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Board dismisses Weitzel objection, waives Festival Foods appeal and schedules Hampton Inn hearing
Summary
The Janesville Board of Review dismissed the objection tied to the estate of Norman J. Weitzel for failure to appear and to provide a complete objection form; it approved a mutual waiver for Festival Foods and scheduled a hearing for Hampton Inn on June 24 at 5 p.m.
The Janesville Board of Review dismissed an objection connected to the estate of Norman J. Weitzel after the objector did not appear for the scheduled hearing and the assessor reported material deficiencies in the objection filing.
Assessor staff told the board the filed objection lacked a proper, Department of Revenue–prescribed agent authorization form, did not list a current owner contact method, omitted the parcel number/legal description on the form and did not adequately document the basis for the objector’s opinion of value. The assessor argued that, under the board’s adopted rules and state statutes, the objection form must be complete for the board to conduct a hearing. The board voted 4-0 to dismiss the objection for incompleteness and failure to appear.
Separately, the board approved a mutual waiver to circuit court for NS Retail Holdings LLC (Festival Foods); both parties had agreed to waive Board of Review jurisdiction, and the board approved that waiver by unanimous vote.
The board also considered the case involving Grand Valley Hospitality LLC (Hampton Inn). An authorized representative, Gary Kolenberg, addressed the board and asked for a hearing rather than a waiver, saying his challenge concerned a single numerical item in the assessor’s income calculation and that a 20-minute hearing could resolve it and save legal fees for both sides. Assessor staff said the office’s income model relied on 2022 data and that, in their view, the subpoenaed financial statements would not warrant changing the mass-appraisal baseline outside a revaluation year. Board members voted to move the Hampton Inn appeal to a hearing; the board scheduled that hearing for June 24 at 5 p.m. and set additional continuation dates (including July 10) for remaining commercial matters if needed.
The board instructed the clerk to notify parties of the scheduled hearing dates and to send out the waivers and dismissal notices by certified mail. The motions to dismiss the Weitzel objection and to approve the Festival Foods waiver each passed 4-0.
