Property tax appeal day
All those Good Government people who don't want to pay property taxes will again help you not pay your taxes too.
The third annual Property tax Appeal Help Day will be held at 10 a.m-1 p.m Jan. 7 in Kennedy Library, 1700 W. McGalliard Road. The Citizens of Delaware County for Good Government host the event and have managed to shave millions off the local property values used to figure taxes for local government and public schools. They also were instrumental along with tax repeal activists, Libertarians and other conservatives to cap property taxes that further bleed education and public safety.
Scott Alexander, president of the Good Government group, said hundreds of people were helped last year to find errors on assessments and prepare property tax appeals. Many people believe their assessments are too high and don't realize they can appeal them every year. While the Good Government folks cannot guarantee a successful appeal, they can provide helpful advice.
Alexander reminds property owners to bring their current property record card besides photos of homes or business buildings besides any other documentation to support the appeal. He's a realtor like Coldwell Banker, Tucker, ReMax, and Osborn who support the effort.
The deadline is file appeals is Jan. 23, according to Delaware County Assessor James Carmichael, who allows the Good Government folks to hand out of appeal flyers in his office.
Carmichael said appeals only amount to about 1 percent of all properties, about 58,000 parcels currently in the county. And the impact of successful appeals is minimal, considering the county's assessed value of property is around $5 billion.
The Good Government folks still a good service just like the AARP does helping those of age with their income taxes. People need help facing government and banks and that's why there are so many special interest groups. You can go to www.forgoodgovernment.com to find out more or just remember some of their names like Alexander, Chris Hiatt, Cary Malchow, Tom Parker, or Sen. Doug Eckerty, R-Yorktown, one of the founders of the Good Government group.
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Speaking of Chris Hiatt,
Speaking of Chris Hiatt, who runs Hiatt Printing, it will be interesting to watch how he performs in 2012 without Mayor Sharon McShurley who paid for his printing and other services to the tune of thousands of dollars.
Hiatt has been running the camera for local government meetings and making those cartoon like You Tube videos that some people enjoy. While he thinks local Democrats are dysfunctional, the Good Government folks just got kicked out of the local Republican Party by "Will I am" Statom, party chairman, who does not tolerate the group's support for Team Democrats, a dissident group of the Delaware County Democratic Central Committee.
Since McShurley is out of office,and Shareen Wagley left as vice chairman of the Republican Party, there's plenty of dissident Republicans including longtime party loyalists like David Taylor, a former veteran city council member and local certified public accountant William Summers, who are outside the party circle.
And we the people forgot about others like new Yorktown Town Council member Steve Fields, who was not even invited to a swearing in ceremony of local Republicans, that only included Muncie City Council members Brad Polk, a former party leader, and Mark Conatser. Fields said Statom did not even acknowledge him when he crashed the gathering.
Statom probably can get away with doing nothing in 2012 like he did in McShurley's campaign since Indiana will go red with the millions of dollars from Republican Congressman Mike Pence's gubernatorial campaign and U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar's re-election organization. And don't forget billionaire Mitt Romney and his presidential campaign that will be decided in a few weeks with the Iowa and Nevada caucuses this month besides primaries in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.
But Lugar could be stopped by the Tea Party and the likes of Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock. And guess who the Delaware County Republican Central Committee supports in that race. Only Mourdock flyers and campaign material are found at downtown headquarters from Mourdock's visit earlier this month had no public attention.
So what will Hiatt do with Democrats in control of local government? Probably continue those funny You Tube videos that are not that funny anymore.