Board-of-Review-Posting-9-12-2022

BOARD OF REVIEW NOTICE Notice is hereby given the Board of Review for the Village of Wyocena, Columbia County, will be held Monday, September 12, 2022, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room, 165 East Dodge Street, Wyocena. If necessary, additional dates will be used to reconvene said meeting, as determined by the Board. Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedura l requirements if appearing before the Board: 1. 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 property to conduct an exterior view of the real or personal property bei ng assessed. 2. After the first meeting of the board of review and before the board'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 about that person 's objection except at a session of the board. 3. No person may appear before the board of review, testify to the board by telephone, or contest the amoun t of any assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the first meeting of the board, or at least 48 hours before the obj ection is heard if the objection is allowed under s.70.47 (3) (a), Wis. stats., that person provides to the clerk of the board of review notice as to whether the person will ask for the removal of a member of the board of review and, if so, which m ember, and provides a reasonable estimate of the length of time the hearing will take. 4. When appearing before the board, the person shall specify, in writing, the person's esti mate of the value of the land and of the improvements that are the subject of the person's objection and specify the information that the person used to arrive at that estimate. 5. No person may appear before the board of review, testify to the board by telephone or object to a val uation; if that valuation was made by the assessor or the objector using the income method; unless no later than 7 days before the first meeting of the board of review the person supplies to the assessor all of the information about income and expenses that the assessor requests. The municipality or county shall provide by ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the assessor under this paragraph and shall provide exceptions for persons usin g 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 s.s. 19.35(1) unles s a court determines before the first meeting of the board of review that the information is inaccurate. 6. The board shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the bo ard a letter from a physician, surgeon, or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability. No other persons may testify by telephone unless the Board, 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. Notice is hereby given this 9th day of August 2022. Village of Wyocena Lori Kratky, Administrator/Clerk-Treasurer