unmute good morning uh this is the town of Dyton Board of Assessors regular meeting on April 2nd 2025 i call meeting to order at 9:46 i'd like to mention that this is a public meeting video and audio recorded
for cable broadcast and internet posting on www.dyon-ma.gov and on YouTube this time I'd like to ask everyone to please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge algiance 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 uh attendance here all here uh seems we have no bold business so
we're going to jump straight into new business signed motor vehicle abatements for fiscal year 25 yep it's been a while yeah um Mr chairman I move that we
approve the uh 2025 motor vehicle abatements uh in the amount of this is for March 31st 2025 in the amount of $3,71846 i second that motion motion made second any
discussion all in favor i I uh next up is motor vehicle abatements for fiscal year 2024 chairman I move that we approve the 2024 motor vehicle abatements uh as for March 31st 2025 in the amount of $97854
i second that motion motion made and seconded any discussion all in favor i I I'm seeing these leasing companies getting refunds i'll bet they um don't all refund the money to the
blesses i believe that goes into bottom line profit yeah well I tried to get legislation on that pass and it got to a committee i'm going to resurrect it again after seeing that i'm going to write to few people and say you need to do this i got to find the paperwork
though that one that's a rebuild it says 2025-01c so um it's okay so and that moved here and is still getting a bill from another town and so they evaded in the other town and
getting bill to us okay um Mr chim I move that we approve this um notice of commitment it's a rebuilding motor vehicle exc exercise excise tax in the amount of $2638
i second the motion motion made seconded any discussion all in favor i I sign two of these two yeah has two pages right i see i just I have no it's been a very busy week that's the first
two pager right yes this is our second This is our second commitment for this year it's just the last page showing you what the dollar amount that's a two pager okay mr chairman I move that we approve the motor vehicle
and excise tax commitment wow yeah my second commitment of the year in the amount of $177,760 five cents i second that motion motion made and seconded any discussion
hearing none all in favor i I year 2025 exemption these are um exceptions that have come in you know after the billing has gone out so manually put them in mr chairman I move that we approve the
levy of 2025 real estate exemptions uh April 1st 2025 in the amount of $7,287.34 i second that motion motion made and seconded any discussion all in favor i
I That's the CPA that goes along same same yeah had a uh person approached me the other night um I asked her to contact me because she was wondering the time
frame for an abatement march three months from when they stamp in there end of April yep some are this week mr chairman I move that we approve the CPA list of
exemptions levy 2025 second in the amount of $5080 i second that motion motion made and seconded any discussion all in favor i I
These are beatenments we already approved at the last meeting and I'll let in mr chairman I move that we approve the list of real estate abatements dated April 1st
2025 in the amount of $3,56453 i second that motion made seconded any discussion hearing none all in favor hi hi b is the CPA that goes along with
that chairman I move that we approve the CPA abatement sorry we went around in for 2025 in the amount of $238 i second that motion motion being seconded any
discussion i'm not sure we can afford this i know i don't think so we should say no all in favor i so all of you voters just remember he's he's up for re-election looking out for their tax
dollars this is a walk or two i already voted so we're in what committed right dare I ask there were no choices blank did you already vote you voted for
blank write in right in yourself no they did that to me remember i know in case anybody's wondering this is how Nancy ended up on the board of assessors over the first time the first time that's right
and then I ran the second time because I was threatened if I didn't they'd write me in again that's right anyway might as well put your name out there m chairman I move that we approve the uh list of abatements for real estate electric
district in the amount of $23.73 i second that motion made and seconded any discussion all in favor all right water same thing water i think I did water but I don't think it
matters i did water i supposed to be water and electric but I did [Music] electric and I move that we approve the monthly list of abatements real estate this is the water district uh Titan water district in the amount of $31218
i second that motion motion made and seconded any discussion hearing none all in favor i I So there's nothing for fire so there's none on that K line no off okay i just
put it just in case that would only be if that the abatement person was in the district this is one we've already done yeah you've already signed off on that just I move that we approve the uh personal property abatement
list April 1st $5,458.38 i second that motion motion made and seconded any discussion hearing none all in favor i I I Okay so that's all new business
moving on to public input usual there's a giant crowd here do we have uh do we have many more of these to do i mean um abatements we had about 27 we haven't done many so
I have a bunch i mean there's a lot of lists and names no public any correspondence but that's abatements those are ones that we a couple that we already went through off okay all right okay i'm trying to find Okay so moving on no public input do we have any
correspondence um I talked to Dan from DDIC um I don't know where you want it to i'm just looking for I printed out some emails so Dan do you have Dan's contact i want to talk to Dan um I can get it for you i don't have it on Well
it's probably on my emails but might have got it to me i wanted to talk to Is that going to make it on the ballot by the way is that going to make it on the Tom warrant tom warrant they said it would be that's what he was discussing with me um he wanted to know if we were
still on board with putting the small commercial exemp and then he um I'm looking for old emails that he sent cuz it told us cuz he was thinking
