{"id":3413,"date":"2022-11-04T12:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2022-11-04T23:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T06:50:37","slug":"auditor-controller-joe-harn-facing-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/11\/04\/auditor-controller-joe-harn-facing-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditor-Controller Joe Harn Facing Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Noel Stack \/ Mountain Democrat<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Nov 4, 2022 \u2014 The El Dorado Hills Community Services District is taking its public fight with county Auditor-Controller Joe Harn to court.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the EDHCSD filed a lawsuit against Harn, who purposely left Lighting and Landscaping Assessment District fees charged by the CSD off property tax bills. At that time, the auditor said he took action after noticing discrepancies in the assessments between what CSD consultants submitted and what the EDHCSD Board of Directors approved. He then asked CSD officials for a letter \u201cindicating that the CSD board was responsible for the accuracy and lawfulness of the assessments,\u201d as it had done the prior year. No letter was received.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CSD sued Harn in 2017 related to the CSD\u2019s failure to comply with the Mitigation Fee Act,\u201d states a news release from the Auditor-Controller\u2019s Office. \u201cOne of the outcomes of that litigation is that the CSD now is required to indemnify Harn and the county from any errors (in) the CSD\u2019s \u2026 fees under the Mitigation Fee Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EDHCSD officials see it differently. In October the district posted a statement on its website claiming, \u201c\u2026 the requirement of the county auditor (the indemnification letter) is not based in any law or fact. Rather it is about his office being bothered by questions from the public; a basis in conjecture of a slipshod civil grand jury report about LLADs, and; his concern for the district charging a lessor assessment than the maximum permitted by resolution of the district board of directors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A letter sent directly to the auditor accuses Harn of \u201cpolitical pandering\u201d and called him \u201ca bully on the playground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tahoedailytribune.com\/news\/el-dorado-county-auditor-controller-facing-lawsuit\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If\/when supplemental property tax bills are sent out, the cost is estimated at $60,000. Harn told the Mountain Democrat the county would initially incur the expense and then recover the cost from LLAD funds received.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Harn, \u201ca bully on the playground.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8220;If\/when supplemental property tax bills are sent out, the cost is estimated at $60,000. Harn told the Mountain Democrat the county would initially incur the expense and then recover the cost from LLAD funds received.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}