we'll call the meeting to order and roll --------- call julie Julie Bar is present laura from present carol County present vicky Tidman present okay we're going to review and sign the
meeting notes from March 18th 2025 i'll set on the meeting minutes i don't have Yes okay i'll make a motion to approve the minutes as sent to us second
okay all in favor laura Shiffren i julie Buyers yes caroli yes um Julie um Jody just went down to grab the um stuff that we have to sign you guys will probably should make a motion to have the chair sign since you guys
aren't here physically i'll make a motion that the chair may sign um all documents that we vote on in this meeting um on behalf of the board
second all in favor laura Shiffren yes julie Bars yes caroli yes okay okay so do do we have any bills payable well she's just going to get it's all on and she's quick
she is quick holy macker okay so so they just made a motion to have um the chair sign everything okay okay so these are the real estate exemptions okay want me to date it yes please
i'll tell you I've been multitasking so I put a movie on that's okay you don't you only These are the motor vehicle exemptions yes you're multitasking yes i put a movie on and I haven't stopped laughing what are you
watching i know it's called Grownups Too oh and I'm not sure but it's But it's could be a kids movie so okay i I don't like the other stuff it's Yeah too dark for me but this is
wicked funny who who adam Sandler okay he's a nicer Jewish boy but the re the rest of the cast is very mixed and uh and you'll notice I don't know
the names but I recognize some of them so I don't know anybody you get a chance it's a good laugh yeah he's funny um so this is on the We had that one
yeah well you No that's the You guys have to read this oh we gave Carol a lot to do yeah I did sorry no I have this one yeah you have to read that oh that's a different That's a
different thing yeah we're not sign Well you're going to sign it but you have to read it so you guys can vote oh okay on behalf to the board of assessors on behalf of the select board a request is submitted to the board of assessors to release $10,000 from the overlay account to fund the annual board of assessors
warrant article for expenses related to the assessors department periodic inspections and property data verification program sincerely Nelson Mut we need a
motion that you're going to move that you want me to do that well can you do it should you do it i think Julie should do it i think Julie should do it because you probably shouldn't vote on this right oh shoot yeah uh say it again
it's about the uh Go ahead read it again well give me my words you You'll want to make a motion i will make a motion to to release $10,000 release $10,000 of the um overlay
account of the overlay account as requested by the board of selectmen as requested by the board of selectmen to be used to be used to cover the warrant article to cover the warrant article for expenses related for expenses related to the assessor's
department to the assessor's department for periodic inspections for period iotic inspections and property data verification and property data verification i would second it okay okay i feel like we're married now it
was like a vow sort of it's it's not um something that we wanted to do but it is because it's that warrant article that's up every single year for the same thing okay and the the town has absorbed that every
year but we all know what's going on right now and um I believe it was offered is that correct Vicki okay y So much appreciated and that's what it's for and hopefully not have to be done
again here all right okay so now we're going to go do the um Do we vote oh yes oh sorry sorry seconded all in favor
julie Bars yes caroli yes and Laura Shiffron I will abstain same another um application applications so I sent you guys two we have a third one it's a
property personal property it's for Lock Brook Solar and if you'll remember it's kind of like a pilot program but we're not allowed to treat it like a pilot program so I have to work in an assessed value every year before I know what the tax rate is to hope I get to the pilot
amount so every year we have to do some sort of an abatement so that's what this is we have to abate $554.30 to get them down to what the amount for the pilot is y I will make that a motion to be a motion
god I'll make a motion uh that we approve the reduction of the amount from the solar what was it again blackbrook solar blackbrook solar
second okay all in favor laura Shiffren yes julie Bars yes yes so you'll sign right there okay and that was number three right you said that was number three yeah yeah okay
yeah okay so number one um it's a it's a colonial and it's only got two bedrooms and there's no way you can make it into a threebedroom but it's got two and a half baths um and the gentleman tried to
