►
From YouTube: May 3, 2017 Taxes
Description
Minneapolis Taxes Committee Meeting
A
A
We
have
a
single
discussion
item
on
our
agenda
today,
that
is
to
receive
the
report
of
our
Board
of
Appeals
and
equalization.
As
you
know,
this
special
Board
is
established
under
local
authority
to
arbitrate
dispute
about
the
classification
and
market
value
of
assessments
of
properties
within
the
city.
A
The
board
has
the
authority
to
decrease,
sustain
or
increase
the
market
value
of
a
property
and
to
submit
its
recommendations
to
this
body
for
final
actions
by
the
full
City
Council
in
accordance
with
city
policy
board,
consists
of
licensed,
realtor,
certified
appraiser
and
a
freeholder
or
a
property
owner
within
the
city.
The
staff
report
includes
a
statistical
summary
of
the
board's
work
this
year,
as
well
as
copies
of
his
proceedings.
A
B
Morning,
mr.
chair
and
members
of
the
committee,
thank
you
has
stated.
My
name
is
KC.
Karl
I
have
the
privilege
of
serving
a
city
clerk,
as
the
chair
indicated
I'm
here,
to
deliver
the
2017
board
of
appeal.
Equalization
report
is
required
under
the
city
charter,
under
the
city's
Code
of
Ordinances
and
various
applicable
state
law.
The
report
contains
the
recommendations
of
the
board
to
change
assessments
on
six
properties
located
in
Minneapolis,
which
must
be
confirmed
by
action
of
the
City
Council.
B
The
2017
board
was
impaneled
on
April
12
and
conducted
its
meetings
on
April,
12
and
26.
A
total
of
1,300
are
filed
with
the
clerk's
office
and
of
these
only
six
were
ultimately
presented
for
a
hearing
before
the
board.
A
synopsis
of
final
action
is
provided
in
a
series
of
tables
that
were
included
with
your
briefing
materials
of
the
six
appeals
that
were
considered
the
board
recommended
the
valuation
on
to
properties
be
sustained
and
that
the
valuation
of
four
properties
be
decreased.
The
board
did
not
recommend
any
increase
in
valuation
on
any
prop.
B
A
total
of
167
appeals
have
qualified
for
a
hearing
before
the
Hennepin
County
Board
of
Appeal
in
equalization,
if
approved
by
City
Council.
The
city's
assessment
roles
will
be
finalized
to
conform
with
the
recommendations
that
were
submitted
by
the
local
board,
and
then
those
roles
will
be
transmitted
to
the
City
Assessor,
the
Hennepin
County
Board
of
appeal
and
equalization,
and
the
State
Tax
Commissioner,
with
requests
to
get
full
effect
to
the
city's
adjusted
and
corrected
assessment
roles.
Mr.
B
C
C
To
give
you
a
few
summaries
of
what
happened
at
the
local
board
or
actually
the
assessment.
Our
tax
base
is
around
forty
seven
point
three
billion
dollars
at
this
point,
which
is
a
pretty
significant
number
in
2013
we're
at
about
32
billion
dollars.
So,
in
a
short
period
of
time
we
went
from
32
to
47
billion,
which
is
about
a
42
percent
or
a
little
bit
more
than
40
percent
increase
in
just
four
years.
You
can
see
that
we
saw
a
significant
increase
in
residential
with
8
percent.
C
C
C
I
think
following
the
market,
I
think
we're
seeing
an
increase
in
Appeals,
just
because,
as
I
talked
about
a
thirty
two
billion,
a
forty
seven
billion
dollar
increase
in
taxable
days,
people
are
very
aware
and
conscious
of
their
values
and
in
addition
to
their
tax
bill
that
goes
along
with
that
value.
I
would
probably
expect
to
see
appeals
next
year.
Right
now,
the
real
estate
market
is
leased
in
the
residential
sector
is
extremely
active
and
I
would
say
it's
extremely
hot,
very
much
a
seller's
market
I
was
talking
to
somebody
over
the
weekend.
