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<br />MS. CRAWFORD: Yes, I would say that our feeling is that this is—this is a relatively small <br />part--in terms of the weight of any assessment, this is a small part in the process, that it <br />is carefully reviewed, and so they are not directly impacting the value of their properties. <br />And while that doesn’t happen in some sort of—as Lisa said, in an extreme case, if it <br />were to happen somehow that they dropped the value, which would never happen, the <br />financial impact to them would be, in this case, $70 or $80. But again we don’t see that <br />happening. We just tried to put that out to give you some idea of the scale. <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: All right. I guess the other point—I don’t know if it’s really a question. The <br />point is that there are other potential benefits from the value. It doesn’t just have to— <br />you don’t have to have the value go down. There’s also potential benefits to someone <br />who would see their value go up, in terms of—just one, as value goes up, that makes it <br />more amenable for potential sales down the road. So the idea that it’s only tax benefits <br />we’re talking about--that’s just one of several that could occur, to the change. <br /> <br />MS. CRAWFORD: Right, if such a thing were to happen. But again, there has to be—the <br />analytical process takes place, and there have to be sales that justify that, which is the <br />purpose of the submittal, the recommendation submittal and the justification that’s <br />reviewed by the administrators. <br /> <br />MS. NAHOOPII: As a fee appraiser—I’ve only been within the department for so many <br />years--but as a fee appraiser, I didn’t put too much weight on what the County did for <br />their assessments. I mean, that’s not saying much for the County process, it’s just I’m <br />responsible to come up with a value, and if I’m going to put my license on the line—I <br />don’t know about how realtors go about it either, but I see them not really list based on <br />what we have our values quite set at. But I definitely understand where you’re coming <br />from on that. It’s not just a tax benefit. They could look at it from other sides as well. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Mr. Henricks, do you have any questions? <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Yeah, back to Nancy. Nancy, are you saying that because what you’re <br />doing here is mass appraisal, it takes it out of the area of directly affecting the person’s – <br /> <br />MS. CRAWFORD: --directly affecting their individual property. <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: Is it indirectly affecting them, then? Is that what you’re saying? <br />Because in some way they’re affecting their property. You know they are, right? <br /> <br />MS. CRAWFORD: I know they are making a recommendation— <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: --But it’s affecting their property, though. <br /> <br />MS. CRAWFORD: I guess I’m disagreeing, because I know that they are making a <br />recommendation, which is vetted. There is not an automatic rubber stamp of these <br />10 <br /> <br />