you're on mute hey it worked yes I'm going to turn off my phone April yeah my phone's still on wa a minute April's text uh texted me a while
a few minutes ago and said she's driving home she may be a little late she didn't say go ahead without me but she didn't say not to either I didn't want to bug her while she was
driving well we have a uh sure let's open okay she's here oh she's here is what she said yeah she is I just let her in oh okay fine fine still in work mode April you're
okay and muted I made it hey David are you muted is David muted David muted yes deliberately we can yell at him when on when it's okay uh okay fine
[Music] um sorry um okay I'm gonna open the meeting um attending the meeting are uh board members George aritis and April Stein
chairman Howard spetner uh assessors clerk Leslie Bracebridge and administrative assessor David Burgess um the first item on the agenda is to review and approve the minutes of the January 15th meeting um has everybody
had a chance to see those yes yes thank you okay and did any anybody have any questions or comments about them no okay they look good nice job yeah yeah they were they were really nice actually thank you um okay um I move
that we uh accept and approve the meeting the minutes I'll second that okay I vote I or I and Stein I okay uh the motion passes the second um item on the agenda is to review and approve the
monthly accountant reports um we have three from January and four from February um a couple of them we have to put off until later in the meeting but the three from January uh I'm sorry I have these
written down so uh the real estate uh account report has nothing on it the CPA report has nothing on it the motor vehicle has uh two entries on it uh they're basically just plate transfers uh then there are the Feb so
that's three then there are the February accountant reports on the motor vehicle one is huge because it has all the ones uh for the the vehicles that the town of shutesbury owns plus one for Sirius plus one for the State plus one that's just a
regular one um the CPA uh has seven or seven entries uh people that are eligible for the CPA abatements um does anybody so those five we can approve now does does anybody
have any questions or comments about any of those you're not no okay so uh I move that we approve that we approve those five accountant reports that's second okay Les you okay
with this we're doing in peace meal no that's fine I'm when I didn't realize I know you're waiting for the exemptions until they're approved and I I understand the order you're doing I'll probably just bulk them all in this one
no okay it number two three okay right okay okay so um I'm we didn't vote on this yet did we I no I'm kind of tired okay you just summarized them yeah you
did good you're good you're good I'm trying I'm trying I'm trying okay um I move that we uh approve those five accountant reports oh second and I'll third okay I vote I I arantis and Stein
I okay the motion passes uh the next item on the agenda are uh two motor two motor vehicle commitments uh we have the last one the seventh one from calendar year 2024 and
we have the first one the big one for calendar year 2025 uh anybody have any comments or questions about those can we make them bigger no you're fine fine fine fine that's right qu by
you all right yeah maybe I'll talk to my wife yeah wow okay uh I move that we approve the motor vehicle commitments and I'll second okay I vote I Artis I in Stein I okay um the next item on the
agenda are the real estate tax and community and CPA search charge abatements um we got one application in uh for this year for February 1 and what that that's on one of the account the
February um real estate account report and what that is um for some people if you've looked at it then you know and if you haven't you don't um Kathleen lugos um owns some property
on suar Mountain Road that she bought uh sometime in 2023 and that property it has no has no structures on it at all it's just land it's close to her house
um that that property has had a um a conservation restriction on it since 2017 so the previous owner uh was taxed at the reduced rate David can you explain that just how do how do taxes
work when there's a conservation restriction How is how's the reduction figured out we're just going to valate the same if it was not buildable I'm sorry it's the same it's the same as any land that's not buildable yeah so like the four like I
have four I have five total acres of land on my property and I'm taxed one acre is taxed as a building lot and the other the other four are reduced yes same as the same as those four yeah okay thanks
um so what's going on here is um she got a tax bill um I'm assuming it was her third quarter tax bill for fy2 and um she was taxed as though it were a building lot right okay and it should
not have been okay so David figured out what the reduction should be and that's what's on the accountant report actually and that's what we need to approve we need to approve that abatement okay anything unclear about any of this any
questions no that makes perfect sense okay so we're okay so I move that we approve the abatement I'll second and third okay I vote your turn I can't I thought I
forgot okay oh okay I I vote I and Stein I okay that motion passed I also move that we approve the accountant report I'll second okay I vote I I and
Stein I the motion passes um the next item on the agenda are uh the personal exemptions that are on um the February accountant report we everybody got one it says personal exemptions there are I
think four on there got right uh okay but there I think three of three are veterans and one is a senior exemption okay uh any questions about
those no no pretty straightforward yes okay um I move that we accept that we approve the exemptions uh second I vote I I and Stein I okay and I move that we approve the accountant
report I'll SEC yeah and okay I vote I ARB I and Stein I okay Leslie can I group can I Bunch those in the future yeah I think we're done for this year I think everybody unless somebody
new comes in and says gee I hope I can qualify and they do but right all of the ones that we anticipated have been approved now okay when when we vote on them can I can I can we vote on the uh the exemption in the accountant report at the same time is that okay oh I see
what you're saying well in my mind I I have a hard time keeping up with the switches in my mind on the agenda the accountant reports were all item number three and I'm just
