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$14,000 an acre and an acre on Tribble
Gap Road was priced at $15,000.
The Polo Fields area also contains
farmland, explained Sherwood Cana
da, director of the re-assessment for
the Ferriss Co.
“All along we have invited you folks
to come in and watch us,” said
Canada.
The assessors need to examine the
company’s approach to fair market
values based on ratios to sales in each
area, said Greenway.
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The Ferriss Co. will leave a crew to
help the tax assessors handle assess
ment hearings requested by property
owners disputing their assessments.
The assessors predicted they would
meet later next week to approve or
disapprove the new figures.
“We’ve been accused of trying to
stall the 1989 digest That’s not what
we’re doing. You can bet if we dis
agree with Bill Ferriss’ figures we are
going to reject them,” said Billy Ev
ans, chairman of the Board of Tax
Assessors.
TAXI on.inued from page 1
tax attorney Conley Ingram of Atlanta
for $15,000 to represent them before
the Supreme Court in Atlanta.
Add to those figures $2,210 for court
reporters during 1989 and 1990.
The cost to the county was always
taken into consideration, said Au
brey Greenway, one of the three
members of the Board of Tax
Assessors.
“In every case we have always dis
cussed the matter with the county ad
ministrator and commissioners if
they thought we were in line to go
ahead with the appeals and they sup
ported us,” he said.
The county authorized the ex
penses in every case, said County Ad
-ministrator Donald Major.
The cost of litigation is taken out of
the professional services portion of
the tax assessors budget It was bud
geted for $25,000 in 1989 and $20,000
in 1990.
Although more than SIO,OOO has
been spent from that portion of the
budget in 1990, legal costs did not ex
ceed the budget in 1989.
Other items which could be paid
for out of professional services are
mapping, professional appraisers’
fees and other services, said James
Payne, chief appraiser.
The tax assessors' office was under
budget $53,000 in 1989 according to
the recent county audit, and is run
ning under budget for the first five
months in 1990.
The final Supreme Court ruling is
the last chapter in the issue which
began in 1986 when the BOE ordered
the tax assessors to complete an in
house re-assessment to equalize
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When that was completed hun
dreds of hearings were requested be
cause of the new assessments.
Through petitions, 600 people began
a suit against the board. When they
found they were not covered in case
of litigation they resigned and with
drew the new digest
When the new assessors came into
office, they submitted the old 1987 di
gest which had had no major changes
since 1982.
The BOE filed a suit and Mills or
dered a county-wide reappraisal be
fore the 1989 tax digest was filed.
The tax assessors went ahead and
filed the old digest as the 1989 digest
in order to bring in taxes for the coun
ty, because the re-assessment was not
finished.
“We have not deliberately fought
this thing at all. We just knew the re
assessment was going to take this
long,” Greenway said.
When the 1989 bills were mailed
the BOE filed another case and Mills
ruled Dec. 29.1989, the bills would be
considered temporary and new bills
would be mailed based on the county
wide re-assessment
The assessors appealed this deci
sion to the Supreme Court who re
turned an unanimous ruling in May
upholding Mills’ decision.
Tax assessors then filed for a re
hearing, hoping to change the court's
mind, but the rehearing was denied
Friday.
“That was sort of an automatic
thing they did it without us having a
lot of discussion about it” said
Greenway.
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