Local officials are concerned over state assessments on wooded parcels in the town.
State orders reassessment Marathon town chairman Langenhahn says state policies promote sprawl Town of Marathon chairman Keith Langenhahn thinks that the property taxes his town residents pay on wooded land are already way too high. He fears that a state supervised assessment of the township, recently ordered by the state Department of Revenue, will drive taxes on wooded parcels so high that locals, including farmers, will be forced to sell to residential home builders looking for large lots. Al Romportl, chief of the DOR's regional property tax bureau in Wausau, doesn't necessarily agree with this comment, but he does predict that Marathon township woodland owners will not be happy with the results of the reassessment. The woodland owners will see an increase. The state has hired Accurate Appraisal, LLC, Appleton, to conduct the property tax assessment from scratch with a completion date of Aug. 31, 2001.