put it on the market about six months ago when he had a a realtor come in and they did a market analysis and felt that the value was about $25,000 less than what we have it assessed for and I'd have to agree there's no way i mean it's
like too many bathrooms and two little bedrooms uh and there's no way you can make the two the one bedroom into two right um I see so it only has a two-bedroom septic it's water right is it a waterfront no
it's not waterfront no and how much no but I mean there's Because Julie if you go into the house you go up the set of stairs there's a bedroom to this side and a bedroom to this side so unless you I mean I guess you could do a lot of structural change and build walls but you'd have to go from one
you'd have to go through one bedroom to get to the other bedroom which you can't do i I couldn't see any way that they could make it into a three bedroom is there something on the de yeah the two-bedroom restriction on the on the deed too oh well that there's the key right there and they can't do any expansion on it so it's not like he
could add anything to make the house bigger to put up yeah so so my recommendation is we better assess that at 4559 i would take it down to what did I have it to 425 which is what he Yeah
what do you do with it though in subsequent years uh well we'll put a we'll put a um uh what do you call it a reduction on it that'll carry forward like a certain percentage like I'll figure out what the percentage would be yeah on the building
and then that would just carry forward keep going with that so he'd still get increases but it would all Yeah on a half acre okay is the restriction because of the like the septic wouldn't be Yeah you can't do because originally it was supposed to
have a garage on it too and then they had to cut the garage out because of the setbacks and Yeah yeah it's a funny shaped lot and Okay yeah that was my question could they build a garage and do like a No nope we can't build
anything else on there okay okay so I'll make a motion to approve what we're calling abatement number two i'm sorry one um to reduce the amount for
this fiscal year this fiscal year yes y to 425 for the assessed value yeah and I second that all in favor julie Buyers yes
laura Shiffren yes carol Hunty yes okay and abatement number two is um a tiny little seasonal camp that was when was it built 1940 and I don't think Oh you know what i have to
excuse I have I'm sorry when I picked it up they were reversed so I was saying property one but it was actually property two and Julie was correct no prop this was property one the one that
we just voted on was property one it was Yeah we dropped from 455 to 425 42 this number two is a small seasonal camp because you're right you're right you're right I'm looking at that now okay I
think you got confused you're all right was waterfront but it's not yeah yeah yeah anyway so I went out and did an inspection and I don't there like we had had it in um good condition and it's really fair condition i mean it's got a
pink sink and it it's system and Yes so yeah so I I would suggest that we draw it was assessed at 196 i would take it down to 1778 that's taking it down to fair condition
yeah I agree so um Laura you do you have anything or Carol no no I I can see why okay all right so I'll make a motion
on abatement for what we're calling number two to reduce the assessed value uh down for this fiscal year down to 1778 second
1778 1778 oh okay so that's less than what they asked for it doesn't make any difference what they asked for it when I put in the fair value card yeah yeah nice yep all in favor julie Buyers yes laura Shiffren
yes carol Lante yes i didn't mean that to come out like that no good good job Vicki that That was correct you were correct nice and I don't know if we did I don't know
if anybody has anything else but that's all we've got oh I didn't have anything else um oh actually no I do lori do you uh are you okay with us writing you in for
what for the election for this this role of assessor board didn't anybody come to talk to you Vicki uh oh no uh oh that was the guy asked glad you asked
just a minute i don't know if I'll get an answer but I did have somebody that was supposed to come and talk to you um well it's too late to pull papers so they're going to have Oh I knew that no no no i knew that um they're going to
have to wait till after well let me get back to you okay i mean I it is it's you know if you're if you're in real estate or you understand what's going on it's easier to like slip into
this fit it in you know what I mean so I asked um someone that I thought and basically just said "It's not really heavy lifting it's stuff you already know you know except for the except for the initial go through this course."
