Notice is hereby given that the Board of Review (BOR) for the Town of Liberty Grove, Door County, Wisconsin, shall hold its first meeting after completion of the assessment roll on the seventeenth day of August, 2022 beginning at 1:00 pm at the Liberty Grove Town Hall at 11161 Old Stage Road, Sister Bay, Wisconsin.
Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the BOR and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board:
- Wis. Stats. §70.47(7)(aa) provides that the BOR may deny a hearing to a property owner who does not allow the assessor to complete an exterior view.
- After the first meeting of the BOR and before the BOR’s final adjournment, no person who is scheduled to appear before the BOR may contact, or provide information to, a member of the BOR about that person’s objection except at a BOR session.
- No person may appear before the BOR, testify to the BOR by phone or contest the amount of any assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the first meeting of the BOR or at least 48 hours before the objection is heard if the objection is allowed under Wis. Stats. §70.47(3)(a), that person provides to the BOR clerk notice as to whether the person will ask for removal under Wis. Stats. §70.47(6m)(a) and if so which member will be removed and the person’s reasonable estimate of the length of time that the hearing will take.
- When appearing before the BOR, the person shall specify, in writing, his/her estimate of the land value and improvements that he/she is objecting, and the person must specify the information that he/she used to arrive at that estimate.
- No person may appear before the BOR, testify to the BOR by phone or object to a valuation; if that valuation was made by the assessor or the objector using the income method; unless no later than seven days before the first meeting of the BOR the person supplies to the assessor all the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Wis. Stats. §73.03(2a), that the assessor requests. The Town of Liberty Grove has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph and provides exceptions for persons using the information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under Wis. Stats. §19.35(1), unless a court determines before the first meeting of the BOR that the information is inaccurate.
- The BOR shall hear upon oath, by phone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the BOR a letter from a physician, surgeon or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability. No other persons may testify by phone.
Wisconsin law states, “Instead of appearing in person…the BOR may allow the property owner…to appear before the board, under oath, by telephone or to submit written statements, under oath, to the board” (Wis., Stats., §70.47(8)). Please contact the municipal clerk for accommodations to file objections remotely by phone, or to file objections in writing at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled BOR date and time.
Dated this 29th day of July, 2022
Anastasia Bell, Clerk/Treasurer
Town Hall phone: 920-854-2934, fax 854-7366
Town email: [email protected]
