West Bend Board of Review elects chair, vice chair and reconfirms rules

The West Bend City Board of Review convened Sept. 20, elected John Corbett as chair and Mary Ann Zashotek as vice chair and reconfirmed its rules and procedures for handling objections to the 2023 assessment roll. New chair John Corbett took the gavel after a voice vote that followed a nomination and second.

The board also reconfirmed compliance with mandatory training under Wisconsin Statute 70.46(4), with members Adam Willikette, Amy Koehler and John Corbett reported as having completed the required training. The board swore in city assessor Jeff Yoder and assistant assessor Bill Meyer for the record before the assessment roll review began.

City staff circulated the board-of-review packet and the motion to adopt the rules and procedures carried on a voice vote. Clerk and staff noted that the open-meeting and open-book notices had been published in the local daily newspaper and posted at city hall, the library and the utility/sewer department.

The meeting moved from these procedural items into a substantive review of the assessor's materials and the many written objections filed since the department released the revaluation notices.