GLA Falsely Identifies Owners of Debt Ridden Parcels
Aug 9, 2016 16:30:18 GMT -7
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Post by Admin on Aug 9, 2016 16:30:18 GMT -7
GLA Falsely Identifies Owners of Debt Ridden Parcels
Attempts to erase $40,000.00 CUT owes to Glastonbury Landowners
Attempts to erase $40,000.00 CUT owes to Glastonbury Landowners
Administrator's Note: Debbie Blais wrote an informative open letter to the GLA Board regarding the ownership history and past due amounts owed on North Glastonbury parcels 39 and 65. She released it via the GLFPC and we are copying it here for the public record. Her letter is directed to Director Gerald Dubiel.
Church Universal and Triumphant owes over $40,000.00 in past due assessments to the GLA on these two parcels. That would buy us over 100 double truckloads of gravel which could assist in repairing our worn out roads. Instead of doing what is in the best interest of landowners, several Board members are trying to reduce and even eliminate what CUT owes to our community. For unknown reasons the GLA Board has falsified the landowner records in their database by listing the lessees and NOT the actual owner. The Park County tax database shows that CUT owns the land, is responsible for the property taxes and has been paying them regularly. Why CUT has not paid GLA assessments for almost 20 years and why some members of the GLA Board wish to erase the substantial CUT debt remains a mystery.
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The letter by Debbie Blais follows:
Dear GLA Board,
This is to answer Gerald’s question during the Aug 8 GLA Board Meeting about the $40,000.00+ owed by CUT church in GLA past due assessments. Landowners were muted so, I couldn’t speak til end of the meeting at 10:30 pm – and by then Gerald had departed from the meeting.
Gerald, regarding these 2 parcels, NG 39 and NG 65:
· In February 2016 GLA Finance Committee Meeting, Dan Kehoe let it be known that these 2 properties were “being taken back by the church” – that was 6 months ago.
· In Rudy Parker’s 2015 Past Due Assessment Report (a spreadsheet) distributed in January 2016, the amounts owed by these 2 parcels were (screenshots from Rudy’s spreadsheet, below). These figures are 7+ months old and should be bigger now – unless they’ve been paying their 2016 assessments?
§ Line 17 NG 65 William Davis owed $22,039.41
§ Line 30 NG 39 William Holder owed $18,752.88
· Dan lobbied to get all their interest and penalties to be forgiven! And removed from their debt, because the “church was taking back these 2 parcels”. He argued that the CUT church hadn’t been ‘responsible’ for these 2 parcels until now.
· However, you will see from the 2 screenshots below off MT Cadastral, that both of these have their “Primary Owner” as the CUT church – and the CUT church is responsible to Park County to pay the property assessments on them, just as they are responsible to pay their GLA Assessments.
· So, even though the GLA chose to put “Leasee’s” names down for these 2 parcels in their own books, the MT Cadastral shows these 2 parcels are owned by the CUT church. It doesn’t matter what kind of agreement CUT had with their leasee’s; the owner is still responsible for property taxes and assessments.
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