Why did residents receive a notice regarding the assessment on their agricultural land if this category is not going to be assessed?
The fire assessment study proposed assessments against all categories of property, including single-family, commercial, industrial, institutional, and land (vacant/agricultural). The Board of County Commissioners set the tentative rates for those categories on August 3, 2009, and notice was provided to all property owners, as required by law. The exemption for agricultural land and parcels of vacant land less than .5 acres in size was not approved by the Board until the September 8 public hearing, after the notices were sent.
