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Schuppan noted that the county had to pay taxes on our vacant lots. Pelland stated that if the construction is started before July 1st they can come in and apply again. Arnold made a motion and Schuppan seconded to deny the applications from Habitat from Humanity on the 4 listed applications and to send them a letter informing them that if construction is started before July 1st they can apply for an exemption again. Arnold, Bredthauer, Lancaster, Lanfear, Richardson and Schuppan all voted yes and Quandt voted no. Motion carried. 4. COUNTY ASSESSOR TAX CORRECTION NOTICES — Ms. Pelland requested a motion from the county board to receive and authorize the chair to initial tax correction notices #5179 to #5185 noting that #5183 was not printed in the book. Quandt made a motion and Arnold seconded to authorize the chair to sign tax correction notices #5179 to #5185 except for#5183. Arnold, Bredthauer, Lancaster, Lanfear, Quandt, Richardson and Schuppan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. Quandt asked Ms. Pelland if she had any information on valuations. Jan stated that she is working with her liaison from property tax and there was an assessors meeting last week and the main topic was ag land. When you look at the 3 years 2 of the 3 are the same they are seeing the valuations are declining on some of the use categories. She did not have enough sales on dry or grass land but on irrigated ground there were 51 out of 62 that were irrigated and they are at 74.94% that is over the allowable range so at this point she plans to lower some ag irrigated land values. That would be the best fix for this year. She also noted LB 338 that is proposing to use the income approach for ag land valuations She stated that the residential continues to grow and at 88% she is 4 points below. There were 1,825 sales in Grand Island and over 1500 in the rural subs. She may also have to address the rural home sites. They are at 82% and that is 10 points under the minimum. She noted one sale that was at $200,000.00 on a small home and out buildings. She stated that they are going through listings, Zillow and local broker listings and checking what they say about the houses. They are finding a lot that have finished basements so they are adding that additional value so that should help the 88% sales ratio. Stacey questioned if the overall county valuation for ag land is 1/3 of the total valuation but the residential will increase. There is a lot of new construction but if some of it is TIF then only the base value is in the tax base. Pelland stated that she did redo down town and set it aside as its own market area and they are reviewing it. She stated that overall she was in the range for commercial but there may be some pockets that she may need to make some occupancy code 3