessments rose about four percent. He explained the average sales price, up 24 about six percent, and the number of sales on which they were able to base their valuations. Bank 25 owned properties are lower and new construction is rising. 26 27 Molly Johnson, noted that there have been some larger increases on the commercial side. She has 28 received three or four calls. Some commercial property owners were present and she indicated that 29 she had not spoken with them. 30 31 The Mayor noted that, based on the report of the Anoka County Assessor, there are not remaining 32 questions or concerns about residential properties. 33 34 Jackie McNamara and Richard McNamara, stated that they are business partners with the Fogerty 35 family in ownership of Lino Lakes Business Center at 524 Apollo Drive. When they received their 36 valuation for 2017 and compared it with the previous two years, the increase was drastic. They 37 haven’t been able to receive comparables to justify the increase but she did put together some 38 information on her own (which was distributed to council and staff). They are asking for 39 consideration of that data. They fear that the tax increase resulting from a drastic increase in valuation 40 would have to be passed on to the tenants and ultimately may cause vacancies. The facilities are at 41 the low end of the leasing scale and that keeps them rented. She added that they attempted to sell 42 the buildings last year and received very low offers. They are prepared to speak with County staff 43 about the situation. 44 45