right good afternoon welcome to the board of assessors meeting Wednesday March 26 at 4:30 we're located at 382 North Main Street second floor uh in attendance today is uh board member Marilyn gini chairman Martin
gradate director Diane bishop and assistant director K Anne wiel that's with a K so in accordance with mgl chapter 38 section 20 I required to ask anyone uh elcat is taping our meeting and no one else is here with the public and we
also tape our own meetings so we have a review from the minutes of February 19th from Marilyn gini Mr chairman I have reviewed the minutes from our meeting of the 19th of February I find them to be in order and move that they be
accepted um I'll make a motion to accept I will second that all those in favor I uh for Open Session we'll start out with some warrants 2025 M motor people excise commitment warn amount of
32658 289 make sure I have these in order here they should be okay and a fiscal 25 omitted personal property warrant in amount of 59,6 5898
my eyes are me for some reason um couple reports motor vehicle excise abatement for 3 years 23 24 25 and the amount of 12,133 and.
75 it's a lot well it's three years I guess normal um is that normal K in say yes okay thank you Ken well with the first being the first commitment there was a lot of abatements oh okay
it's cuz people bought new vehicles gotcha uh fiscal 25 rail State exemption for February and amount to 14,000 with $140 going to CPA these are all together now
can't use my it's paper and oh I see where that one uh fiscal 25 real EST estate baitman for February amount of 6,613 and99 with a CPA 4973 [Music]
and notice accountant for all that month of March 356 58 289 and there is a typ v on the agenda because we just added the omitted personal property warrant so I
see the different amount there yeah the notice is correct the warrant did not get reported yeah the highlighted om Omission okay great and we have our la3 sales report which consisted of five arms link sales
for February amazing H this the smallest sales report that I most them were transfers for a dollar or $100 never seen as the least amount uh C the least amount of listing
I've ever seen currently m um I had to do a report so Isa Meadow hamon La Meadow wlam was a total of 32 listings for four towns on Monday oh and since then it's gone up about 10 one
town has 6 11 10 and 9 crazy that is hton six I think so yeah hon might have been four yep uh yeah that's it any questions on the sale those five sales Maryland
nope looks like three four residential and one commercial yeah looks pretty not much to comment on that okay uh building report for the month of February Diane will tell us how many new
homes there is one new home and now three year to date okay let's go let's get those homes finished in all actuality we can call it two new homes because the fourth one down that says demolition they're demoing the
house to rebuild the house it's fire damage so that will result in another home not even permits a many permits for solar insulation oh the instulation Mass Save is being hit hard so we'll see what
happens they were a great deal but now their budget just got oh really cut in half I believe annihilated um okay we have director's
report from Diane Bishop okay so we have recently sent out our FY 26 income and expense forms they were mailed to all commercial and Industrial Real Property Owners and it's really important if the
property owners can provide the best information uh as we are trying to determine fair and Equitable assessments for all of our commercial and business properties uh they were sent out honor about uh March 14th and they are due
within 60 days or honor about May 15th and there is a penalty um for failing to file this um or to resubmit this uh expense form back in an fiscal 26 form
of lists and three ABC forms the deadline was March 3rd this year and if there isn't a taxpayer who has not filed their form and they need an extension to please give the office a call and we will be happy to give them a little bit
more time to submit these required forms uh fiscal um let me go calendar year 25 vehicle excise the assessors just signed off on commitment two and they're anticipated to be mailed out on
April 4th and due back on May 5th uh cyclical inspection program is now um actively happening uh beginning March 25th our inspections um began with our data
collector being out in the field there are approximately 500 homes that are scheduled for review and each person did receive a letter if their home was up for review we have received a few phone calls you know with
questions and concerns that people all have and we've been able to address each and everyone the inspections are going to be taking place over the next few months and when the data collector does come
out to the property they will knock at your door they will ask if if it's a a time that they could do an interior inspection or at least get the information regarding the interior inspection they will then go around the outside measure the home and take a
picture of the property they he does have Town identification and he has signs for his car saying Board of assessors and the police have been notified so how many are there of them 500 how are those now
of inspectors that's why it's going to take a couple of months to okay how long does it take for them to do a property if they go inside well it depends how much a person talks to them okay you know I want to give someone a heads up just in case it I always say it should not take any
longer than 15 minutes if I was to go out and and do an interior exterior inspection shouldn't take more than 15 minutes right sometimes I can be there an hour because people talk about everything so someone else can talk
pretty good too how are the 500 picked by date of last inspection or just by date of last inspection in the area of the Town what we're trying to do is look at one section of town and then see
which of those properties have not been visited within that 10-year period so and keran is doing a phenomenal job it will allow us to get more inspections done in a limited time time because
before they were going all over long so by having them right now we are in the northwest corner of the town so if you're looking at this map we started at the very top leftand corner
and now we're shifting down a little but in that very busy area uh where there older homes and they're very close together so there were a lot of homes and we're just going to keep working on Way section by section over the 10e
period and then we just start all over again I know they hit rers road I believe did they yep okay well we know he is out and doing his thing um and
then um the proposed local options um at our last board meeting uh held on the 19th the board voted to recommend to the Town Council um clause 22j and also to do an amendment to Clause
22c to see if we were able to have the um the means the town have the means to 41 C 41 C what I just said 22 C oh sorry to make sure 22s are so on my mind 22 J
and 41 C so 22j we're looking to see if we can increase the exemption upward of 100% along with 41c but because the assessors did not have the knowledge of the available
funding we proposed that um I did attend their meeting last night and gave them all of the information and they have tabled it until the budget is more um ready to determine if there is room in
our budget they're anticipating hopefully April 22nd to revisit this but if not it'll be at one of their their next meetings and I can't tell if I have anymore and that's about it that's what
I have okay one thing we didn't discuss when our next meeting will be so um at our last meeting we had discussed knowing that we have to deal with batement that we were talking April 30th
okay and I believe that Marilyn said she is unavailable but Hayden said he was available okay so Aruba Asheville North Carolina okay we're supposed to go the weekend after the hurricane and that
kind of oh yeah that's right tables okay April 30th all right April 30th yes all right I believe that's it for Open Session uh I can take a roll call F soon to go into executive session to discuss
motor vehicle excise and boat abatements fiscal 25 exemption applications some abatement applications uh personal property issue and an ATB update and we'll re turn to open session record our votes take a
roll call vote Marilyn gini yes Martin gon yes