Trump sent a message to the Deep State in the finale of the Republican convention…
After Trump’s speech, an opera singer sang “Nessun Dorma.” Nessun Dorma is played at the end of the film “The Sum of All Fears”, at which time, all the Traitors & Deep State Actors were executed.
Nessun Dorma:
None shall sleep! None shall sleep!
Even you, oh Princess, In your cold room, Watch the stars That tremble with love and hope. But my secret is hidden within me; No one will know my name!
No, no, I shall say it on your mouth, When the light shines. And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine! No one will know his name,
And we shall have to, alas, die, die! Disperse, oh night! Vanish, oh stars! At dawn, I shall win! I shall win! I will win!
John Rich tells the truth about scripture and calls out the Church for the confusions of God’s people.
There is a difference between Gods enemy’s and our enemies…
A very powerful interview…
John Rich’s new song and video
County News
Plenty of news this week the Revaluation Fiasco is the largest but also Jacob Ray Madison County Board of Election director getting a DWI and Madison County government officials giving Public Record preferential treatment to one news organization over another.
Chad Nesbit put out the story claiming Ray had been at an illegal gambling facility and arrested crashed his car etc… Hypocritically, Nesbit should know about the illegal joints because he has faced arrest for the same thing. Part of what he published was true and part was not.
Clint Parker of the Weaverville Tribune reached out to the County Manager Rod Honeycutt and sent him the Nesbit posting and asked him this below in an email on July 19th:
Rod,
Wondering if this guy is going to be fired? Looking for a comment on his arrest?
Thx
Honeycutt responded:
Clint,
See below:
Madison County Government does not make statements involving personnel or ongoing investigations. As the County Board of Elections Director, the County will defer all matters involving Mr. Ray to the County and State Election Boards.
Very Respectfully,
Rod
Rod
Under North Carolina law you are required to give the news media limited information on employees and work status is one.
Clint Parker
Senior Contributor/Sales Rep.
Really? Does Matt Wechtel chairman to Madison County commissioners adhere to the Colonel’s laws?
See below
MARSHALL – Madison County Board of Elections Director Jacob Ray was arrested and charged this month with driving while impaired and gambling, according to Madison County Board of Commissioners Chair Matt Wechtel.
“We must be mindful of the fact that Jake has been charged with these misdemeanors and has not yet had his day in court and he is to be considered innocent until he is proven guilty,” Wechtel said.
Wechtel made a statement on behalf of the county commissioners July 18 to Asheville Citizen Times news organization.
Yet County Manager-Honeycutt refused to comment to Clint Parker at the Weaverville Tribune news organization July 19th.
Madison County Board of Elections director Jacob Ray charged with DWI, gambling (newsbreak.com)
Did Wechtel just break ranks with his beloved Colonel?
You can’t make this up. This is so comical if it weren’t so pathetic. These two remind me of SGT Schultz and Colonel Klink.
What did Casey do give Wechtel a Hershey bar bribe for his statement?
Clint needs to send Madison County Government a case of Hershey bars. Maybe he will get his legal Public Record requests next time!
The botched rollout of Madison County’s 2024 assessment will go down in history as one of the biggest debacles in our county’s history.
The buck stops with these five commissioners, their county manager Rod Honeycutt and his administrative staff, which includes Mandy Bradley and others, Diana Arrowood Norton and her assessment staff, and God knows who the appraisers are because Norton refuses to make this information available under public record requests.
Also add Tyler Technologies who lied about inspection of properties and leaving notices per Casey’s article who Madison County Government is failing to provide the Legal public record requests for the contract between Tyler Technologies and Madison County.
Should I send Chocolate to retrieve these records? What have these Einsteins done to us?
I have a property that is gated and heavily surveilled no one from Tyler Technologies came to my property and left a notice. In fact, I contacted Diana Norton months ago and asked her about the appraiser’s visit and asked her to notify me when the appraiser wished to come out. She stated she would, yet she didn’t.
This is called failure to inspect and was one of the many reasons the Attorney General of Missouri and its state auditor sued Tyler Technologies.
Those of you who have seen your land values shoot up need to look at your detailed property card which gives you a breakdown of wooded and cleared land. If you have French Broad Power lines across your property, the county could be doubling this value.
This is just one of the inaccurate computations of this flawed reevaluation.
Yet here comes the colonel -Rod Homer Honeycutt and his Republican commissioners and what do they do?
They hire an out-of-state company to do our reevaluation with all this troubling information about Tyler Technologie’s past reevaluations fully available on the Internet.
We are paying at the moment double what we have paid for reevaluations in the past and have no way of knowing what other contracts are in the future with Tyler Technologies because Madison County is violating public record laws.
Here is a list provided to me by the NC Department of Revenue – IRM’s registered with the NC Department of Revenue for work related to the duties and responsibilities of the ad valorem tax program at the local level.
The attached list complies with the statutory requirement, as set forth in G.S. 105-289(i).
Why did these commissioners Colonel Klink and SGT Schultz choose a firm outside the state with profound problems and lawsuits?
Why did the Madison Government not hire a competent one recommended by NCDOR within NC?
