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Louise in the past on different things. So | think you are coming a long way and hopefully you'll give us an
update in six months or something like that. That way we have some transparency in that you are moving
forward, but | was very pleased with your presentation. Please do not use that blue paper ever again, | was
going blind. Thank you.
Alderman Jette
At the risk of being the lone dissident voice here, | do think you are heading in the right direction. But! don’t
know any of you personally, so this is nothing personal, but | represent a Ward and people who have concerns. |
think you understand that it is so important that our tax payers feel that they are being treated fairly in comparison
to everybody else in town; that they are not being discriminated against one way or the other. Or that somebody
is getting a deal that they are not getting. So we have to be very transparent in this whole process and we have
to make sure that whatever questions people have, that they are answered.
A lot of | guess allegations is the safest way to put it at this point have been made about mistakes that have been
made in the Assessing office. My constituents have pointed out some, some were made by KRT. But egregious
errors that hopefully are being corrected; but whatever the situation is, it is not something that happened
yesterday it has happened over a period of time. | think elimination of the Chief Assessor's position is not going
to, by itself, cure any of these problems that you have there. Meaning no disrespect but you people have been
working there while all of this happened. So my concern | think that you are heading in the right direction; my
concern is that you Ms. Kleiner, of your own admission, you are not an assessing, you have no background in
assessing, you are walking into this thing new.
You are adding some management, but I’m concerned you know we had a Chief Assessor and these problems
occurred and now we have no Chief Assessor, so we have nobody supervising the Assessors except a non-
assessor, someone who is not, you are doing your best, but you are not familiar with the whole skill or art or
science of assessing. | am wondering whether or not you feel with all the other duties you are going to have as
Administrative Services Director, whether or not we are not asking too much of you? Whether or not there
should be someone with an Assessing background that should be there to supervise the Assessing department.
And | hope as you go on, if you discover that that’s the case, that we can depend on you being forthright enough
to say “Yeah we need some help here, we need some expertise that we don’t have right now and we should
add”.
President Wilshire
Did you want to respond to that Ms Kleiner?
Ms. Kleiner
| would and thank you. | mean | truly understand your concern. Here’s where | would like to disagree just
respectfully a little. You had a knowledgeable Assessor, what lacked within the Department was some clear
management. That was shown clearly in the Management Audit.
Alderman Jette
I’m sorry | didn’t hear you.
