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Town board approves $3,627.91 in tax refunds after tower assessment error
Summary
The Town of Townsend approved Resolution 06-2026 to refund $1,756.12 for 2024 and $1,871.79 for 2025 to Jeffrey and Vicky Radish after a communications tower was found to have been assessed incorrectly; the board cited Wis. Stat. 74.33.
The Town of Townsend board approved Resolution 06-2026 to refund tax overpayments totaling $3,627.91 to Jeffrey and Vicky Radish after a communications tower on their property was assessed inconsistently with state changes to personal property assessment.
Town records show the tower, built in 2019, had been assessed as personal property through 2024. Under Act 12 the state eliminated personal property assessments and the tower’s value should have been included only in the real estate assessment. Because the assessor was not notified by the State, the tower’s value remained on the real estate assessment for 2024 and 2025; the board characterized this as a palpable error under Wis. Stat. 74.33 and approved refunds of $1,756.12 for 2024 and $1,871.79 for 2025.
Supervisor Chuck DeMoulin moved to approve Resolution 06-2026; Supervisor Willie Evans seconded and the motion carried. The minutes do not record any recorded roll-call of individual board member votes beyond the motion being recorded as M/A in the meeting notes.
The minutes note the legal basis cited in the motion as Wis. Stat. 74.33 (palpable error) and reference Act 12 as the change in state treatment of personal property assessments. The transcript and minutes do not provide further detail on reassessment processes or whether similar properties will be reviewed.
