Evidence?

Try: 300 East, Carl Drummer’s free storage and take-home unmarked police cruiser, 300 East again just because it was so outrageous, Andre Carson (just because Julia said so on her deathbed). I could go on, but you get the point.

Oh…wait. Some counties don’t HAVE township assessors? How does that work?

Hell, I’ll settle for: accurate description of property improvements, proper measurements on those improvements, and values within three years. Values using comps and consistent assessing methods.

I know the market. I can do the math on the three years leading up to the transaction. Just get me in the ballpark. I cna adjsut up or down based on market conditions.

I know full well what the DLGF tells township assessors. In writing and in person. By the way, do you think the DLGF would mind if the valuations were current-time? Hell no they wouldn’t, IF the assessments were done properly.

It really is a mess statewide, and if you cannot admit that, then you’re part of the problem. Because real estate values are one of the core denominators in our entire economic system, the valuations should be done properly. Why are we entrusting that to a township elected official with no requirements whatsoever?

Well, come to think of it…this IS a state that lets a freaking chiropractor become coroner. So anything’s possible.

Trained professional assessors/valuators is the only answer. I don’t have a clue whether that would cost more or less than the current system, and I don’t care. We need to pay the cost of doing it properly–so much is based on successful, consistent property assessment and valuation. One countywide elected official to oversee the professional process seems about right, but I’d listen to other ideas.

Now, you cannot get consistent assessments in neighboring Marion County townships, let alone statewide.

I can count on two hands the good township assessors I’ve dealt with in this state. I think they, and their staffs, want to do the right job. But so few are properly trained and ahve the require dbackground to do the job. It should not be an on-the-job learning experience. Go peddle your job protection nonsense elsewhere. Taxpayers are tired of it. And the 1100 was the total number of township officials. Sorry for that error.

Wilson–the fact remains, Gene Akers, at the time of his election, was the “head” janitor. He was elected because he kissed the ring of the Center Gulag and he had zero qualifications. Another candidate had proper certification as an appraiser, but because she didn’t kiss the ring, she wasn’t favored. The number of janitors he supervised, while an important job, has nothing to do with it. You really don’t want to hold up IPS as a model of bureaucratic efficiency, do you? His election was a crime.

And one of the primary reasons this decrepit system has to go. Do you really want warmed-over head janitors assessing your property? Huh?

You’ll love having an auto mechanic work on your molars.