Charlotte County TRIM notice a bad joke

Posted by Mark Chapman on August 27th, 2010 at 10:20 am

To Mr. Robert Skid­more and Commissioners,

In my opin­ion, and I am sure many oth­ers who received their TRIM notices, the county has per­pet­u­ated a really bad joke in the form of the TRIM notices. Not only has the county admin­is­tra­tion increased the assessed value of my prop­erty, blam­ing the state of course, but really have added insult to injury by increas­ing the tax rate for every sin­gle cat­e­gory of tax­ing unit. This hap­pens to be the third straight year of increases for this household.

Not only is the school board out of con­trol, I sug­gest the county admin­is­tra­tion is like­wise out of con­trol. And if I remem­ber cor­rectly, each one of the com­mis­sion­ers (except maybe one) promised to reduce the cost of county gov­ern­ment and there­fore TAXES.

I have scanned both the school board’s bud­get and the county’s orga­ni­za­tional charts and bud­gets. In my opin­ion there are many areas where staffs can be stream­lined and cost of oper­a­tion and projects (many of which are prob­a­bly not needed) can be reduced. I am sorry but I see waste and inef­fi­ciency every day.

Please allow me to point out some really sad facts of life today in case you have not seen the news lately: Home sales are the low­est in 15 years; inven­tory is over 12 months old.

Home fore­clo­sures are at their high­est lev­els in history.

Home prices, thus value, have fallen in most cases 35 to 50 per­cent. Yet our assessed val­ues have increased?

Unem­ploy­ment con­tin­ues to rise to about 10 per­cent prob­a­bly higher than 16 per­cent in Char­lotte County Peo­ple like my self are los­ing their retire­ment invest­ments (includ­ing home­steads) at unprece­dented levels.

Yes the per­pet­u­a­tion of a bad joke, the TRIM notice and what is to follow!

William T. Bevington

Engle­wood

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One response to “Charlotte County TRIM notice a bad joke”

1. Andy

   9 / 6 / 2010
   6:25 am

   Mr. Bev­ing­ton,
   In check­ing the three prop­er­ties that you own, it looks as if two of the three went down sig­nif­i­cantly in assessed value and the (home­steaded) one that went up is prob­a­bly assessed at less than resale value due to the 3% cap on it’s valuation.

   Unfor­tu­nately, we are all pay­ing for uncon­trolled spend­ing, but not many were com­plain­ing when prices were going up and we were pro­tected by the 3% cap on valuation.

   Andy Leonard

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