Meetings

Town of Monroe

BOARD OF REVIEW

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

1:00 p.m. (must be in session a minimum of 2 hours)

Town of Monroe Hall

N3302 Monroe Road, Monroe, WI 53566

Agenda:

1. Call Board of Review (BOR) to order
2. Roll Call.
3. Confirmation of appropriate Board of Review and Open Meetings notices.
4. Select a Chairperson for Board of Review.
5. Select a Vice-Chairperson for Board of Review.
6. Verify that at least one BOR member has met the annual mandatory training requirements.
7. Verify that the Town has an ordinance for the confidentiality of income and expense information provided to the assessor under state law (Wis. Stat. 70.47(7)(af)).
8. Review of new laws.
9. Filing and summary of Annual Assessment Report by Assessor’s Office.
10. Receipt of the Assessment Roll by the Clerk from the Assessor.
11. Receive the Assessment Roll and sworn statements from the Clerk.
12. Review the Assessment Roll and Perform Statutory Duties:

            Examine the roll

            Correct description or calculation errors

            Add omitted property, and

            Eliminate double assessed property.

13. Discussion/Action – Certify all corrections of error under state law (Wis. Stat. 70.43).
14. Discussion/Action – Verify with the assessor that open book changes are included in the assessment roll.
15. Allow taxpayers to examine assessment data.
16. During the first two hours, consideration of:

            Waivers of the required 48-hour notice of intent to file an objection when there is good cause,

            Requests for waiver of the BOR hearing allowing the property owner an appeal directly to circuit court,

            Requests to testify by telephone or submit a sworn written statement,

            Subpoena requests, and

            Act on any other legally allowed or required Board of Review matters.

17. Review Notices of Intent to File Objection.
18. Proceed to hear objections, if any, and if proper notice/waivers given unless scheduled for another date.
19. Consider/act on scheduling additional Board of Review Date(s).
20. Adjourn (to future date, if necessary).

Peggy Murphy

Town of Monroe, Clerk/Treasurer

Posted on April 29, 2025

TOWN OF MONROE

OPEN BOOK

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2025

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Via phone, email

The 2025 Tax Roll will be available for inspection and personnel from the Assessors Office will be available to answer questions on the reassessment to your property.  The assessors personnel will be available via phone, email or internet video conferencing.  Tax Roll will be posted on the assessors website for viewing.

TOWN OF MONROE

BOARD OF REVIEW

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2025

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. (or adjournment)

AT THE MONROE TOWN HALL, N3302 Monroe Road

Objection forms and appointments may be obtained from the Clerk.  The Clerk must be notified of intent to file, or the forms returned, 48 hours prior to the Board of Review.

Please be advised of the following requirements to appear before the Board of Review and procedural requirements if appearing before the Board.

No person shall be allowed to appear before the Board of Review, to testify to the board by telephone or to contest the amount of any assessment of real or personal property if the person has refused a reasonable written request by certified mail of the Assessor to view such property.

After the first meeting of the Board of Review and before the Board’s final adjournment, no person who is scheduled to appear before the Board of Review may contact, or provide information to, a member of the Board about the person’s objection except at a session of the Board.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or contest the amount of assessment unless, at least 48 hours before the first meeting of the boards or at least 48 hours before the objection is heard if the objection is allowed because the person has been granted a waiver of the 48 hour notice of an intent to file a written objection by appearing before the Board during the first two hours of the meeting and showing good cause for failure to meet the 48 hour notice requirement and files a written objection, that the person provides to the clerk of the Board of Review notice as to whether the person will ask for removal of any Board members and, if so, which member will be removed and the person’s reasonable estimate of the length of time that the hearing will take.

When appearing before the Board, the person shall specify, in writing, the person’s estimate of the value of the land and of the improvements that are the subject of the person’s objection and specify the information that the person used to arrive at that estimate.

No person may appear before the Board of Review, testify to the Board by telephone or subject or object to a valuation, if that valuation was made by the Assessor or the Objector using the income method, unless the person supplies the Assessor all of the information about income and expenses, as specified in the manual under Sec. 73.02(2a), that the Assessor requests.  The Town of Monroe has an ordinance for the confidentiality of information about income and expenses that is provided to the Assessor under this paragraph which provides exemptions for persons using information in the discharge of duties imposed by law or of the duties of their office or by order of a court.  The information that is provided under this paragraph, unless a court determined that it is inaccurate, is not subject to the right of inspection and copying under Section 19.35(1) of Wisconsin Statutes.

The Board shall hear upon oath, by telephone, all ill or disabled persons who present to the Board a letter from a physician, surgeon or osteopath that confirms their illness or disability.  No other persons may testify by telephone.

A Board may decide to allow at the request of the property owner or their agent:  That the owner or the owners representative appear by telephone under oath and testify.  Submit written statements made under oath.  Board discretion to allow sworn telephone or written testimony (request is not required to be granted).  Facetime or skyping still not allowed.

Town of Monroe

Peggy Murphy, Clerk

608-558-6821 or [email protected]

Posted 4/8/2025

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