going to write in in number three in the minutes that they were all approved and then uh when we get to the um the diff the other items that you've just reviewed uh that's approving them
individually as opposed to the accountant reports if that's okay with people I I'm getting yeah it's a little yeah that's fine I don't care I think some of them got approved twice in this method and better twice than not at all yeah okay um the next item on the agenda
are the chapter 61 61a and 61b uh those are exemptions sorry these are this is a you likely read in the paper that Cole sold a big parcel of land in three
different towns to a company called lime quab and LLC so we have to approve the lean release of this parcel which is U1 from Kohl's we got to release the the
towns lean against CO's for U1 and then we've created a new lease against lime quab and LLC for you 11 okay is that all we have to do tonight
on chapter 61 just just those okay so um everybody get that any questions about what Leslie just told us no that Mak sense no and I'm familiar with the transaction it's been in the news yeah okay
okay so I move that we approve the uh lean release for Kohl's second okay okay I vot I Aran I I and Stein I okay and I move that we approve the new lean for lime is
that the company lime cab and LLC that we approve the the new lean for lime quab and LLC a second okay I vote I say and Stein I okay um next item topics not reasonably
anticipated 40 hour 48 hours in advance Leslie anything I have nothing okay okay fine um we need to schedule the next meeting oh we set a record
yes well in response to Leslie's email I'm okay with you know not meeting on the third Wednesdays of each month right you said there's potential conflict with that it's very slight it's easier if we just work around it if if not if that's
the date that only works and we have some driven business that has to occur I'll just email Gail Huntress who's the chairman of the Broadband MLP committee and ask her Steve Schmidt who's also on the committee just stopped into because
he was previously an assessor just yesterday and was talking with me and Gabe and he said we're usually done in an hour so I I don't think problem yeah but it's better just to keep it as clean as we can yeah well the second weekend
would be the 12th of March which would work for me wait a minute not the 12 oh Les St right it has to be uh the 26th or April 2nd uh 26 wouldn't work for me
the well or March 19th I mean if you're not worried about you know if we don't think we're gonna have a conflict with the other committee question I'm not sure that there's a need to me to March David do you have a need I don't know the there's nothing exciting happening
ah yeah we only want exciting things likely to have some motor vehicle access batment and they can wait until April right okay so there's April 2nd 9 16 is the
third one 23 and 30 23 is out out yeah okay how about how's out how's April the 2nd that's fine with me works for me it should be okay there I may have a conflict but I'll say yes for
now okay how when do you when when do you think I know well would the ninth work the ninth would be better for me I have a I have a situation okay my situation my situation is that every other Wednesday is out for me okay so would either be that or the 16th and the
16 it's soon enough too what did you say April 30 is soon enough it's just yeah work for me I'm out of town okay okay the 30th does not work
for you 16th works for me won work or the 2 16th is the 16th is the third is the third Wednesday yes yeah I don't know like Leslie said it doesn't sound like it's a real risk if we finished in 15 minutes tonight I think we're okay oh okay oh it's them
that we have finishing yes yeah so I mean if we start I mean if we start a little late you know if if we knew about it in advance you know I me if we knew in ADV we could start a little later when that's right and in fact the matter is
you you'd go in and you just be watching their meeting until they hung up is that how it works I think so yeah because we're all going into the same right mean we would like actually log into their we would we would join their meeting yeah which is okay it's an open meeting I
mean we have every right they won't mind they'll understand they already know the situation so it's not going to be a problem do they have to let us in or just but came up you we would all just go to
the Broadband meeting link instead of our own George is that yeah we didn't well we can click on ours but it would put us in their meeting oh really their meeting would still be active I got on the same login as us that's what I believe would happen yeah that's what
has happened in the past with things oh really yeah yeah and again it's a public meeting so Gail's going to let everybody in right okay and if she doesn't let us in that could be exciting aspect of the meeting you know you know watch your bu and argue
over something we can just tell them to hurry up I mean that's right this is this is like really boring guys like got work to do so the next meeting is April 16th at
6:30 pm perfect yep works for me perfect somebody somebody could check with Gail like just you know and just see what that meeting looks like no don't bother don't bother I okay when well Howard when people log in they're going to see
that there's a meeting behind them gaale knows if it's the assessors the board of assessors that it's going to be using the same login yeah okay fine it's on the calendar this meeting calendar okay I it doesn't sound like to be a
problem they called me c what what was that anybody know what that was that's allor right I just some on the background here okay fine just okay just as long as okay long as it's okay so um
we're all set um we've set another glorious record for a short meeting um yeah say going to have to get along without Leslie for three weeks it's it's fine it's fine everything's in order I'm sure I no okay
we know you would make sure everything's in order before you David has all the files with green Clips on them in case anybody asks any questions everything's summarized where we're at I remember when I was a manager and I had an employee going on a vacation it's like
okay hopefully nothing will go wrong worry that I I just let it happen that's the spirit all right okay Leslie I hope you have a good vacation thank you very much Wonder thank you very much I'm sure that
um you'll be just fine okay I'll see you Tom FR yep okay um I move that we adjourn the meeting I'll second I vote I and Stein I okay take care everyone
good night every good night