C
She
lost
out
on
three
condominiums
offers
and
had
a
bit
about
15,000
over
her
last
condominium
to
make
sure
if
she
got
it
on
the
fourth.
Try.
It's
just
there's
so
few
houses
out
there
the
purchased
that
the
ones
that
are
being
offered
for
sale
in
many
many
cases,
they're
being
bid
for
this
next
slide
here
is
appeals
by
Ward.
Not
a
lot
to
to
note.
I
can
tell
you
that
there
was
in
councilmember
Palmisano
area.
C
We
did
quite
a
bit
of
a
number
of
the
condominiums
in
his
work
this
last
year
and
that's
probably
why
the
you
saw
a
spike
in
that
yeah
and
appeals
by
a
property
type
again
Minneapolis
we
have
about
111,000
out
of
130,000
parcels
or
residential
is
111
thousand,
and
so
it's
obviously,
if
we're
going
to
have
more
residential
appeals
than
anything
else
again.
The
the
slight
increase
in
condominiums
was
primarily
just
because
we
spent
a
lot
of
time
revaluing
the
kind
of
downtown.
In
fact,
we
did
something
when
we
did
kind
of
in
a
mystery.
C
C
Just
because
we
were
present
Iran
on
the
property
and
we
had
the
permission
of
the
management
company
or
the
homeowners
association,
so
that
was
I
was
exciting
because,
anytime,
you
get
more
data.
You
see
more
properties,
you're
going
to
have
a
better
assessment,
so
this
is
the
second
to
last
line.
This
is
our
quintile
or
our
equalization
by
statute.
We
have
to
look
at
20%
of
the
city
every
year,
so
everything
in
green
goes
what
we
had
done
last
year,
that
was
about
27,000
parcels
that
we
door
knocked
and
door
tagged.
C
Everything
in
yellow
is
what
my
staff,
probably
before
the
end
of
this
month,
will
start
door
knocking
in
door
taking
as
well
27,000
that's
about
I
think
we
have
13
people
that
are
doing
the
majority
of
that
work.
That
is
a
lot
of
door
taking
and
it's
a
lot
of
door.
Knocking
and
I
got
to
give
my
staff
a
lot
of
credit
for
that
I'm.
Just
a
couple
of
the
statistics
again
from
16
to
17,
we
increase
the
overall
tax
base
by
3.7
billion
dollars.
We
did
door
knock
equalized,
27,000
properties.
C
This
is
the
number
of
engagements
we
had
since
the
valuation
notices
went
out,
so
the
phones
were
quite
active,
but
we
we
did
a
pretty
good
job
of
getting
all
those
questions
answered
and
if
we
couldn't
answer
the
question,
they
were
encouraged
to
go
to
the
local
board
property
tax
relief.
This
was
something
that
councilmember
osami
had
asked
last
year.
What
are
we
doing?
C
As
far
as
getting
information
out,
we
had
amended
our
video,
a
ssin
notice
this
year,
so
that
we
did
include
a
web
link
and
information
for
property,
tax
relief
programs
right
on
their
valuation
notice,
so
everybody
had
at
least
an
opportunity
to
see
the
website
and
have
some
information.
In
addition
to
that,
we
did
three
mailings
this
last
year.
It's
a
very
targeted
area.
We
did
a
separate
mailing
for
of
an
information
card.
I
should
say
too,
that
was
written
in
Somali
was
written
in
Spanish
and
was
written
in
month.
C
We
did
targeted
areas
talking
about
property,
tax
relief
programs,
so
we're
trying
to
get
a
better
feel
for
if
we're
going
to
get
a
better
return
on
phone
calls
and
and
feedback
from
the
community
just
trying
to
be
more
language
specific
in
the
areas
of
remaining,
and
then
we
do
have
a
nervous
caller
this
year,
working
on
more
community
engagement
and
doing
outreach
into
looking
at
language
barriers
is
one
of
the
problems
with
appealing
your
value
or
understanding
the
valuation
notice
so
and
I.
