“They broke the law. They refuse to admit it,” he said. “But breaking the law, violating the Department of Revenue requirements and violating the Constitution are serious offenses.”
City Assessor Michelle Drea defended the city’s practices.
“We respectfully disagree with this decision,” she said. “We believe it is a flawed decision based on a narrow set of skewed data which does not reflect a districtwide uniformity problem.”
The state’s uniformity clause requires that “all property within a class must be taxed on a basis of equality as far as practicable.”