
{"id":6130,"date":"2009-06-11T06:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2009-06-11T06:40:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:40:22","slug":"record-number-of-appeals-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/06\/11\/record-number-of-appeals-filed\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of appeals filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rich Fowler<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property revaluation has led to an unprecedented number of appeals, county officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The Orange County Tax Assessor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office has processed more than 5,000 informal appeals, according to Orange County assessor John Smith That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four times more than they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had to handle before.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never had over 1,200,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The assessor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office sent out the first batch of 4,724 notices on May 29, with the rest expected to be sent out by late June.  <\/p>\n<p>By the time they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re done, Smith estimates the county will have sent out between 7,000 to 8,000 notices. Besides appeals, 500 to 600 of the notices are for last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new construction and the rest come from other reviews. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We also review numerous areas and reviewed areas that weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t appealed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said that approximately 50 percent of the appealed valuations had been reduced.<\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think the quality of the appeals has been much higher than what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen in previous years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Instead of it being just somebody writing in or coming in and just saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too high,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 most appeals have had some good documentation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Residents who still want to appeal after getting their notice from the assessor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office can appeal to the Orange County Board of Equalization and Review. <\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make sure that every person has at least a minimum of 30 days to get that appeal in,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who missed the March 31 deadline to file an informal appeal to have their revaluation reviewed can still file an appeal with the board until July 23.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, residents can choose between appearing in person before the board and filing their appeal on paper. The idea was to make the appeals process more accessible for people with busy schedules.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The good thing about people being there is that if the board has questions, they can ask them right then; but the flip side of that is that if the board has questions, we can always call and ask.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Smith says he thinks the large number of appeals will help the revaluation be more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We appreciate the input. I think that ultimately, the revaluation is going to be 5,000 appeals better than it would have been. Whether we made an adjustment or not on an individual appeal, I think that the overall effort is going to be much better. The results are going to be much better than they would have been if we hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had the input from the individuals that we have had.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Forms to file an appeal with the board are available at the Orange County Tax Assessor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/co.orange.nc.us\/assessor\">co.orange.nc.us\/assessor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rich Fowler Staff Writer Orange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property revaluation has led to an unprecedented number of appeals, county officials say. The Orange County Tax Assessor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office has processed more than 5,000 informal appeals, according to Orange County assessor John Smith That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four times more than they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever had to handle before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6131,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions\/6131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}