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,~ Blair Pollock said that a lot of the work done over the last several years has been incremental and technical. He said that this is a correct interpretation of the plan. There will probably be more issues in the next submittal in 2012. Commissioner Jacobs thanked Bonnie Hauser for her analysis on this issue and he sees this plan that not only is the plan two years late, but that it is basically a group of guidelines. He said that the State does not take solid waste seriously enough. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to pages 13-14 with bullet points and said that the styles with which they are written are different, and this needs to be homogenized. He said that he would like to see an update on getting the schools on board with having their organic waste collected fairly soon. Commissioner Jacobs said that this update needs to come back to the Board no later than the joint County Commissioners' and school boards meeting. A motion was made by Commissioner Yuhasz, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs to adopt the attached resolution approving the Three-Year Update of the Solid Waste Management Plan and authorize its submittal to the State. VOTE: UNANIMOUS d. Decision Regarding Upcoming Revaluation The Board considered the proposed County's revaluation Schedule - to discuss as needed and/or provide comments to staff and to choose one of these options: a) delay the upcoming revaluation for at least one year, possibly two years, to allow the opportunity for the real estate market and the economy to recover more fully before pursuing revaluation; or b) direct staff to move forward with the planned revaluation and to take the necessary budgetary steps to begin the revaluation process including the hiring of personnel and other actions to accomplish the revaluation. Tax Administrator Jo Roberson said that at the November 9th budget work session the Board of County Commissioners received a report on current market trends and other relative data for consideration of the revaluation timeframe. As part of that discussion, the Board asked the staff bring this item back for final decision. There are several options in the recommendations. PUBLIC COMMENT: Joe Phelps congratulated Commissioner McKee, Commissioner Jacobs, and Commissioner Gordon. He said that he has had his real estate license for 24 years and he thinks it would be good to do another revaluation as scheduled. He said that if the County does not change the way it does the process, then it will get the same result, an unfair and incorrect revaluation. He said that in the future he does not see a problem with going with a six-year revaluation. He said that he saw where Jo Roberson stated in a meeting a few weeks ago that the property values in Orange County had not gone down since the last assessment. He disagreed with this. He thinks that this is only an average. He said that some properties are selling for as little as 20% of their tax value. There are also many properties are selling much higher than the tax value. That does not make this process correct. He urged the County Commissioners to do some research and come to a decision on making most, if not all of the tax values, a correct real value. He could provide some data for this, if needed. Frank Clifton said that the staff recommendation to delay this revaluation for one year is because there will be a new Tax Administrator and new software. It would be better for the new Tax Administrator to have a year's worth of experience before going through a revaluation. 20