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HALL COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION MEETING APRIL 7, 2026
<br /> 9:05 A.M. Quandt made a motion and Lancaster seconded to go into a Board of
<br /> Equalization meeting.
<br /> ROLL CALL-Present on roll call were Karen Bredthauer, Butch Hurst, Pam Lancaster,
<br /> Ron Peterson, Gary Quandt, Jaane Richardson and Scott Sorensen. Also present were
<br /> County Attorney Marty Klein, and Board Assistant Kim Dugan.
<br /> NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING LAW- Chair Peterson read the notice of open meeting
<br /> law.
<br /> REQUEST TO RESERVE TIME-Chair Peterson called if anyone from the audience had
<br /> a request to reserve time and no one responded.
<br /> VERIFY AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION-The affidavit of publication was received.
<br /> MINUTES- Quandt made a motion and Lancaster seconded to approve the minutes of
<br /> the March 24, 2026, meeting. Bredthauer, Hurst, Quandt, Lancaster, Peterson,
<br /> Richardson and Sorensen all voted yes, and no one voted no. Motion carried.
<br /> PUBLIC PARTICIPATION-Chair Peterson called for public participation-Greg Cramer
<br /> Wood River Mayor I've overseen multiple projects, have promoted growth and
<br /> expansion, voluntary annexations, and expanded new rehab housing, have like 18 new
<br /> houses and 12 rentals we've updated trailer courts, workforce housing grants, we have
<br /> three upper story housing units, multiple rehab housing grants. We've done downtown
<br /> revitalization, new swimming pool and community center, now Stick Creek child
<br /> development, which we reused the old nursing home. We're now doing the new senior
<br /> center, library, and the second half of the old nursing home, which will be done by May
<br /> so we have utilized all that infrastructure. Greg stated to get to his point over the
<br /> summer we were working with a housing developer Starostka housing to utilize eight
<br /> existing lots up in our new subdivision that have been sitting for about six years. We
<br /> ended up working out a tiff deal for the infrastructure which the city had already paid for
<br /> because as a second-class city we can take a ground put in the streets, water, sewer
<br /> electrical and then pass that cost on the lot when it sells which is good for us But during
<br /> that time, we're trying to figure out the tiff financing, and we noticed that the new houses
<br /> in subdivision number five, that it had been built, there are six of them over since 2020,
<br /> 2021, 2022 that their taxes were substantially lower than their neighbors just right
<br /> across the fence. Come to find out that all their annexations since 2016, which would be
<br /> Reader subdivision, Thelen 5th subdivision, Criddle subdivision, Ag services, Heafty
<br /> seeds, Graham is a little house, Babels added on a subdivision west of his building so
<br /> he can expand and put that barn on and get public services, Staples is a couple houses
<br /> and improvements. Well, the biggest ones would be Theel and Subdivision is 17
<br /> parcels, 11 improvements, Reader is three parcels, two improvements. Hefty seeds is
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