Grand Chute's town assessor recently attended a meeting of the Wisconsin Assessors Association. A board member relayed that Secretary of Revenue Ervin has announced the Countywide Assessment Proposal is officially dead.
Secretary Erwin had proposed reducing the 1,851 assessment districts in the State to 100 districts or less will benefit property tax payers with a streamlined, cost effective procedure under county management. Currently, Wisconsin has the largest number of assessment districts of any state.
Opponents of the plan cited enormous start-up costs and non uniformity of municipalities in each county.
The state will be making an official announcement, and plans to tighten some rules on the reevaluations and Assessor qualification standards throughout the state. Our assessor was informed that jurisdicitions that will to retain their current Assessor and locally controlled processes will be able to do so.