It would have been cheaper for all of us…
I believe it is because this county is hiding how poorly this tax office is operating.
I think they are trying to hide what they have done over the years in this county. To miscues of classifications of property that provide perks to them and their friends to failing to audit the Agricultural Welfare Program. To placing individuals as department heads in these oversight positions who are blatantly unqualified to perform their duties legally or fairly.
Every taxpayer has the right to appeal their increase in their “Notice of Assessed Value.” Every taxpayer also has the right to appeal any other taxpayer’s unfair assessment coming in below market value.
This could include every person on this Agricultural Welfare list below because Norton cannot legally audit these properties.
According to her own admission, she does not know what a legal audit of these properties entails. It is serious and to think that these commissioners will be the oversight of the Board of Equalization. Most counties which are operated professionally do not have commissioners sitting in this capacity. They cannot be independent, which is a requirement under the Machinery Act.
North Carolina General Statute 105-282.1 governs applications for exemption or exclusion. Strict compliance is necessary in order for property to be properly exempted or excluded from taxation.
Madison violating NC Law and the Machinery Act
You can challenge every property above if they fall under a comparable for your property in front of the Board of Equalization.
These landowners’ tax bills went down under this reevaluation. We have over a half a billion in tax deferments not being audited or collected. This means over 2 million in lost revenue. This while these commissioners build government by 3% yearly and fund recreation and transportation in millions of dollars.
WHY? Transportation for whom? For those that want to go shopping in Asheville on our nickel. They take them shopping, among other things, so in essence, Madison doesn’t even get the sales tax revenue in this “Moocher Calamity” pushed by these commissioners and their colonel.
Why is there mass transportation in our county? Remember, the transportation department was started to aid granny to the doctor in a Non-profit grant consuming venture. This Transportation Department has morphed into another freeloader farce that Honeycutt has expanded yearly in one of the highest department expenditures.
You only have to pay around $2.00 round trip for a ride on the “Spongers Express.”
I am going over this entire department very soon. Guess who your Republican Commissioners placed on this board? Why none other than Brad Guth – (pronounced Goof).
If Madison County had the revenue off of this overspending and failure to follow the law to audit the Farm forestry program, we could hire a competent Tax administrator. We could pay a working wage to appraisers. We could hire a qualified County Manager and staff.
What we have is a monumental scheme to place as many voters as possible in the county roles to get these commissioners elected.
Sound familiar, Sgt Schultz has been doing this his whole pathetic life in politics.
For the record, Diana Norton is not a licensed appraiser for the NC Revenue Department. She has taken four certification courses. Diana Norton is the one classifying these properties and coding them into the Tax appraisal software of Madison County?
Do you trust this unprofessional proven liar to help you appeal your overvalued tax assessments?
Look at how a professional county runs its tax department notice they get their assessments out in January and February. Not in July and right before a holiday to hide these from the taxpayers, so they go unnoticed and run out the clock of thirty days.
Norton, these commissioners and the colonel ensured that many of you did not receive these notices until Monday, July 10, thirteen days after the effective date countdown began.
Below in this link, there is a lot of information which can help you with your appeal.
Henderson County NC Tax Office
Notice the professionalism and the tools they offer the knowledge and skill set. They have software online to assist their taxpayers in finding comps for their properties in an assessment.
They don’t hire out-of-state companies because, folks, frankly, these companies are too expensive and cause a lot of problems for the taxpayers.
Madison County could have and should have hired NC appraisers to do the 2024 Reevaluation and by the way, my sources are telling me that someone in Madison Government threatened Keith Ray- Appraiser for Madison and school board member. Who was it that warned Ray that his values were too low, and he better get these appraisal values up?
Whoever did this should be investigated and at a minimum FIRED.
Understand you have till July 28 to get these appeals filed. Information below is to help you file your appeal. No one is going to save you from this. It’s important to take initiative since these commissioners and county employees have let you down!
The Madison County NC Commissioners have called a special untelevised meeting for tomorrow night to talk about the Revaluation.
What is there to talk about? They blew it and now they are full CYA.
Don’t fall for it because it is nothing but their normal gas lighting…
The North Carolina Rules of Evidence are very clear. Non-expert opinions other than that of the property owner do not carry any weight.
If you think the county’s valuation is wrong, the burden of proof is upon you to prove it.
You must provide something more substantial than your opinion. The law assumes the county assessment is correct. It is up to you to prove “by great weight of evidence” that it is not.
There are copious amounts of weighted evidence permeating to the top of this pond covered in scum. Diana Norton and Madison County Tax department is not applying the rules which governs Revaluations and tax assessments.
The “greater weight of the evidence” test requires only that the taxpayer bring forward clear, relevant, and persuasive evidence sufficient to persuade an impartial and fair-minded board that it is more likely that the facts are as the taxpayer says they are. This is a less rigorous burden of proof than the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ test used in criminal cases.
