Our property values are being raised too much each year. Governor Tim Pawlenty has warned us on his Friday radio shows on WCCO about Counties and Cities doing this to generate new tax revenue. My home value was riased 8.9% in one year. That is just plain BS. The assessor says they base the newest valuation on home sales from Oct 2005 to Sept 2006. Well I know of two homes on my street of similar size that neither sold for the value they have set my home value at and those homes both were sold in late 2005 & mid 2006. As far as the "goof" I have 2 comments: #1 thank God this person read his notice and called the County on it and did not shove the notice in a desk drawer unread. #2 the County made $930,000.00 in budget cuts & the City of Waconia made $430,000.00 in cuts against the $2,550,000.00 the goof was supposed to raise. So where is the other $1,140,000.00 in cuts going to come from? Answer that Mayor Schiffman and Waconia City Council. Your City taxes are going up 30.1% on my property per the "revised" tax statement letters sent to me. The rumor on the streets is that the new ice arena already has $1,000,000.00 in construction change orders.