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Seventy to BRT: Don't be dicks
So, you know how everyone hates the BRT so much that we just voted them out of existence? We did, and they totally had it coming. But the voter-enforced oblivion doesn't take effect until Oct. 1, which gives the BRT folks - the ones still threatening litigation to keep their jobs - a few more months to, well, fuck everything up.
Seventy to BRT: Don't be dicks
So, you know how everyone hates the BRT so much that we just voted them out of existence? We did, and they totally had it coming. But the voter-enforced oblivion doesn't take effect until Oct. 1, which gives the BRT folks — the ones still threatening litigation to keep their jobs — a few more months to, well, fuck everything up.
Enter local do-gooder Zack Stalberg of Committee of Seventy. In a press release, he kindly asks the BRT to play nice and bow to the will of the people. Here's part of it:
Zachary Stalberg, President and CEO of the non?partisan organization that champions effectivegovernment, said it is time for the BRT to respect the voters and property taxpayers by also:• Foregoing an appeal of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to keep the BRT?eliminationquestion on the May 18 ballot.• Working in cooperation with the new Chief Assessment Officer, who will head the new Office ofProperty Assessment and whose initial four?year term will start on July 1, 2010.• Ensuring a smooth transition of its assessment appeals responsibilities to a new and separateBoard of Property Assessment Appeals, whose seven members will begin their initial terms onOctober 1, 2010.“Given the public’s complete lack of trust in the BRT, prolonging the inevitable will only inflict furtherdamage,” Stalberg said. Noting that the fallout from the BRT scandals is still continuing, he cited grossinaccuracies in the property assessment system as a key factor in the opposition by 7 of City Council’s 17members to a temporary 9.9 percent property?tax hike, which some have said could face a legalchallenge.“Regaining the taxpayers’ confidence will take a massive overhaul of the assessment system and thepeople who administer it,” Stalberg said. “The soon?to?be?extinct BRT shouldn’t force Philadelphians towait until the lights go out to start that process.”
Cosign.
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