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Advice to avoid
frustration
Re: Assessment Review Board
Procedures
We are presently having a
frustrating time dealing with an
appeal to the Divisional Court from a
decision given by the Assessment
Review Board regarding our
property. It is, and has been, an
expensive learning experience and I
would like readers to be able to avoid
the mistakes we have made. This
applies particularly to anyone in the
Walkerton area who is considering
appealing their assessment for
environmental reasons.
The Assessment Review Board
operates much like any other court.
There is the hearing officer(s) and a
lady who does I don't know what.
Both parties to the hearing are sworn,
as are any witnesses.
We have been to a total of six
ARB hearings since 1991, successful
to some degree in all of them, and it •
had always been my assumption that
the lady was recording the
proceedings for a transcript at a
possible appeal. This is not the case.
There is NO recording of
proceedings by the Board.
In our case, the Municipal
Assessment Corporation, now a
crown corporation is appealing our
Decision.
When we presented our case we
produced written, pictorial and video
evidence and there was also cross-
examination which illuminated some
extremely important points. At the
end of the proceedings I offered the
two members of the Board the video
which had just been shown. For
reasons unknown to me, they did not
make the video an exhibit.
We now have to fight our case
before Division Court without a
transcript and possibly without the