##VIDEO ID:pKBHzpe5Kog## good morning everyone I call to order the board of assessors meeting on January 15 2025 at 10:09 a.m. uh this is a public meeting being video and audio recorded for cable broadcast and Internet Posting on www.don d.gov and YouTube I'd like this time to call everyone to stand Pledge of Allegiance please I pledge 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 attendance uh bill is here and Nancy is here Eric is absent old business tax status on Brook Street solar um Mr uh chairman I received an email from Amed ahed haes asking if um they agree to sign the pilot agreement if we can take it to town meeting at the June meeting and I did cop you on this correspondence and I wrote back and told them that um I can I've got to know by March the first if they're going to do it secondly um this is it um if I ask the selectman to place it assuming they will place it on the warrant we go to town meeting I don't want this table this will be the third time and I don't want to be in that position and I told him voters do not like to have articles on warrants that get tabled and there's no discussion and they don't know anything about it I also told them the pilot agreement we gave you last fall is the pilot agreement we're not going back and we're not changing anything so this is just a heads up um and when I hear from him um I'll send out an email to the uh board and the select just so you know if this is coming up again or whatever but that's where we are with this excellent okay um tax status on I don't even know what Macs is that's um arjo and um the two the yeah so the good news is the good news on both of these is um they both made the tax roll for the 1 of January MH so their year will begin in July 1st for FY 26 okay all right I thought if you were on January you were in that you were in that year well we're in 25 right now I know that's what I mean I thought that if we hit January 1 you were no because you you'd end up in half a tax year yeah so it's the so July jary 1 we'll start the new F new fiscal year it's kind of like 25's done we're already rolled our books 25 to 26 and everything we're doing now is in 26 even though we're still in 25 but we're doing everything okay growth and everything else is all for 26 and that uh Macs pilot agreement that was approved at just for my edification um I my recollection is that when we issue the tax bills isn't isn't the tax bill based on the owner as of January 1st of so in the current year that we're in wouldn't it be a couple weeks ago or is it based on a year and a couple weeks ago it is so we this tax bill um has anyone that was purchased it before we rolled the books so so you're saying it's a year yeah last so anyone getting a bill right now means they were on the tax roll uh January 1 of of 24 okay okay I didn't realize it I thought it was the the current year I didn't realize it was the prior and and unlike um uh and correct me if I'm wrong on this unlike residents where we get two estimates and then we set the tax rate and get two I'll call them real bills because we have pilot agreements they get builded the quarterly based on that Year's total tax on the payment schedule correct because you don't have to estimate it right so right now I they get the bill the preliminary Bill based off what they paid the previous year so um I think there's another way to do this and I have to look into it but I have to do an omitted and Revis Bill y to Bill them for what is still outstanding because it's never going to be exactly the dollar amount we need to collect from them because it's estimates and whatever else but I think there's a way of doing that I have to um okay find out a little more by the time they get there bill that's due the 1 of May when they pay that bill they would have paid everything on that pilot agreement for the first Year's total taxes okay okay have your pens I motiv abatement Ser disc year 2023 yep love that yeah the guy started sending me emails and I'm like s stuff to Melanie don't I'm not going to be the middleman here passing it off to her because he sent her like 500 one time or something it was crazy and they were all like $5 because it was like a November thing or something crazy Mr chairman I move that we approve the levy of 2023 motor vehicle abatements in the amount of $989 59 cents I step down and second any discussion all in favor I I allos that is for okay Mr chairman I move that we appr appr the levy of 2024 motor vehicle abatements in the amount of $382 21 cents I'll step down in second any discussion all in favor I I Fisco year 2025 exemptions so that is um um that was stuck in the file so that is what was built out that is what we um yeah that's everyone's exemptions that were on the tax bill so these are the ones they'll pay the first of February this is the ones that have exemptions coming off but it got stuck behind something so I didn't give that to you guys the last meeting cuz it was stuck I didn't know was stuck okay uh Mr chairman I move that we approve the levy of 2025 exemptions real estate in the amount of $893 1673 I'll step down second um I'd like to see it premature signage there only half of the first letter so it doesn't count this is literally like every like all the exemptions we we've already approved all of these right yeah in favor I I okay so this is so that was what was put in the system that shows up on the bills this is um a few that came in after that so let still C we still on it's just um so the this is the one it should have been in last meeting yeah why are these later because this they came in after the bills were already inputed they have until April 1st to bring it in so this is the we had way ahead of time before Christmas and then need the ones that came in chairman I move that we approve the levy of 2025 real estate exemptions dated January 14 2025 real estate in the amount of $ 5,448 17 cents step down a second any discussion in favor I I so this actually is not on here um it's the CPA part of that okay I forgot to put it on so I don't know if that's it will be the same now why don't we have the same thing for that first Bunch um we did that was signed off on that was sign yeah it was just this was I don't know grabbed it problem is you didn't have a sticky probably do I oh my God I don't have stickies on any of these there go budget they're gonna start by um Mr chairman I move that we uh approve the levy of 2025 CPA exemptions dat of January 14 2025 any amount of $173 step down in second any discussion uh this so if you have any if you if you're on that list and uh this would be the proportionate amount that when you reduce it by that amount this is the the CPA reduction but you're probably still paying the rest of the CPA that you would build unless you're totally exempt right right okay it's just the proportion yeah okay thank you any more discussion all in favor I I all right so we have the release of yeah we've already done this doing it again because some of the um the way they were combined this is um releasing of chapter land okay we released last week or last time last meeting whatever was on the release the one Whatever had been recorded we released it okay but some of them were under a different book and Page some are some are on it's really screwy the way things are and how things are are released sometimes they weren't all taken out and reput in so the title researcher for this the lawyer was back and forth with us so we needed to release these are the ones that have a different book and Page than yesterday than than what you guys signed off on last time so so this is nothing new no it's we already released it but because it was all under one book in page because that's what it how it was they want us to read that way it has like a clear everything is is released is that what you're saying yeah with reference things on it that's kind of just to keep them all happy so we'll get more money to have that done and okay uh Mr chairman I move that we approv and sign the release of classified forest- agricultural or what cultural D recreational land under chapter 60 is it 68 61a yes 61a um Hun's Hill total amount so we well we got two different ones is it the 58 plus the 30 there two amounts L yeah then it would be okay uh 88 89.3 total Aces step down second any discussion no all in favor I I okay um public input anybody any ghost correspondence no do we have minutes um I don't think no I haven't finished them okay any unanticipated items in that case um this should be quick because n you want to make the motion uh Mr chairman I move that we go into executive session under the provisions of chapter 30A section 21 A7 to comply with a act under the authority of any special law or Federal grant a requirements and this is to discuss uh abatement applications exemption applications and minutes which we don't have the minutes yet I will second that step down second all in favor I I and uh we will not be returning to open session thank you everybody and the time is and time is 10:24 have a nice day everybody