What You Get For

What You Get For FAST FOOD Amber Hill, SAMA Polk County Editorial Committee Member

205 Paul Bunyan Drive NW, Bemidji Beltrami County

Sold August 2020 $750,000 Hardee’s Franchise

2635 West Division Street, St. Cloud

Sherburne County

Sold May 2020 $1,700,000 Former Ciatti’s Ristorante, building to be demolished.

5309 Shoreline Drive, Mound Hennepin County Sold April 2020 $241,000 Porta Del Sol is reportedly now closed.

1520 W. Lincoln Avenue, Olivia Renville County Sold February 2020 $215,000 Dairy Queen franchise

XXX Congratulations!

82020 MAAO Scholarship Winner XXXX Adam Thompson

Adam Thompson is the son of Jill Thompson, Hubbard County Assessor’s Office.

Adam is attending Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota for exercise science, sports management and strength conditioning.

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Congrats again Adam and thank you to everyone who entered. There were 60 entrants total for the random drawing that was held August 4 at the MAAO Executive Board meeting.

* The statements made or opinions expressed by authors in Equal Eyes do not necessarily represent a policy position of the Minnesota Association of Assessing Officers.

tHank you letter From adam tHompson

Adam Thompson 13261 159th Ave. Menahga, MN 56464

RE: 2020 MAAO Family Member Scholarship

Dear MAAO Scholarship Committee & Membership:

It is with my gratitude and thanks to have been selected and awarded as the recipient of the first ever $1,000 Family Member Scholarship through MAAO. It will be a very welcome and great help to pay for my continued college expenses. My mom is MAAO member Jill Thompson, who works in the Hubbard County Assessor’s office in Park Rapids, MN. I am currently in my third year of college at Valley City State University, located in Valley City, North Dakota - majoring in Exercise Science – with a concentration in Sports Management, Strength and Conditioning, along with Coaching, plus managing to make appearances on the Dean’s List multiple times. I also play baseball at VCSU, which I really enjoy – listed as a utility player as I can play most any position, but primarily middle infield, but can also pitch and catch, so am kept quite busy.

Out of the 60+ applicants who applied, all I’m sure were quite deserving, unique individuals, each with their own path and story to tell, yours truly included. So it is with great surprise to be the lucky one who was chosen for this gift of money. I understand the MAAO President, Daryl Moeller was the one who pitched the idea for this scholarship, getting it off the ground and becoming a reality. It was a great idea – so thank-you Daryl as it was a good one. It will help many future MAAO families with students like myself, take a little edge off college tuition costs, as the scholarships out there are competitive and/or specific to a certain major, gender, academic year or location. It’s nice this scholarship had the flexibility and was open to everyone to apply.

Thank you again for this monetary scholarship gift, made possible by the generosity of the members of MAAO, which seems to be a pretty good group of helpful people, who also care about family members.

Sincerely,

Adam Thompson VCSU Student

Winner of the MAAO Assessor of the Year Award

Mark Peterson Cass County Assessor

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“Region IV nominates Mark Peterson for the 2020 MAAO Assessor of the Year. Mark is the chair of the MAAO Legislative Committee and has been for many years, working to improve the assessments in Minnesota through collaborating among legislators, assessors and many other stakeholders. He has provided testimony to the legislature on behalf of MAAO many times. He has helped lead the organization to partner with the Association of Minnesota Counties. Mark has instructed seminars for MAAO sponsored continuing education. Mark is the Cass County Assessor and has served as Region IV President and Director in the past. Mark is a strong mentor and leader in the assessment community in Northern Minnesota.”