Think
with
that,
that's
the
end
of
my
presentation.
A
D
Thank
You
mr.
chair
mr.
Todd,
if
you
go
back
to
the
slide,
I
mean
looking
at
the
complaints
or
I
guess
a
people
without
by
adds
from
words
and
look
at
Ward
5,
and
you
know
the
numbers
are
pretty
minimal
and
you
know
I
have
to
tell
you
that
I've
been
talking
about
human
community
and
folks
have
been
talking
about
how
they've
been
surprised.
Where
he's
been,
maybe
shocked
by
the
fact
that
their
values
have
I,
don't
know,
I
mean
increase
some
of
them
pretty
significantly,
almost
even
doubling
them.
E
D
Know
I
got
something
the
two
explanations
that
I
can
kind
of
point
to
with
regard
to
that
I
mean
one
you
alluded
to,
which
is
that
market
has
just
increased,
and
so
in
some
ways
I
mean
we're
just
we
should
expect
that
you
know
the
valuations
are
going
up.
The
second
is
this:
this
quintile
slide
that
you
had,
which
is
I
mean.
Let
me
let
me
ask
you
this.
When
we
actually
go
out
and
look
at
properties,
I
mean
typically,
that
causes
may
be
I
mean
an
increase.
Is
that
accurate
design
up.
C
To
the
chair,
councilmember
yang
I
would
not
say
it
necessarily
increases
it
because,
because
it's
the
the
properties
are
being
modeled
based
on
a
computer-aided
mass
appraisal
system,
we're
going
to
have
the
most
accurate
data
when
we've
gone
through
the
property,
but
I
would
not
say
they're
going
to
be
increased
any
faster
or
any
more
than
everybody
else,
because
the
sales
that
are
occurring
and
we
usually
have
around
five
thousand
sales.
Those
sales
are
going
to
really
predict
or
calculate
what
the
value
of
those
particular
properties
are.
C
You
know
what's
going
to
happen,
is
you
know,
because
we're
going
to
going
to
see
a
property
once
every
five
years,
the
condition
can
change
from
average
to
poor.
It
could
change
from
poor
to
very
good
and
oftentimes
if
it's
done
with
all
permits,
that's
when
we're
missing
properties.
That's
when
you
see
those
significant
swings
in
one
year.
How
could
one
property
go
up?
Well,
it's
probably
because
one
way
we're
out
there.
D
So
so,
when
you
actually
see
a
property
I
mean
it
doesn't
necessarily
cause
an
increase
or
a
decrease.
No
okay,
but
you
know,
like
you,
hear
the
stories
that
folks
who
have
a
maybe
a
feeling
that
an
Assessor
is
going
to
show
up
to
their
place.
They
just
don't
answer
the
door
and
stuff
like
that,
meaning
that
happens
too
ahead
right.
Absolutely.
C
I
would
say
that
there's
an
effort
on
my
staff's
part
that
when
they're
walking
by
and
they
door
knock
of
property,
there's
nobody
there
they'll
look
at
the
condition.
They'll
verify
the
information
on
their
property
record
and
if
it
says
average,
but
the
property
looks
like
it's
an
average
cross
or
it's
in
better
condition
because
works
been
done,
they'll
tag
it
and
they'll
make
an
extra
effort
run
to
get
into
it.
C
So
would
there
be
a
higher
relationship,
one
to
one,
a
relationship,
though,
if
I
saw
it
that
the
bay
is
going
to
go
up,
there's
probably
a
statistical
number.
That
would
probably
prove
that.
That's
because
that's
being
tagged
because
we
know
that
there's
a
condition
issue
and
we
need
to
see
it
and
if
we
can't
get
in
it,
then
they
will
make
that
decision
from
the
street
saying
well,
I
couldn't
get
into
it.
