In 2007, the Town of Evans announced a town-wide reassessment. Given the town’s penchant for taking care of family & friends, I began to wonder if there was a way to determine winners and losers. I concluded the best way to do this was to compare the 2007 assessments to the new 2008 assessments. To do this required a little custom programming and the assessment data for both years in Microsoft Excel format. I obtained the data for 2007 & 2008 and every year through 2019.
View 2007 – 2008 assessment data. → Click Here!
In 2020 through 2022, my Freedom of Information for the assessment data was denied. Mary Hosler, the town’s FOIL appeal officer, did not respond and/or denied my appeal.
My only option to get the data was to have a lawyer file an Article 78.
YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GET A LAWYER TO “ENCOURAGE” EVANS OFFICIALS TO HONOR THEIR OATH OF OFFICE AND FOLLOW THE LAW.
The Judge ruled in the town’s favor. Using the town’s under-oath explanation for the denial, my lawyer rewrote the FOIL request and the 2022 assessment data was provided in Microsoft Excel Format on 3-22-2023. I lost the battle but won the war!
Click Here! To View The 2022 Town of Evans Assessment Data.
TIP: Click on the gear (Top Right) to view the advanced search.
Also available are recent property sales. → Click Here!
While the Town of Evans provides assessment data in PDF format, it is not convenient if you want to challenge your assessment.
Last but not least: On the same day I received the 2022 assessment data from the Town Clerk, I also received a denial letter from Deputy Supervisor Tom George!
Just who is running town hall?
Leadership
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
DANGEROUS DECISIONS
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
THE GOAL OF MARXISM
Marxism is not about free speech and debate, it is about domination, repression, indoctrination, conformity, and compliance.
GOVERNMENT’S VOICE
Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people’s voice.
POLITICAL POWER
Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.
GOOD INTENTIONS
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
HONESTY vs HYPOCRISY
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
THE TRUTH
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
When to talk at Hamburg public meetings: Town supervisor capitulates: Click-Here
Censorship in North Korea – Wikipedia: Click-Here
