There has not been, imho, nearly enough dialog, if any at all, about the screw up in the county assessors office that resulted in a number of taxing districts getting shorted on expected tax income to meet their budgets. A remedy apparently has been worked out where the shorted taxing disticts will be allowed to increase their forgone balances so they can meet their budgets. Also a number of taxing districts were paid too much but they will not have to reduce their forgone balances. They just get to keep it. I have no sympathy what so ever for the poor little old taxers. If they can reopen their budgets, like CDA did last year to increase spending, they can also reopen their budgets to reduce their spending to accomodate the shortage. And the unidentified taxing districts that got too much should be identified and forced to give it back to the taxpayers by having their forgone balances reduced. Who are they?/Gary Ingram.

Question: Rather than reclaim 2006 taxes lost through an assessor snafu, should Kootenai County taxing districts simply eat their losses?

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