Many building owners in various downtown areas–including Platte City, Parkville, Dearborn, among others–have reportedly been hit hard by what is known as reassessment. The county assessor’s office has applied increases in assessed value by as much as five times the previous value, some downtown building owners are saying.
The three-member Platte County Board of Equalization will hear appeals of tax assessments this summer.
According to the county assessor’s website, here are the steps available to you in an appeals process:
If you disagree with your property’s valuation during any tax year, you may appeal by following these steps:
- Informal hearings: call or meet with an appraiser prior to June 30. Be prepared with documentation as evidence of the value you believe to be accurate, including information such as pictures, a recent sale of your property, or an appraisal of your property.
- Board of Equalization: if you disagree with the appraiser, you can appeal to the Platte County Board of Equalization (BOE). Appeal forms are available at the assessor’s office and must be completed and returned to the assessor’s office BEFORE the second Monday in July. The BOE will hear your evidence of property value during a scheduled hearing in July.
- State Tax Commission: you MUST appeal to the local BOE before going on to the State Tax Commission (STC). If you disagree with the BOE’s decision, you have the right to appeal to the STC in writing no later than Sept. 30 or 30 days after the BOE’s decision, whichever date is later.
I find the sitcom The Neighborhood starring Cedric the Entertainer entertaining. Monday nights at 7 on CBS. It’s not like can’t miss TV or anything, but if I’m home on a Monday evening I turn it on. Always worth some laughs.
Thursday nights, 7:30, on CBS: Ghosts is a funny sitcom. I’ll die on that hill. Much like the ghosts did.
No other musician in the world is on a bigger roll right now than Taylor Swift. Take note anytime you have the radio on in your car. You’re guaranteed to hear a Taylor Swift song, or two, or three. It’s in the Constitution.
Not saying I hate it because I don’t. I’m a Taylor Swift fan. Just pointing out the frequency of the air play she is getting. And now that I’ve mentioned it, you’ll start noticing it.
There should be a Sirius XM channel devoted to Taylor Swift music. Come at me.
My new grill is finally in place, you guys. The one I mentioned I was shopping for about six or seven weeks ago. Progress takes time. Finally found the winner. It’s a Weber model, in the Weber Spirit series.
First KC strips on it were a hit last week. Then it was the basics like burgers and dogs. On Saturday, I stepped it up a notch with two racks of ribs. I don’t want to say it was perfection. But I’ll say it anyway. It was perfection.
Keep watching your mail for that invitation, let’s do this.
My wife and I went to Zona Rosa last Friday night to hear the Zeros in the first of the Friday Night Summer Concert Series. Huge crowd, great music, they had a beer truck on hand, a food truck, perfect weather. Great night.
About halfway through the night, my wife tapped me and pointed out there was a man about 10 yards in front of us who was barefoot. He had painted toenails. My first thought, was ok, that’s weird, why is my wife drawing my attention to a man with painted toenails. While I’m personally not into that sort of thing, I’m a “you do you” when it comes to personal appearances. Then it hit me what she was doing. Think Guy Speckman. Speckman is our page 3 columnist who recently did an extensive series of columns on how much he hates looking at anyone’s toes. “Oh, we gotta get a pic for Speckman,” I said out loud as the mental light bulb came on.
There was a brief discussion over which one of us would discreetly try to snap the photo. I think she preferred that I be the one to do it. My feeling was I didn’t want the guy to look up to see me pointing a camera in the direction of his exposed toes and get the wrong idea. I’d have to awkwardly explain to him the picture was being taken for Guy Speckman’s journalistic purposes. We found a way to snap the pic while pretending to be in a discussion about something on the phone screen when in actuality the phone’s camera was pointed in the direction of Mr. Barefoot’s toes.
I then texted the painted toe pic to Speckman, who was probably six or seven Bud Lights into his Friday night by then. “(Expletive). You’re going to hell,” was Speckman’s response.
Landmark Live will be back in about six weeks, late July/early August. Our producer, Tech Man Schneider, and I reached that conclusion in a phone conversation last week. In 2023, each of your Landmark personalities has had his time occupied with important activities that have cut into our availability for Landmark Live episodes. If you’ve checked out Chris Kamler’s social media in recent months you’ve seen some hints about his personal situation, Tech Man has been consumed with his real job and with coaching youth sports, the Foley/Shifflett families have been engaged in Baby Van’s health and getting him home from the hospital, Brad Carl has been busy sending a Trump-level amount of emails about his YouTube music offerings, and Speckman has been studying the unique shape and bone structure of human toes.
(Foley can be found trying to counsel Speckman through his anti-foot fetish)