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Search results for "special assessments" ...
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You Can Fight City Hall
The City of Tamarac passed a resolution assessing 14 property owners a total of $9 million dollars, due a month from the first notice. This assessment money would fund the infrastructure on the city's Main Street project, something the whole community would use. Many of the property owners could not pay the money and suspected it was a way for the city to seize their properties. This story details an investigation of the assessment and profiles of the property owners.
Tags: property owners; special assessments; infrastructure; lawsuits; bill
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Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Ledger nails down the real problem with poor funding for education in Kentucky--intentionally under-assessed property; using computer property transfer records, the reporters uncover who pays, how much the state loses, and to whom assessors give special treatment, including the superintendent of one school district; 12 stories, Nov. 12 - Dec. 15, 1989.
Tags: KY Wagar IRE Award