04-28-2014 Local Board of Appeal and Equalization Minutes

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BOARD OF REVIEW MINUTES April 28, 2014 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 BOARD OF APPEAL 4 5 DATE : April 28, 2014 6 TIME STARTED : 6:15 p.m. 7 TIME ENDED : 6:40 p.m. 8 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council Member Stoesz, Roeser, Rafferty, 9 Kusterman and Mayor Reinert 10 MEMBERS ABSENT : none 11 12 Staff members present: Community Development Director Michael Grochala; City Clerk Julie 13 Bartell; Anoka County Assessor Staff present: Alex Guggenberger, Assessment Compliance 14 Coordinator; Peggy Nordrum, Appraiser; Dan Esichens, Commercial Appraiser 15 16 Mayor Reinert reviewed the process that would be used for the meeting. 17 18 Anoka County Appraiser Nordrum explained that after appellants are called on to present their 19 appeals, county staff will respond if they've had opportunity to review the appeal. She explained the 20 qualified sales that were used in this year's assessment process. The county has received 55 phone 21 calls to date regarding Lino Lakes' property (and has visited 17). Staff was able to resolve the issues 22 brought up by those calls and in some cases changes were made. Overall, she noted, values in the city 23 are going up and that tends to generate valuation questions. 24 25 The council heard from the following appellants: 26 27 Annette Hanson, 1036 Evergreen Trail Ms. Hanson explained concern about the value of her 28 property. She is in the north area of the city where there are fewer amenities. There is a property in 29 her neighborhood that is actually nicer than her home and it is for sale for less than her value. She 30 thinks it is about $15,000 to $20,000 overvalued. Ms. Nordrum recalled that she visited the property 31 in 2010 and will do so again. There does seem to be some difference in the climate in the 32 neighborhood and she'll be glad to investigate. The mayor suggested that the board will reconvene 33 to consider additional infouuation on the property when that is available. Council staff verified that 34 the Board could reconvene within the next twenty days. 35 36 Council Member Kusterman confirmed that any reduction in the valuation for this property would 37 result at some point in consideration of reducing other property values in the area. 38 39 Tom Jackson, 6910 Otter Lake Road — Mr. Jackson is asking for a $32,000 reduction in valuation. 40 This is a light industrial site that includes a non- comforming residence that is no longer habitable. 41 While he fully intends to remove the inhabitable property as required, he'd like that recognized in the 42 valuation. Mr. Eichens said he saw the property in 2012 and at that point the residence was 43 occupied. Since that is no longer the case, he is willing to take another look. The mayor agreed that 44 the board will also consider any new information on this property when they reconvene. 45 1