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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Rescheduled Regular Meeting -November 2, 2007 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS <br />A. Public Hearing <br />(7) continued... <br />to buy them? <br />MR. GIBNEY: Well, it's been on the market <br />for ten years. <br />MR. MEDHURST: You want to have the <br />city buy them? <br />MR. GIBNEY: Hey, I moved your house. <br />I've got a long history with you on that <br />property. <br />MR. MEDHURST: I know, and it was a <br />crappy job done on it, too. You had Builders <br />Witt do the furnace. I wouldn't let them <br />build a fire at Boy Scout Camp. <br />MR. GIBNEY: Thank you, sir. <br />MR. MEDHURST: The point is, if the city <br />wants to buy them, let them write me a check <br />for $750,000 and you can do what the hell <br />you want with them. This whole deal is <br />some way to rip off the public. To raise the <br />damn taxes. In the twenty years we've been <br />there, the taxes have quadrupled. <br />Quadrupled. The only reason they only <br />quadrupled is because I'm a real estate <br />appraiser. And I went to the tax appeal board <br />recently and tore them anew. When I got <br />done with them, they came from 100% <br />increase to 12% because I was right. I nailed <br />them to the wall, and if you don't believe it, <br />just get them over here and put them on the <br />fire. Tax rates are abysmal in this county. <br />And you people sit here, all these politicians <br />38 <br />