Board of Review/Open Book — Agenda

Notice that the Assessment Roll is Open for Examination and Open Book NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the 2025 Assessment Roll for the City of Mondovi will be available for public examination during regular City Hall office hours beginning May 8, 2025. Persons wishing to meet directly with the Assessor may schedule an appointment by calling City Hall or the Assessor’s Office. Additionally, the City Assessor will be present during Open Book, Thursday, May 8, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at Mondovi City Hall Council Chambers, 156 S. Franklin Street, Mondovi. Instructional materials shall be available to persons who wish to object to valuations under Wis. Stat § 70.47. Before filing form #PA-115A, Formal Objection to Property Assessment, it is recommended that you review your assessment with the City Assessor. Note: Property owners receiving a change in valuation shall be mailed a notice of the 2025 assessed valuation of their property, as required by Wis. Stat § 70.365. Notice of Board of Review NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mondovi Board of Review (BOR) will hold its meeting on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at City Hall Council Chambers, 156 S. Franklin Street, Mondovi, Wisconsin.  PLEASE BE ADVISED of the requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedures if appearing: 1. 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 the person’s objection except at a session of the BOR. 2. The BOR may not hear an objection to the amount or valuation of property unless, at least 48 hours before the BOR’s first scheduled meeting, the objector provides to the BOR Clerk written or 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 BOR shall waive that requirement during the first 2 hours of the BOR’s first scheduled meeting, and the BOR 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 BOR during the first 2 hours of the first meeting. 3. Objections to the amount or valuation of property shall first be made in writing and filed with the clerk of the BOR within the first 2 hours of the BOR’s first scheduled meeting, except that, upon evidence of extraordinary circumstances, the BOR 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. The BOR may require objections to the amount or valuation of property to be submitted on forms approved by the Department of Revenue, and the board 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 in support of the objections and made full disclosure before the board, under oath, of all 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 BOR. 4. When appearing before the BOR, 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 BOR, testify to the board 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 the person supplies the assessor with all the information about income and expenses that the assessor requests, per the Assessor’s Manual under Wis. Stat § 73.03 (2a). The City of Mondovi 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 persons using information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or the duties of their officer or by order of a court. The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determined 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 BOR a letter from a physician, surgeon, or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability. No other persons may testify by telephone. 7.   No person may appear before the BOR, testify to the board by telephone, 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. Stat § 70.47(3) (a), that person provides to the clerk of the BOR notice as to whether the person will ask for the removal of a member of the BOR and, if so, which member, and provides a reasonable estimate of the length of time the hearing will take. Notice is hereby given this 14th day of April 2025. Jackie Dregney, Clerk Postings: 4/14/25 at Mondovi Police Station, Mondovi Post Office, Mondovi Public Library, Buffalo Co. News, and Mondovi City Hall door & website Published in the Buffalo County News: 4/24/25