Friday, March 12, 2010

County Assessments Likely To Stand Unchanged

Remember that 2009 property assessment that came in the mail last September? The good news is (unless you appealed and won a reduction) that's probably what your assessment is going to turn out to be. McHenry County Assessor Donna Mayberry reported Thursday all the appeals are done and there wasn't enough cumulative change to trigger a multiplier. Probably.

Algonquin Township Assessor Bob Kunz warned in January the County's independent Board of Review was being so lenient on appeals that Mayberry might have to raise all his township's assessments to even things out again. Mayberry said that didn't happen, though.

"In the last couple of days we had some big housing and commercial appeals (in Algonquin Township) and we were were getting worried but it didn't change things significantly," she said.

County Clerk Kathie Schultz said she certified the County's assessment report Monday and sent it off to Springfield for review there. Mayberry said she was confident the county would end up with a multiplier of 1, that is, no change to local assessments. Schultz said it might take a month to six weeks for an official OK, though.

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