Good morning. I call to order the town of Dyon Board of Assessors regular meeting on September 17, 2025. The time is 9:45 a.m. Um, this is a public meeting video and audio recorded for cable broadcast and internet posting on
www.dyon-ma.gov [Music] and on YouTube. At this time, I'd like to ask everyone to stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one
nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Uh, attendance, the gang is all here. I see no old business to new business.
Take it away, Stephanie. motor vehicle abatements for 2025. [Music] Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve the levy of 2025 motor vehicle abatements
for September in the amount of $2,481. I second that motion. Motion made seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I have an extra pen. This thing here is a pencil. I don't
want to sign with a pencil. I'll just use your pencil and pen. I know Eric's got a pen today and I have Well, claim possession of that. Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve the 2024 motor
vehicle abatements for September in the amount of $1,14827. I second that motion. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I I vote. Yes.
Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve and sign the monthly monthly list of abatements vote excise uh in uh as of September 15, 2025 in the amount of $106. I second that motion.
Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I I the uncollectible. Sorry. This is the one that had an error last week. This the words didn't match
the numbers and what was the what was the previous one? The number looks familiar. Is it 1488? That's the same number, right? 1148. 1148.
on top of the numbers over there. Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve and sign the levy of 2022 vote abatements as of September 17, 2025 in the amount of $1,488.
I second that motion. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I public input. Hearing silence. Um all the public out there.
Um so I received I I apologize. Uh, I got a new phone and the mail thing was not set up to give me notifications. So, I haven't been getting your mail. I did receive you sent something yesterday. I think you sent a text
um on minutes and so yeah. So, you sent me a text and I looked and I saw that there is a letter and I have it I have it with me. You have it with you so I can sign it now. Okay. I just wanted you to review it, make sure it sounded okay. Okay. Um, so we could do that right
after the meeting. Yeah, that's fine. However you want to do it, I was not ignoring you. I'm sorry. It's okay. And if you know, if I don't answer you within a day, don't don't hesitate to text me because that email is wonky.
Yeah, no problem. Um, all right. Um, minutes 27th. I haven't really had a chance to look at this. I figured you weren't here, so Okay. No. Well, I still want to look at them. It would just be my
to make sure I covered, you know, the proper way to Yeah. Okay. What I'll I'll do is um So, I have them here for them to just read over. It was pretty straightforward. I think the only other thing was just my the error on that last
one. So, I put in there that Yeah, it was that was that an executive session? No, there was Do we Did we have executive session? Yeah, we had executive session, but those aren't the ones that were Yeah. So, um I didn't even think about
that. You weren't here when we were talking about You can't say we're not here when we were talking about um that thing that we just signed, which was the abatement of the uh boat, the uncollectible boat. Oh, I saw that. Um
um I took a quick scan, but I really haven't read them. something but you got information from Paul. Yes. Um so I just want to be clear that uh we did discuss it and I I made it very clear I found it deeply distasteful
but as it turns out that the the records and you know what was sent out who owned what uh it was a mess and to collect it would be nearly impossible and you're talking small amount and burdensome to everybody. Yeah. It
wouldn't Yeah. Um, so as to stage fill as it was, we decided to just abate all of this the old stuff. That was like what which was kind of the recommendation or something like that. That was kind of the recommendation from the state too when we looked at it. The state was kind of like it probably best off just starting with a fresh slate.
Just start with a fresh get those. Yeah. So u I'll entertain a motion. So you can't do it as to be do I have to step down because it's Eric? No, I can do the one for the 26. You can't do that one because you weren't there. No, I can actually I can actually do it
and I can vote I could actually vote on this. Um, but you weren't there. There's no motion to adjourn. We went to executive. Yeah, the motion to executive session is not in the right format.
So on the 2 I'm I'll make a motion we approve the minutes of August 6th, 2025. August 20 So that that's why I'm saying we need to hold this. I need to look at this further. So we don't have August 6. August 6 we already we signed off on that.
Oh, so that was the first ones you asked me for and I said I and you said oh I sent them that was signed off on no motion. No motion. So what I'm what I'm saying is I think we should move the 27th to the next meeting.
So even though we have a there's no adjournment and this isn't the format up in here we use always use the same format. Mhm. You didn't use that for the
executive session. All right. Um this is why we vote you in as clerk. So, so the clerk, did somebody come in? Yeah, he was trying to hot spot. He turned on public input. You're too late.
Um, so yeah. So, I want to do that. So, I'm saying no motion on the minutes. Let's do it next month or next next meeting. Okay. It is next month. Next month. Okay. Next. Anticipated items.
I mean, I I have a I have something, but I don't Well, if you want to talk about Yeah, I'll just talk about it. So, um, the clerk's office, they're the keeper of the records for like pilots and all that stuff. So, um, Becky came to me and said
that for one of these, the years are off. Oh, no. So, I don't know if um this is is that signed. It's a page with just the Yes, this is um
All right. So, she's saying it's off. So, she's saying the years are off and I said, "Well, we're starting uh in FY26 taking money." That's not an assess problem. Well, okay. So the years they're only 18
years instead of the 20 in this from the So it's going 25 to 43 instead of 20 years. So even though it's we're starting in 26. So I didn't I just figured I So shouldn't it be 26 to 45? No, I put that together. I'm the one
that's got to look at that. I'll let you know and I'll I'll tell them the situation. The other thing is um Okay. All right. Yeah, she caught that. Wow. She must have had some insomnia or something.
Reading legal documents. Yeah, exactly. Okay. All right. Anything else? No, it was just that letter to read over and sign. Motion to adjurnn. I second that motion. Motion made and seconded. Any notice? Uh, all in favor? I
I always forget it's a non motion a non- discussion. Thank you very much everybody. Have a nice day. Thanks for coming.