this is the uh call the meeting of the town of air board of assessors uh Wednesday April 23rd 2025 at 205 This is a remote participation open session meeting Uh okay Anybody have a chance to
look at the agenda yep Make a motion to approve I'll make a motion to approve the agenda for April 23rd 2025 I'll second it All those in favor i I uh
How about minutes um April um because it was the week Jackie was leaving and there's been still so much chaos since she left I did not get the two sets of minutes Um it's just the March the open uh the n did we didn't we didn't do the
19th So it's the open session and the two executive sessions So I will have them on the next one Um traffic is kind of settled down a little bit now So I think I'll be able to kind of dive into things Okay Have uh you
hired anybody or We made an offer this morning Cross your fingers um cuz we have already made two offers that have not worked out So we're crossing our fingers that he accepts either today or tomorrow morning And hopefully we should
have somebody starting near the end of May Right now he's currently contracted doing um uh contract work for a different town getting their cyclicals done So he doesn't want to you know jump out of that contract He wants to finish that up
But we're we're very hopeful that this one will work out That's okay So approval of the motor vehicle and trailer payment report for March Yeah So there were a couple lingering 23
and 24 obviously being the biggest commitment for 2025 all of the I sold my vehicles and I moved out of state and and I didn't live here January 1st but didn't cancel my plates all those things Um we had a
total of 105 abatements Uh the abatement amount being 9,98869 Any discussion on that have a motion I move that we accept the motor vehicle abatements for
um 20 Should I just do the dates i don't know For 31 March for the month of March Okay For the month of March of 25 We put the amount in there You want to put the amounts not
Yeah we can That's fine Is it 99 888 69 that correct Okay Okay We have a second on that
Second Okay All those in favor i I Okay Right Now um motor vehicle commitments number two is now out These are um anything that's
been registered or changed from the beginning of January up through usually about February or March I'm not sure exactly when they cut the file but this is now excise commitment to getting ready to go out It looks like there are a total of
546 bills going out in the amount of 171,116 Any discussion on that do I hear a motion i'll make a motion to approve uh commitment two of 2025
um in the amount of $171,116 and to put our signatures on I'll second that All those in favor i I I Okay Uh fiscal year 2025 final personal
exemption filings Yep So deadline is April 1st So these are all of the um people that have came in from the last time we uh met and voted to April 1st Uh it looks like we had three of the
veterans 22 Uh these are just the standard 400 None of these were uh 100% disabilities So all of these are the 400 And there was one um senior exemption 41C She's been getting this for the past
few years and just got the form into us late So we um I reviewed all the documents on that as well for the uh the income and asset So these are the last uh three qualified 20 uh 22 exemptions and one
41C exemption Okay How much was that one for uh the 41C is $500 500 Okay Okay I just have a question How do they these people prove that they're veterans
do they have to show you some forms or just say they are believe these are these are disabled vets They have to give me the ve uh VA letter showing their percentage of disability It has to be between 10 and 10 and 100% disability
Uh between 10 and 90 they get the 400 Um between at 100% they get a th00and Okay So yeah they do have to bring in um most of these we've had for a lot of years So the letters are on file but anybody new coming in we do collect a letter from
them showing that they are getting disability from from the government Okay Thank you Yep Any more discussion on that do I have a motion we have to actually approve this
Uh yeah we have to approve the exemptions for um the the three veterans disability exemption 22 and the 141C as presented
I'll make a motion to approve the FY2025 final personal exemption filings as presented I'll second that All those in favor I
I Jim you vote Did you say I said I yeah Okay Okay Now discussion and vote regarding overlay funds Yeah So um I kind of updated in the email to you guys
when I sent it out Um we I think are at about 540,000 right now The past few years the board has voted to release overlay funds We haven't used a lot There's been some to give back It's been um the balance
got a little excessive Um this year in looking at everything where we don't have an answer on plat yet um and we still don't know if any of our denials are going to file right now at ATB We um
Carrie and I were talking and we don't think there's any need to release any funds Um obviously it's on the board if you want to change that but um basically I'm just looking for a vote saying that we um we will not release any overlay funds
to the general fund for fiscal 25 Okay And this is the last date we can do it If something happens later we can release it Um yeah I think we can we can vote to change that at any time It's just right now for her record she just
wants something showing that we're not doing it this year So um so she has it If we need if we change that we we can certainly do that There's no real timeline on that I think we can do that at any point during
the year Okay All right Any thoughts on that Ruth you all set no I just be it's I think it's a good thing we we don't release them till we know what's Platin doing if some of the others
especially with the the um the hospital you know pending and possible threat there of um ATB as well So I think it's it's probably worth just waiting
Do I have a motion i move that we do not vote to we vote not to release the overlay funds at this time Okay Is that Yeah that's fine Second Okay
Uh all those in favor i I Okay Uh any old business no I don't think so I don't remember anything pending from the last Um we're just working our way
through the last of abatements in our executive session Um like I mentioned before I'm hoping I'm hopeful that we have an offer accepted and somebody starting as assistant at the end of May
Um I have my daughter here doing senior work off um doing high school community service hours Not senior because she's not there yet Um but she's doing community service hours trying to help me keep things organized and and get
through the little filing stuff while I'm here alone So that's good Kills two birds with one stone right yep Exactly So okay But other than that um it's been pretty much motor vehicles and
real estate abatements That's been my last month just kind of diving through all of that And um just got all of my uh map changes printed so I can get through those Getting ready to to start moving
towards fiscal 26 and um getting those things going So okay No other new business Okay Why don't we pick a date for the next uh meeting before we go into executive session okay
Uh about May 21st at work for everybody Wednesday Okay that looks fine here Yep I believe there's a there's um someone else running for assessor Is there still
April that did the man yes I believe there is somebody else that is going to be on the ballot Okay So so well you're available as of now and we'll see what happens after after election day I'm sure you'll meet
somebody else after election 21st work for everybody Um Yes 2 o'clock Okay May Okay we'll go into executive session Um executive session pursuant to general
law C30A section 21 A7 general law C59 section 60 and general law C214 section 1B in connection with consideration and action on applications for abatements a motion to go in Uh also we will not uh
reconvene in a regular session after we uh go out of executive session Do I hear a motion for that so moved Okay I second it Uh Ruth how do
you vote i Jim how do you vote i And the chair bolts tie