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Union County board weighs paying for outside appraisal after wellness facility tax appeal
Summary
Board members discussed a wellness group's request to reduce property taxes and considered hiring an outside industrial appraiser (county-paid or cost-shared with the City of Anna) after the group's appraisal put the property's value far below county assessments.
Union County board members on Thursday discussed whether the county should pay for an outside industrial appraisal after a local wellness group operating a cannabis facility asked to reduce its property-tax assessment.
The chair said the group had claimed the property was worth "$10,000,000" and submitted an appraisal arguing for a substantially lower value. A staff member told the board the county currently lists the facility's EAP value at 7,200,000 (which staff equated in the discussion to $21,600,000 and a facilities total of 41,600,000) while the group's appraiser reported a value of "12.1" (as stated in the record). "They say we've got it over appraised by $9,500,000," the staff member said.
The staff membe…
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