NAME
Address
City ST
Zip
Date
To: First Last [Name], County Commissioner/Supervisor
First
Last [Name], County Commissioner/Supervisor
First
Last [Name], County Commissioner/Supervisor
[Name]
County Courthouse
Street
Address
City
ST Zip
Re: Board of Appeal(s)/Equalization/Review
members
This is demand for copies
of all applications to [Name]
County Commissioners/Supervisors
submitted by all current members of the Board of Appeal(s)/Equalization/Review
in/for [Name] County and all
attachments and/or exhibits to all such applications, with specific reference
to the full names, backgrounds and qualifications of all such members. Do not redact or delete this specific
information.
Board of Appeal(s)/Equalization/Review members are political
appointees, not civil service employees; and are not exempt from the [Name]
State public records disclosure act. Not to furnish this information is a
violation of the [Name] State
public records disclosure act and a civil rights violation.
This demand to furnish is upon you and each of you and any and all
custodians in possession of these records and documents.
POINTS AND AUTHORITIES
The following is for
Washington State.
Research your state’s public records disclosure act.
RCW
42.56.550 (4) Any person who prevails against an agency in
any action in the courts seeking the right to inspect or copy any public record
or the right to receive a response to a public record request within a
reasonable amount of time shall be awarded all costs, including reasonable
attorney fees, incurred in connection with such legal action. In addition, it
shall be within the discretion of the court to award such person an amount not
less than five dollars and not to exceed one hundred dollars for each day that
he or she was denied the right to inspect or copy said public record.
Sincerely,
Name
NAME
Address
City ST
Zip
Date
To: First Last [Name], County Assessor
[Name]
County Courthouse
Street
Address
City
ST Zip
This
is demand for:
copies of assessed valuation comparisons used for
determining most recent assessed valuation for parcel number 999.99.
date of determination of most recent assessed
valuation for parcel number 999.99.
name(s) of individual(s) that determined most recent
assessed valuation for parcel number 999.99.
This is demand that the individual(s) that
determined most recent assessed valuation for parcel number 999.99 appear as
witness(es) at Board of Appeal(s)/Equalization/Review hearing scheduled for 9:00
AM on date.
You have stated: “The assessed value for this parcel
is statistically updated annually using computer aided mass appraisal
software.”
The assesssed value of this property, parcel number
999.99, has doubled in 5 years. That is
an average increase per year of 16%.
This is demand that you personally appear as a
witness at Board of Appeal(s)/Equalization/Review hearing scheduled for 9:00 AM
on date in order to explain this irrational assessed valuation.
Sincerely,
Name
popular information,
or the means
of acquiring it,
is but a prologue
to a farce
or a tragedy;
or, perhaps both.