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Commissioners accept State decision on Dufner 2025 abatement and waive appeal deadline for related 2026 classification
Summary
The board accepted the State's decision as final on the Dufner family's 2025 abatement request and waived statutory appeal deadlines so the Dufners may file to District Court within 30 days if the State denies their 2026 classification appeal.
Tax Director Kayla Knudson presented a 2025 abatement request from the Dufner family that the township had denied on June 12, 2026; Knudson said the State Attorney General would not issue an opinion on the matter. Joe Dufner asked the board to waive statutory deadlines so the family could preserve the right to appeal the 2025 abatement if the State Board of Equalization denied their 2026 tax classification appeal.
The board took two recorded motions: it accepted the State's decision as the county's final decision for the 2025 abatement requests, and separately voted to waive appeal deadlines for the Dufners' 2025 abatement request so they would have 30 days from any State decision on the 2026 classification to file an appeal in District Court; the minutes state the court's decision would apply to both 2025 and 2026 taxes for the parcel.
