The use of model-based IBIs for wetland plants should reduce assessment errors associated with natural variation in plant metrics and should increase confidence in wetland assessments.
Shortening the MIND procedure was suggested to reduce assessment and consultation time.
The original BSL-95 was shortened to the BSL-23 to reduce assessment time and to target sensitivity to change.
The assessment is kept brief, in order to reduce assessment reactivity, i.e., the effects that assessment can have on treatment outcomes [ 20].
However, the reason for including the MINI as an assessment instrument for deaf and severely hard-of-hearing persons was to improve consistency, not to reduce assessment time.
In 2000 the commission received 49,707 applications, and offered reduced assessments in response to 4,667 of them.
As in San Francisco, other counties have proactively reduced assessments in recognition of the downturn.
According to the county, 155,000 grievances were filed last year, 136,000 for residential property, and a third of them won reduced assessments.
According to the indictment, Mr. Schussler offered bribes of thousands of dollars to city tax assessors for 35 years in exchange for reducing assessments on particular buildings.
The firm the Assessment Board used to establish property assessments, Cole Layer Trumble of Dayton, Ohio, must now recalculate the assessments for every homeowner based on the 24,000 reduced assessments, Mr. O'Shea said.