C
They
didn't
let
us
into
it
I'm
going
to
change
it
to
an
average
plus
and
then,
if
the
owner
calls
and
says
hey,
my
property
went
up,
and
it's
not
that
nice.
Then
we
get
out
there.
We
take
a
look
at
it.
We
move
it
back
down,
it's
not
punitive
but
they're,
making
the
best
decision
from
the
street,
but
there
is
definitely
an
effort
that,
when
the
value
of
the
building
characteristics
on
the
cart
are
not
right,
that
we
have
to
follow
up
with
over
the
phone
call
and
tagging
a
particular
property.
So.
D
E
You
mr.
chair
just
a
quick
question:
mr.
Todd
on
slide
six,
when
you
have
the
colors,
the
green
and
orange
quintile
neighborhoods,
just
so
that
I
can
explain
to
residents
this
year.
The
green,
the
quintile
neighborhoods
2017
is
that
you're
looking
to
get
to
go
through
that
neighborhood
for
taxes
payable
the
in
2018.
Is
that
correct
group?
So
the
2018
on
here
would
be
for
taxes
payable
in
2019.
E
F
Commerce
I
mean
customer
Palmisano.
Actually
what
this
is
showing
you
is
the
those
in
green
are
the
properties
that
were
inspected
for
the
assessment
year
2017.
So
we
visit
that
visited
those
during
the
summer
of
2016,
and
so
the
next
one
would
be
the
ones
that
were
going
to
visit
this
summer
for
the
next
assessment
year.
Thank
you,
I.
C
A
Have
a
question
one
final
time:
any
other
questions,
no
questions
so
I
make
a
thank
you.
Mr.
Todd
and
I
move
to
accept
the
2017
report
of
the
board
of
Appeal
of
equalization
and
to
adopt
the
resolution
which
concurs
in
the
recommendations
that
has
been
submitted
for
those
appeals
conducted
by
the
board
this
year.
A
All
those
in
favor,
please
say:
aye
aye,
all
those
opposed
say
no,
the
eyes
have
it,
and
the
2017
report
of
the
City
Board
of
Appeals
and
equalization
will
be
submitted
with
a
recommendation
for
approval
to
the
full
City
Council,
which
will
be,
which
will
immediately
follow
the
adjournment
of
this
meeting
before
we
close.
If
you
have
any
further
comments,
mr.
Kaul,
with.
B
B
Also
with
us.
This
was
an
improvement
that
we
worked
out
with
the
assessor's
office,
because
the
clerk
serves
much
like
if
the
Board
of
Appeals
is
a
court
serving
as
a
court
function.
The
city
clerk
is
the
clerk
of
that
Court
and
the
City
Assessor,
then,
is
one
of
the
interested
parties
in
those
proceedings.
B
Todd
indicated
in
outreach
to
communities,
we've
done
more
efforts
to
engage
and
inform,
educate
people
and
Rebecca
has
been
at
the
forefront
those
efforts
and,
of
course,
then
I
would
like
to
thank
mr.
Todd
for
his
partnership.
The
city
of
sensors
office
is
at
the
forefront
of
really
making
sure
that
our
property
owners
are
treated
fairly
treated
correctly
and
helped
to
contribute
to,
of
course,
the
city's
Treasury
which
allows
us
to
provide
services
to
all
of
our
residents.
So
I
would
like
to
recognize
them.
Thank
them.
Thank
You
mr.
chair,
thank.
A
You
very
much
mr.
Kaul,
and
also
to
mr.
Todd
and
your
entire
team
for
the
great
work
that
you've
done.
We
appreciate
the
good
work
of
the
members
of
our
local
board
and
a
lot
of
professional
Assessors
of
our
city
and
how
likely
to
for
that
to
treat
items.
Thank
you
very
much
and
with
that
seeing
no
further
business
before
the
committee,
we
are
adjourned.