COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council approved a contract Monday night between the city, the Michigan Attorney General’s office, and a third party appraiser in reference to the city’s appeal of the Clemens Food Group challenge to its tax assessment for 2018.
City Manager Keith Baker said the city would pay no more than $24,000 for the appraiser. The funds are already budgeted.
The assessed valuation of the Clemens property in its first year of operation came in at about $91 million while Clemens felt it should have been at $60.8 million.
Baker said the appraisal has to be completed by July 9, 2019. City Attorney Megan Angell said a hearing before the Michigan Tax Tribunal has not been scheduled yet, but she is expecting it will be held in September 2019.
