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Waukesha Board of Review approves waivers, schedules additional hearing days
Summary
At its June 17, 2025 meeting the Waukesha City Board of Review approved waiver requests that will move multiple tax assessment disputes directly to circuit court, approved minutes from the prior meeting and set three additional hearing dates in July.
The Waukesha City Board of Review approved procedural items and several taxpayer requests to waive local hearings and move cases directly to circuit court during its June 17 meeting.
Board members approved the minutes from the board's June 6 meeting by voice vote. The board then addressed scheduling for additional hearing days: members agreed to hold additional sessions on July 11, July 22 and July 29 to continue an extended review docket.
On waivers, the board granted a request from Walmart Real Estate Business Trust to waive local review for tax years 2019'2024 and move the matter directly to the circuit court. The board also approved a group of waiver requests from SBV Fox River LLC covering multiple parcel/PC numbers on West Sunset Drive. The board's actions were procedural: the waivers move those contested assessments out of the board's hearing schedule and into court.
Clerk Sarah Roth, who joined the meeting after the waivers were taken up, confirmed she would follow up on scheduling logistics and on next steps for matters already waived into circuit court. The board noted a previously-filed request to testify by telephone in the Walmart matter is now moot because the board approved the waiver.
What matters next: the board's July hearing days are intended to finish an extended queue of assessment objections. Parties with waived cases will proceed in circuit court rather than before the Board of Review.
Votes and formal actions taken at the June 17 session are recorded in the Board's minutes and include the minutes approval, the scheduling decisions and the waivers described above.
