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Show | ?'-fPage¥2 | - December Responsible Weber County Government During the past several ‘months, my wife and I have been working with the Weber - County Commissioners to rec- ~tify erroneously assessed and collected taxes on our home “in Nordic Valley. Due to an D P N e ‘error in the County Assessor S Office, our home was deemed to be a second dwelling (non| pnmary) residence. By coding our property as “recreational” (non—pnmary) we ‘were not afforded the 45% tax “break that we legally should have been rece1v1ng On three HEY informed by the Assessor S Office that there wag nothlng we could do to recoup our T '."'Y”}"r'.‘,;"!‘.".fi S o losses: After an article L regardmg our situation appeared in the Ogden | ' The Sale of Your Land to or’ Secondary residence.” Rui lony Jones Can Be erturned hi accommodation, made for 311 Weber County resi- Clces, is more in keepmg ‘With truth in taxation, and | 'Thanks to 15,964 in Weber County who voted wisely for a change of = More clearly defines to propIty owners if they are being taxed for a primary or sec- county government.. You - Ondyry residence. . should be commended for having a mind of your own ings with the Commission, avid Haun responded to Commissioner Anderson that there are two- thousand (2,000) Weber County homes Unfortunately, he did not | Were “erroneously” coded. Our new County Assessor (as | mformed us that one of her initiatives upon- assummg | offlce will be to research these 2,000 tax payers to We * ensure that their homes have‘f Were -informed by Cheryl Madsen (Weber County’s new ~ the County Commrssron instructed the County taxpayer and demonstraung' | what “Respon31ble ) Government 18 all about exclusive hunting rights, if ‘he would return the land to 5 accusing us of "Possessmg - the Devil, Sabotaglng their ad beside it with much‘ | ernment. Unfortunate- | ‘For Change Of Govern- ly, it costs to challenge in - bolder wording, "Vote No ment," yet still charged us $600 to run ours one time! In. sprte of all this, it was a The Standard's editorial blatantly instructing the vot- - close race because many ~ ers to vote "No" obviously knowledgeable voters swayed many! Why does refused to be mrsled ThlS victory was not one to be : the Standard Examiner have ¥ allegiance to the "good ol' proud of, it was a Standard boys" to make sure they Crucifixion! Now Weber stay. in control? Purposely, ~ County Commisioners are our proposal was placed on | showmg thelr apprecratlon"_ ~ the back side of the ballot. by raising your property . been coded properly. - There was another responsible decision by our Assessor) that State Tax Law ‘County Commissioners as a. - 59-2-1321 allows for the ~ direct result of our appeal. County Comm1ss1oners to Weber County now has a new refund erroneously assessed Tax Review Committee which " and collected taxes. will hear any and all propertyMy wife and I approached tax-related concerns or prob| the County commission and, lems which county re51dents may- have. - after several meetings, a com~ promise was grantéd and we - My wrfe and I commend ‘the County Commissioners received a refund. More -1mportant and hence the prrand our new County Assessor ‘_ for being responsive tothe ~ mary purpose of this article, Examlner names for accountability, laws were broken in your loss for changing the gov- know how many of the 2,000 of .January 1, 1999) has 1It's past time to resolve County residents did not vote on this issue. We only s the Wrongful sale of the - Tlost by 2,300 votes! public land in Wolf Creek l Unfortunately our pro| ‘Rulon J ones has been posal was blown,_,away with ~ offered his money back ‘newspaper ads without | “plus the ability to retain ~ the people Rulon should Democracy, and Drsruptrng | qu1t ehasrng moose and ~and for voting. | the Olymplcs ‘The newsrealize taxpayers pald ~ Three attorneys have wr paper placed a bold adver$20() 000 for this land 25 tising headmg on top of the advised that your civil years ago. Weber County only ad we ran, then placed rights were violated and Commrssroners stole our - During one of our meet— coded “recreational.” 1998 3 ~ Consequently, 8,300 Weber taxes by 72%. f:160 acre park and trail to - give it to Rulon Jones for only $32,000 - and were caught! In America, when you take something that ' ) doesn't belong to you, it's stealing, and stolen property shall be retumed to the rightful owner. At only 1$32,000, thls is stolenpropertyke _ . Kent Fuller - P.O. Box. 371 " ,_,_Eden Utah 84310 801 745 6621 | 7th Grade Jeremy Wright and N:cole Chournos ~ 8th &G‘rade" ¢ Michael Olsen and Anne Shaw “Assessor’s Office to change the language on future tax “notices to delete the. desrgna- | Tonl V & Patrrcra A Batr | ' tion of “recreational property” : N ordtc Valley and replace it with “primary” e T N e N TN T N \-/" \-/WW\V/\\/"\,/W\,/‘ ‘\,”\~¢W/\/\v4'\\/\v«”\./“\“/‘ 3 B i different occasions, we were Standard ~ Volume 1, Issue The Ogden Valley News BYU Student, Keira Peort enjnous the frstsnow m}Provo Remember to send a copy of The. Og_den yolleu News to. students t. - away from home and to missionaries and military personnel. Heepus | f_;_\_updotedon uour Ioved ones LUhO ore owou from home ond send us |