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So how does inventing a higher property value, out of thin air, which allows the city and county to net more tax revenue, without raising the mill, not get viewed as leaning hard on taxpayers?
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It is absurd to suggest that this is a project that is designed to preserve protection, when in fact, it is designed to flood lands currently flood free, and build in the floodplain.
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One must ask why the dam is being proposed at all – if not to stage water and create impacts where none existed before?
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Oxbow Country Club says $10.49 million isn’t enough and they want another $2.43 million.
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Revenue projections are only part of the financing dilemma forcing the assessment issue. Spending on the stalled project is hemorrhaging at a higher rate than tax collections.
Continue ReadingWake up and smell the coffee. Moorhead has awesome flood protection for less than what the FMDA has pumped into Oxbow, ND boondoggle and the member only Country Club.
Continue ReadingThe most indelible point is that the FMDA arbitrarily and capriciously wrote their press release without reaching a group consensus from all stakeholder parties at the table ~ as to what “Plan B” should be.
Continue ReadingBreaking News: Diversion Authority to submit permit application without considering JPA proposal or the final comparisons of all alternatives prepared by the DNR and the Technical Advisory Committee.
Continue ReadingWith these properties for comparison, it appears that the new clubhouse is seriously undervalued for taxation purposes and most likely cost more to construct than the 2017 taxable valuation of the entire country club.
Continue ReadingThe Governors Task Force was intended to explore potential alternatives and compromise rather than Fargo’s attempt to re-litigate the project that received a Prelimary Injunction.
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