Property Value Appeal Deadline Approaching Rapidly

You have until next Monday, June 28, at 5:00 p.m. if you would like to appeal the assessed value placed on your property in Ada County. For more information, and a link to the appeal page, please see http://www.adaweb.net/Commissioners/PropertyTaxExemptionsAppeals/PropertyTaxAssessmentAppeals.aspx

I would encourage you to file an appeal before the deadline if you have any questions about the appropriateness of your assessed value. You can always withdraw your appeal but once 5:00 p.m. passes on Monday, it will be too late.

RSVP RESPECT

On May 13, I had the pleasure of attending the Ada/Elmore RSVP - Retired Senior Volunteer Program - recognition luncheon at the Doubletree Riverside Hotel in Boise. Hundreds of seniors, and many of us more junior admirers, gathered to honor this group of energetic folks who give so much to our community yet ask so little in return.

According to the group's statistics, over the past year 606 volunteers donated over 115,000 hours, or the equivalent of $2.3 million in labor, to 150 different agencies.

In addition to hearing of the numerous hours of volunteer work from the honorees, we had the pleasure of hearing from the 2009 Miss Idaho, Kara Jackson, who not only gave a touching speech but entertained the crowd with her capable viola performance as well.

Thanks to one and all who volunteer their time to make our community a better place to live and raise our families!

Fireworks Facts

The Board of Ada County Commissioners recently passed a fireworks ban for those areas of the county outside of city limits AND outside of unincorporated Ada County. The news media is reporting that the ban affects all of unincorporated Ada County without clarifying that areas within rural fire districts are exempt from the ban.

For more information about the ban, and a link to a map of the county that clarifies the areas in which fireworks are banned, please see http://www.adaweb.net/Administration/Communications/AdaCountyNewsReleases/tabid/1298/vw/1/ItemID/66/Default.aspx .