- Therefore, in all appeals before the county Board of Equalization and Review it is incumbent on the appealing taxpayer to persuade the board, by the greater weight of the evidence, that the county assessor’s decision was unlawful or incorrect. Furthermore, the
taxpayer must show that the value placed on the property by the assessor is substantially greater than true value. This implies that the taxpayer must produce persuasive evidence tending to show what the true value of the property actually is- Joseph S. Ferrell, formerly of the NC School of Government
Some advice about presenting evidence for your Appeal:
The UNC School of Government has given some guidance to help appellants. This guidance does not guarantee the outcome of the Board’s decision, but is intended to demonstrate what kind of evidence supports the “Greater weight of evidence” standard for a decision:
a. Sales information of comparable properties. Comparable sales prior to the assessment date (1 January) are the gold standard of evidence. The challenge is to find which properties are truly comparable and how to account to any differences in the valuation.
The Henderson County tax office offers a program on its web page to help you see comparable properties. Go to the page called on-line tools and click “Spatialist”. Enter your address and follow the tabs to get the information you need. https://property.spatialest.com/nc/henderson#/
Madison County NC Tax office doesn’t provide Comps remember the Diana Norton recorded conversation. This county is too busy spending money on recreation and transportation…
b. Listing information of comparable properties. This is lesser evidence but can be submitted to support Comparable Sales evidence. Local real estate company websites typically have an updated posting of listed properties.
c. Assessment data of comparable properties. Again, this is lesser evidence but can be useful to use with Comparable Sales evidence. Go to on-line tools and click the link for “Go Maps”. There is a wealth of information in the Go Maps (known generally as the GIS Map system). It takes some exploring to find things but it’s worthwhile to use. https://www.hendersoncountync.gov/gis/page/welcome-gomaps-henderson-coun…
Madison County has properties on its GIS which are empty and have missing tax bills and values.
d. An independent fee appraisal, with an effective date of value as of 1 January of the reappraisal year. This is a very powerful piece of evidence, but it costs hundreds or possibly even thousands of dollars to have done. Also, while not required, it can be helpful if the appraiser is present to explain or defend his/her appraisal. This may be the strongest of all evidence but may not make economic sense. Using older appraisals, like from a mortgage application, do not carry the same weight because of changing market conditions and may be considered irrelevant by the Board.
e. Photography depicting a condition affecting the value of the property. This can be very valuable, and it helps if the photos can be dated to prove how recent they are.
f. Any fact-based document that can be relied upon to demonstrate the difference between the taxpayer’s claim of value and the countys. Examples would be a fire marshal’s report, an insurance company’s report, income tax returns, lease agreements, etc. See the appeals rules 4 and 5 above. A licensed professional like an appraiser or a civil engineer can submit documents with their certification stamp. All others, including real estate agents, need to be present to provide testimony that can be cross-examined for their documents to carry weight.
g. A note about “comparable sales”. Investopedia describes comparable sales as; “Comparable sales, often referred to as “comps,” are properties that have recently sold and are similar to the subject property in terms of relevant characteristics such as location, size, style, age, condition, and amenities.” Great care needs to be taken when selecting “comps”. Unless one is working with a new development with identical homes, it is rare to find exact same properties to make comparisons.
Different markets have big influences on value as well. There is a big difference between “price” of a home and “value” of a home. For example, if 4 homes are built identically and sold originally for $350,000, then 3 years later, one home sells for $390,000 but another sells for $375,000 and the other two never change hands, the value of the homes (so long as they are physically identical) is still equal, even if the price of the last sales are different.
The next appraisal will consider that along with the overall behavior of the market in that area along with the relative condition of the homes. Also, identifying sales as “arms-length transactions” is important. If a home is sold under a distressed situation like a foreclosure, or if a sale is between two close relatives, or as a group purchase (e.g., If one vacant lot goes for $10,000, but if someone buys six lots and get a discount of $5,000 for a total of $55,000), then they are disregarded as “comps”. Please know that all these factors are considered in your property assessment.
This list is not all-inclusive, and each appeal is different. The NC Department of Revenue has a document on their website called “Appeals Handbook” and provides guidance for citizens and counties. See Below:
Don’t let the Madison County government treat you unfairly. These commissioners should NOT be on the Board of Equalization they have shown through this process and other processes involving their authority the inability to be fair and Independant.
Remember how they illegally implemented the Ridge Ordinance…
You have Taxpayer Rights in this state and the NCDOR takes those rights of its citizens very serious. We have significant flaws and very possible malfeasance which occurred in this Reevaluation.
You can appeal this assessment on the value of your property, but you cannot appeal your tax bill. You can email your appeal directly to Diana Norton at this email address: dsnorton@madisoncountync.gov
The MC Tax office form online is pathetic and flawed and has been down on occasions since these assessments went out. You cannot add pictures, comps etc. Make sure you keep a copy of everything you send and the DATE you sent it. Fill out the online form and email or mail this with your applications of your pins.
They cannot deny your ability to email your tax assessment appeal electronically. If they do, this will be part of the allegations filed of their actions in a potential class lawsuit against Madison County.
Don’t let them bully you or try to intimidate you. You have rights and they cannot deny you your rights because they failed too properly rollout this 2024 Reevaluation- CH