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sessment next year. Later in Monday’s agenda after the public hearing on the feed Oak ag district, the supervisors were scheduled to take up a proposal for requesting a one or two year delay in the scheduled reassessment .
But whether the reassessment comes in 1984, 1985 or 1986, the board isn’t bound to the assessment values now in effect for the different categories of land in ag districts, Estes noted. “YOU KNOW we don’t have to live with this for eight years down the road,” he told Eastham. “It’s not as you say it is. These things can be changed.”
The supervisor acknowledged that Manwaring’s tax bill and the tax bills of others in ag districts may have dropped this year. “But if we bring these values back in line, their taxes will go up,” he said.
Pointing to Eastham’s claim that ag districts approved for eight years are cast in stone for that same period, Estes said: “When facts go astray, you should straighten them out.”
Charles K. Estes’ motion to approve the Red Oak district with a second from Hubert Gilkey passed unanimously, 4-0. Supervisor H. B. Wood abstained on grounds of possible conflict of interest since he was one of the applicants for the district.
Other property owners include J. Laurence, Edward, James, Bernice and H. Laurence Manwaring, Janice Burton, Mary Jamieson, Natalie Emery, Weldon Burke, J. Maurice O’Bannon, Clifton and June Clark, H. B. and Julia Q. Wood, Lacy and Ruth Orange, William Hancock, Roberts Owen and John Schafer.
The board also gave unanimous 5-0 approval to a tag-on to the Jenkins Mountain district.
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