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100 percent fair market value appraisals are the basis for that budget.
He suggested postponing implementation of fair market values until next year to provide an opportunity for alleged unequalities in appraisals to be rectified. For 1982-83, Eastham proposed taking las: year's tax bills and increasing the totals due by a percentage that will generate revenue for the $3.6 million expenditures in the coming year.
"Mr. Williams and Mr. Barksdale (members of the Equalization Board) are sick and tired of their jobs and want to run from it now,” Eastham claimed, maintaining that the board’s work on the reassessment has “raised questions all the way to Richmond.” The reason behind the problems is that “the county did not have a hand on the appraiser at the time it (the reassessment) started,” according to Eastham.
Not Quitting
“The Equalization Board has not indicated to the supervisors that they want to quit,” chairman Dick Latham responded.
Former member E. P. Luke interjected that the supervisors realized when they adopted use value taxation over a year ago that some assessments would be higher than others, creating a similar disparity in tax bills. He noted that his own bill had jumped 40 percent because he didn't qualify for land use, adding that 5,100 parcels of county land are currently enrolled in that differentiated assessment program. "Those people are
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