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UPDATE Ravenoaks Subdivision Road Reconstruction Project: April 15, 2025 Re: UPDATE TO RAVENOAKS SUBDIVISION RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT Dear Town of Oregon Resident, The Town of Oregon has approved improvements to your neighborhood roads: Blue Heron Way, Gray Owl Court, Knollwood Drive, Onwentsia Trail, Partridge Hill Drive, Quail Court, Ravenoaks Trail and Twin Oaks Court. (Ahwahnee Ct. and Trail Ridge Court were paved more recently and are in good condition, so they will not require any improvements at this time.) The pulverizing and paving is planned to start Monday April 21. It will start with pulverizing and grading, which will take about a week to work through the neighborhood. Then on Monday April 28 paving will start, which will take about 4 days. Schedule is subject to change due to weather or other conditions. We will try to keep the website updated with changes.  Construction will typically take place M-F 7 am to 6 pm, but may extend beyond those hours, especially if time has been lost to rain days or other conditions. Your patience is appreciated during this ~2 week period, which will cause some inconvenience as the work and equipment will have a heavy presence during the weekday, and possibly on the weekend. You can possibly expect dust from the pulverizing and grading process, and you may notice particles of pulverized pavement temporarily tracked into your driveway from your vehicles.  The pulverizing and paving process may cause some disruption as you enter and exit your driveway if they are working in that location. Both the pulverizing and paving are moving operations, and they move relatively quickly, so it likely won’t be more than 10-15 min that your access is delayed. With some planning, you can look down the road to see if they are coming toward your driveway, so you can leave before or after they pass by your driveway. Avoid the active construction area as much as possible, both for your sake and for the sake of the construction crew. Each time a car passes, they will need to slow down or stop operations, prolonging the duration of the project. If you see the operation is happening to the south of your driveway, use the north access to Sayles Trail if possible (unless your driveway is very close to Sun Valley Parkway). If you see the operation is happening to the north of your driveway, use the south access to Sun Valley Parkway if possible (unless your driveway is very close to Sun Valley Parkway). Allow extra time to get to your destination, in case you have to take the far access or there are cars backed up due to the flagging operation, which can only allow 1 lane open at a time.  If you must pass through the active construction area, please drive slowly and be considerate of the workers for their safety. A smile and a wave is always appreciated, as they are doing their best to do a good job for you. If you have a flexible schedule, please try to avoid coming or going during the popular morning and evening hours when buses are present and people are coming and going to work and school. There will be flaggers to always allow people and emergency vehicles to get through. However, “through” traffic, is discouraged. If you can use another route to avoid the construction operation, please do so.  School buses will always be allowed through the construction zone to drop off and pick up students. Please use extra caution if your child is getting dropped off or picked up near the construction operation.  For questions on construction or traffic control, please contact Dustin Rondorf, Payne & Dolan at (608) 535-2463 mobile or drondorf@walbecgroup.com If you need assistance from the Town during the project, please reach out to Abel Schultz, Public Works Road Patrolman, at (608) 438-2397 mobile or aschultz@townoforegonwi.gov Please sign up for Town of Oregon news to stay up to date on this project and other Town activities. Visit: https://townoforegonwi.gov/subscribe-to-updates/ Thank you.   Jennifer Hanson Town Clerk

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2024 Open Book and Board of Review Dates

The 2024 Open Book and Board of Review dates set.

Open Book is Thursday, July 11, 2024 12:00pm to 2:00pm at the Oregon Town Hall, 1138 Union Road, Oregon, WI

Board of Review is Monday, July 29, 2024 12:00pm to 2:00pm at the Oregon Town Hall, 1138 Union Road, Oregon, WI

Open Book Notice

Board of Review 2-Hour Meeting Notice

If you have property assessment questions, please contact Accurate Assessor at:

Address: PO Box 415, Menasha, WI 54952

Phone: (920) 749-8098

Email: info@accurateassessor.com

Website: https://accurateassessor.com/ 

Property Owner Guides

Property Owners

Agricultural Assessment

Appealing a Property Assessment Value

OPEN BOOK: WHAT TO EXPECT

 

To start, let’s do a quick refresher on what Open Book is.

Open Book is held one time a year. It is an opportunity for property owners to discuss their values with the assessor and share any evidence to either update their property data or share a recent appraisal to contest their values and learn more about the assessment process.

During a maintenance year very little changes to value occur. In this case, Open Book is a short 2 hour period (which is state required) and tends to be less attended.

In other cases, Open Book is held during an Interim Market Update where sweeping value changes are made to bring the entire community back into compliance by reviewing and assessing all properties to market value (based on recent market sales). This Open Book is usually a few days or a week to ensure more time for property owners to meet with or share evidence with an assessor.

Our assessors take time to help educate property owners, share our sales analysis with them, and address their concerns.

 

   

The process is the same each year for Open Book and follows these simple steps:

Sending Notices: Assessors send notices to property owners that have a change in value. This could be due to a recent data change, a remodel, new construction, an interim market update, etc. Each notice shows the value change and explains in detail the owners rights when it comes to assessments.

Request for Assessment Review: Each notice explains that in order to contest their value an owner must fill out a Request for Assessment Review form. This information helps the assessor understand the owner’s reasoning and evidence before the Open Book meeting.

Open Book Meeting: An Open Book meeting is about 15 to 20 minutes. Our assessors are trained to ask a series of questions and take notes on every interaction (PR-130 forms) and save any evidence the owner brings in. After the meeting an assessor will review the information and respond to the owner with a change or no change notice.

Value Review: In most cases, if there is sufficient evidence provided to an assessor they can make a change to value. If there is not sufficient evidence a no change notice will be sent and the property owner. At this point the owner still has the right to contest their value at Board of Review.

Each property is unique, leading to a grey area in mass assessment. The Open Book period enables assessors to consider new information and evidence, resulting in a more precise valuation. Assessments are opinions of value based on facts, and the more information assessors have, the better their determination of assessed value will be.