2009 Street Improvement

Bid Opening April 14, 2009 - 10:00 a.m.
Apparent Low Bidder to Apparent High Bidder

Rum River Contracting $1,237,968.09
Forest Lake Contracting $1,337,737.25
Knife River Corporation $1,358,740.30
Dresel Contracting, Inc. $1,368,097.75
Tower Asphalt, Inc. $1,404,004.00
T.A. Schifsky & Sons, Inc. $1,579,013.99

The new bid amounts are apparently much lower than expected. Will the savings (approximately $300,000) be passed on to our assessed residents?

Centerville Property Values Drop 10.3 Percent Over Year

Taxes are payable in 2010
by Loretta Harding
4/14/2009
CENTERVILLE — The Centerville City Council heard appeals to the payable 2010 property tax assessments prior to the April 8 meeting at City Hall.

As required by state law, at least three council members became board certified to address property owners who take issue with valuation and classification of their property at the annual Board of Assessment Appeal and Equalization Hearing. City Assessor Ken Tolzmann attended the meeting to answer questions, and Diana Stellmach represented Anoka County, as required by state law.

Assessors in Minnesota use real estate sales in a given community between October of 2007 and September of 2008 to determine current market value of homesteaded residential property. Qualified sales for purposes of market valuation don't include bank sales, foreclosures or sales to relatives.
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