Vice chair Elaine Powell asked if county commissioners could appeal the property tax values of golf courses, presumably to see if they could get a higher value. Tax assessor Ken Joyner said any property owner in Mecklenburg County can appeal any property valuation.
Quail Hollow Club saw its tax assessment fall from $13.5 million in 2019 to just under $10 million this year. A consultant for Mecklenburg assessor Ken Joyner rated the club a "4" on a scale of 1-6, with six being the nicest.
Mecklenburg Commissioner Laura Meier has asked assessor Ken Joyner to explain how several Charlotte golf clubs received lower tax assessments this year compared to 2019.
Credit: Ocean Biology Processing Group, NASA/GSFC
It is February 1994 and I am on the research vessel R/V Moana Wave off the coast of Lanai, Hawaii, with the team of the Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY) project. The water is incredibly blue, and I can’t help but be awestruck by the enormous energy, momentum, power and depth of the ocean as I watch the currents and the wind create what appear to be rising and falling pyramids of solid substance, no longer a liquid but a mighty living thing. It is against this backdrop that we work to deploy devices designed to determine the optical properties of the Pacific Ocean. As the instrument at hand, bright yellow and wing-shaped, is lowered over the port side into the water, its yellow wings appear green. This change, and indeed the blue color of the water itself, was indicative of what was in the water, which in the case of the open Pacific, was “not much.” “Much” meaning small particles in the water that scatter or absorb s