maybe um the town would if it if you we did it at 2500 for the exemption just to for it not to get um you know everyone not Yeah i I don't think anybody would reject it the way
the town is right now is But but didn't we say we were going to go with 10 grand the maximum you were going to go to the max like 10 grand because otherwise we'd have to go back i'd want to go We only want to go to 2500 that's Nobody who's has no idea i'll probably find it it's
probably still on the print i think you need to tell them we're set to go back with what we present i was just feeling like that at the 2500 mark it kind of breaks even where nobody's going to fit under that yeah who's going to get an exemption at $1,900 for a homebased business not only
that they're probably if that eventually Do you have a computer and a Yeah but people probably But people probably aren't even on the list yeah but I could spend $2,500 on a MacBook no problem and now I don't fit i agree you know what I'm saying i just I just wanted to bring
And then a printer a color printer and what if you're doing embroidery on something i mean this machine alone is going to cost you three grand yeah tell Dan yeah tell him I understand we're going to go we understand he wants it to be approved and he wants the best possibility for improvement we
get that so explain that but we think 10 grand is better because it's going to more people into that bubble and and probably spur more not only that it's going to help everybody who is at 2500 because it's up to Yeah i mean not
to exceed pick a number but it's 10,000 we don't want people to come back and do this repeatedly and and going back to town meeting and changing the amount and it goes to 5,000 and it goes to 10 right i'm just I'm sure his concern is it being
I do not foresee any resistance to this so you don't think that when they say that's $7,000 that the town isn't going to make that is what the the amount is based on what we have on the books $7,000 taxable versus is what revenue
what 20 million it's it's nothing we want to yeah we want to spur people to start and grow eventually we want them to have more than 20 million we want to promote them to get started grow their business and then get into the bracket of over 10,000
and I said that you would be there yes this time so um yeah so to discuss and we can have the paperwork you know that we had last time or okay Well I I suppose I can be under public input i was thinking on anticipated items but I
wasn't going to ask about that um we have to put that forward as well as the um veteran exemption so I don't know who is in charge of the veteran that's why I'm asking yes who's our veteran agent
ray H ray is I mean we kind of came together to to want the hero act on I mean we kind of collaborated with it but I don't know who is the one i think when we kind of talked about it like I'm
not sure who is supposed to be the one saying how much tell him we want a number from him well he wants the max he wants it to go up from 1,000 to 2,000 he wants all the vets to go up to 2,000 everyone doubled
up right okay but I'm more I I don't think anybody disagrees with that i think that um the point is what is the mechanics of it who's going to draft it who's going to post it who's going to present it at town meeting um you know I
will gladly stand for both of these um I get the um ask him if he knows what towns have done it because you can get a warrant article from them and make it fit for hours that way you'll have kind of new so I'm sure everyone's been
calling us about it oh well then Ray needs to do some homework and he knows lots of people and just find out a community that's accepted it send us the warrant article so we get the wording okay
okay yeah cuz it's percentages so I think it he wants it 100% so that would be it doubled what it is okay so if you could just let me know what I need to do you know and cuz I don't want to drop the ball on this this here like I did
all you got to do is show up and stay there but I want to make sure that the articles are actually presented and on the warrant and then we'll get together on some of that um pros and cons and that sort of thing okay um how much time do we have we have until what may
something to get stuff on the No no I don't know uh I'm thinking it's closes in April yeah I think so because Yeah the thing to do is would you let Karen or Leanne know you got two
placeholders even if they say "Well we got that one from the fall thing." Yeah we want that one but then there's the the uh the veterans exemption so you get the DDIC thing and this veterans thing the hero act mhm um is that So there are
two all right and say "Please put a note in the file because we're getting the wording for the veterans article." Okay because as soon as they usually call me in on it because they did last time to look it over in the wording it
was like collaborative collaborative yeah yeah but I'm saying to you as soon as Brook Street said they wanted that pilot agreement again I said "Please put a note in the file." That means it's going to be on the warrant it's the exact same war oh yeah i was I always
did that way back when put a note in the file we got to ask if they want this thing on the warrant if you hear something somebody says "Well maybe we should consider uh having an article blah blah blah." And I'd say "Just put a note in the file when we're putting this thing together we'll ask before it
closes do you still want that and by the way we need language okay but just let let them know um DDIC and let which is exactly what we had in the fall and that we're trying to get the language for the the uh veterans
uh act okay but put a note in the file because we're planning to bring it forward yeah even if we aren't the ones that present it tell them we want it on there okay yep okay um do you have any minutes no I didn't send them to Nancy i thought I
did i didn't any other unanticipated items i don't think so we didn't see that coming take entertain motion to entertain i will entertain a motion to enter into
executive session mr chairman I move that we go into executive session under the provisions of Massachusetts General Law Chapter 3A section 21 A7 to comply with or act under the authority of any special law of federal grant in 8 i
second that motion motion made second any discussion hearing none all in favor i I and we shall not be returning to open session thank you very much everybody have a good day