A big question McCune should now answer
I know I certainly appreciate the newspaper offering their readers information on the countywide property reassessment by local lawyer James McCune. But considering his first article of three has already given us, in my opinion, distorted facts, I am unsure exactly how much help he will be with future articles.
Case No. C-63-CV-200800607 in Washington County’s Court of Common Pleas gives exact details concerning the countywide reassessment in Washington County. On Nov. 25, 2008, an order was filed in court concerning the countywide reassessment, and the county’s school districts and county commissioners were all in agreement that a countywide reassessment would be carried out.
Shortly thereafter, Dec. 9, 2008, another order was made by Washington County Court Judge Debbie O’Dell Seneca. O’Dell Seneca gave the county commissioners until Dec. 18, 2008, to appear in court to show her why their initial agreement to do a countywide reassessment Nov. 25, 2008, should be null and void. Then, Dec. 17, 2008, the county commissioners presented to the judge an affidavit signed the day before where each commissioner legally agreed to do a countywide reassessment.
Since all parties involved were in agreement on doing a countywide reassessment, the judge ordered their original agreement of Nov. 25, 2008 to remain legally in full force.
Maybe McCune can explain to us in his next article just why was there a lengthy court battle that was costly to county taxpayers over a countywide reassessment that the Washington School District, the McGuffey School District and the commissioners agreed to do back in 2008.
Rebecca L. Simpson
Washington