October/November 2025 Board of Review and Open Book Notice (PDF)

TOWN OF FENCE, FLORENCE COUNTY, WISCONSIN NOTICE OF THE BOARD OF REVIEW AND OPEN BOOK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to s. 70.45, Wis. Stats., the assessment roll for the 2025 assessment year will be open for examination on OCTOBER 7, 2025 from 10a.m. to 6p.m. by appointment only. If you would like to arrange a phone or in-person appointment, please contact R&R Assessing Services, LLC. at (920) 846-4250 during regular business hours. The 2025 assessment roll, instructional information, and objection forms will be made available. These documents will assist with scheduling a hearing before the Board of Review. Keep in mind that objection forms must be filed with the clerk of the Board of Review at least 48 hours before the Board of Review is conducted unless the Board of Review chooses to waive this requirement. An open book notice was posted in three places and website previously. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the BOARD OF REVIEW for the TOWN of FENCE of FLORENCE COUNTY shall be held on NOVEMBER 7, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at the FENCE TOWN HALL, 588 Memory Lane. By appointment only. Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board: 1. After the first meeting of the Board of Review and before the Board of Review’s final adjournment, no person who is scheduled to appear before the Board of Review may contact or provide information to a member of the Board of Review about the person’s objection, except a session of the Board of Review. Open Book shall occur no less than 7 days prior to the Board of Review. 30 days in a revaluation year. 2. The Board of Review may not hear an objection to the amount or valuation of property unless, at least 48 hours before the Board of Review’s first scheduled meeting, the objector provides to the Board of Review Clerk written of oral notice of an intent to file an objection, except that upon a showing of good cause and the submission of a written objection, the Board of Review shall waive that requirement during the first two hours of the Board of Review’s first scheduled meeting, and the Board of Review may waive that requirement up to the end of the 5th day of the session, or up to the end of the final day of the session if the session is less than 5 days, with proof of extraordinary circumstances for failure to meet the 48-hour notice requirement and failure to appear before the Board of Review during the first 2 hours of the first scheduled meeting. 3. Objections to the amount or valuation of property shall first be made in writing and filed with the Board of Review clerk within the first two hours of the Board of Review’s first scheduled meeting, except that, upon evidence of extraordinary circumstances, the Board of Review may waive that requirement up to the end of the 5th day of session, or up to the final day of session if the session is less than 5 days. The Board of Review may require objections to the amount or valuation of property to be submitted on forms approved by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, and the Board of Review shall require that any forms include stated valuations of the property in question. Persons who own land and improvements to that land may object to the aggregate valuation of that land and improvements to that land, but no person who owns land and improvements to that land may object only to the valuation of that land or only to the valuation of improvements to that land. No person may be allowed in any action or proceedings to question the amount or valuation of property unless the written objection has been filed and that person in good faith presented evidence to the Board of Review in support of the objections and made full disclosure before the Board of Review, under oath, of all of that person’s property liable to assessment in the district and the value of that property. The requirement that objections be in writing may be waived by express action of the Board. 4. When appearing before the Board of Review, the objecting person shall specify in writing the person’s estimate of the value of the land and of the improvements that are the subject of the person’s objection and specify the information used to arrive at that estimate. 5. No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board of Review by telephone, or object to a valuation if that valuation was made by the assessor or the objector using the income method of valuation, unless no later than 7 days before the first meeting of the Board of Review, the person supplies the assessor with all the information about income and expenses that the assessor requests, as specified in the Assessor’s Manual under Wis. Stat. §73.03(2a). The Town of Fence has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph that provides exceptions for person’s using information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or the duties of their officer or by order of the court. The information that is provided in this paragraph, unless a court determines that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under Wis. Stat.§19.35(1). 6. The Board of Review shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the Board of Review a letter from a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice nurse prescriber certified under s.§441.16(2) that confirms their illness or disability. No other person may testify by telephone unless the Board of Review, in its discretion, has determined to grant a property owner’s or their representative’s request to testify under oath by telephone or written statement. 7. No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board of Review by telephone, or contest the amount of any assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the objection is allowed under Wis. Stat.§70.47(3)(a), that person provides notice to the Board of Review Clerk as to whether the person will ask for the removal of a member of the Board of Review and, which member, and provides a reasonable estimate of the length of time the hearing will take. 8. No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the Board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the assessor to enter onto the property to conduct an exterior view of the real or personal property being assessed. This Notice is hereby published on the 1st day of October 2025 by Theresa Smith, Town Clerk/Treasurer Posted at: The Fence Town Hall The Fence Post Office Uncle Richard’s Fence Post townoffence.com The Florence Mining News