STATE OF MINNESOTA TWENTIETH MEETING
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-EIGHTH SESSION
COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY AND LOCAL TAX DIVISION
Chair, Representative Jim Davnie
MINUTES
Representative Davnie, Chair of Committee on Property and Local Tax Division, called the meeting to order at 4:00 pm on February 26, 2014 in Room 10 of the State Office Building.
The Committee Legislative Assistant noted the roll.
Members present:
Davnie, Chair
Lien, Vice Chair
Torkelson, Lead
Carlson
Erickson, S.
Faust
Garofalo
Hertaus
Kiel
Lenczewski
Loeffler
Mahoney
Marquart
Nelson
Runbeck
A quorum was present at 4:04 pm.
Rep. Hertaus moved approval of the minutes of April 3, 2013. THE MOTION PREVAILED. THE MINUTES WERE APPROVED.
Andrea Fish, Department of Revenue, presented the 2014 Property Tax Values and Assessment Practices Report.
Eric Willette, Property Tax Research Director, Department of Revenue, presented the Residential Homestead Property Tax Burden (Voss Report) from January 2014.
Andrea Fish and Jon Klockziem, Department of Revenue, presented the Report and Study on Business Production Property from January 31, 2014.
Testifying on behalf of the Report and Study on Business Production Property, January 31, 2014:
Bill Effertz, Steele County Assessor, MN Association of Assessing Officers (MAAO)
Dean Reder, Minnesota Biofuels Association
Tim Ruchicki, Executive Director, Biofuels Association
Dan Whitman, County Assessor, Martin County
Eric Willette, Property Tax Research Director, Department of Revenue, presented the Iron Range Fiscal Disparities Study
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Representative Jim Davnie, Chair
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Leslie Thompson, Committee Legislative Assistant