Yeah yes yes yes but the person is already active so in town so the whatever courses we have to take every two years it's already No no not that one the assessor oh the first one that was a bit of a that that was
challenging i had to go to Vicki long time ago oh god yeah that that was a little kicker yeah yeah yeah okay yes I will do that if if nobody
else steps up uh but I am going to make a call and I'll get back to each of you um okay see if that's something that the person would do because yes I forgot about the class before Monday yeah because that class was
wasn't it like almost 40 hours i don't know but it took me a while and I still had to I still had to ask it took me six weeks i did it with Niles Bustler yeah and you had to go fortunately now it's online but it's it's online it's time consuming it is time consuming yeah we
used to go to Lel once a week for six we went to I went to UMass for a week yeah yeah oh yeah huh okay um I I will let you know okay because that that may be a killer
they have a few years to do it right two years to do it yeah two years yeah okay my my problem I I'll tell you straight away is you just do it if you It's available online i started it and
stopped and that was my mistake because I it all like left my head and Yeah and I have a funny feeling it might be one year now that you have to do it in yeah because I feel like we had a person over in Dunable and we got a dunning letter and he had only been there one year and they're like "Well I I'm pretty sure
it's one year now you have to do it within the first year." Yeah and you got to register and you got to keep your ID active oh it's like Yeah yeah yeah well that's the hardest part really getting your passport and everything together we have to do it for our lensure anyway for
like real estate but I mean it's another thing yeah yeah well just remember that I've been doing this since 1981 i remember for the assessors that's a long time okay every time I drive by your building
I remember how long you've been doing it right there in a banner no no no no that's you know that's not the correct year i Yeah I know well for Town Center uh oh we didn't adjourn we didn't adjourn yet yeah we
adjourn oh so everybody's going to know okay um I'll make a motion to adjourn at uh 5:23 p.m second all in favor i Part: 2
we'll call the meeting to order and roll call julie Julie Bar is present laura from present carol County present vicky Tidman present okay we're going to review and sign the
meeting notes from March 18th 2025 i'll set on the meeting minutes i don't have Yes okay i'll make a motion to approve the minutes as sent to us second
okay all in favor laura Shiffren i julie Buyers yes caroli yes um Julie um Jody just went down to grab the um stuff that we have to sign you guys will probably should make a motion to have the chair sign since you guys
aren't here physically i'll make a motion that the chair may sign um all documents that we vote on in this meeting um on behalf of the board
second all in favor laura Shiffren yes julie Bars yes caroli yes okay okay so do do we have any bills payable well she's just going to get it's all on and she's quick
she is quick holy macker okay so so they just made a motion to have um the chair sign everything okay okay so these are the real estate exemptions okay want me to date it yes please
i'll tell you I've been multitasking so I put a movie on that's okay you don't you only These are the motor vehicle exemptions yes you're multitasking yes i put a movie on and I haven't stopped laughing what are you
watching i know it's called Grownups Too oh and I'm not sure but it's But it's could be a kids movie so okay i I don't like the other stuff it's Yeah too dark for me but this is
wicked funny who who adam Sandler okay he's a nicer Jewish boy but the re the rest of the cast is very mixed and uh and you'll notice I don't know
the names but I recognize some of them so I don't know anybody you get a chance it's a good laugh yeah he's funny um so this is on the We had that one
yeah well you No that's the You guys have to read this oh we gave Carol a lot to do yeah I did sorry no I have this one yeah you have to read that oh that's a different That's a
different thing yeah we're not sign Well you're going to sign it but you have to read it so you guys can vote oh okay on behalf to the board of assessors on behalf of the select board a request is submitted to the board of assessors to release $10,000 from the overlay account to fund the annual board of assessors
warrant article for expenses related to the assessors department periodic inspections and property data verification program sincerely Nelson Mut we need a
motion that you're going to move that you want me to do that well can you do it should you do it i think Julie should do it i think Julie should do it because you probably shouldn't vote on this right oh shoot yeah uh say it again
it's about the uh Go ahead read it again well give me my words you You'll want to make a motion i will make a motion to to release $10,000 release $10,000 of the um overlay
account of the overlay account as requested by the board of selectmen as requested by the board of selectmen to be used to be used to cover the warrant article to cover the warrant article for expenses related for expenses related to the assessor's
department to the assessor's department for periodic inspections for period iotic inspections and property data verification and property data verification i would second it okay okay i feel like we're married now it
was like a vow sort of it's it's not um something that we wanted to do but it is because it's that warrant article that's up every single year for the same thing okay and the the town has absorbed that every
year but we all know what's going on right now and um I believe it was offered is that correct Vicki okay y So much appreciated and that's what it's for and hopefully not have to be done
again here all right okay so now we're going to go do the um Do we vote oh yes oh sorry sorry seconded all in favor
julie Bars yes caroli yes and Laura Shiffron I will abstain same another um application applications so I sent you guys two we have a third one it's a
property personal property it's for Lock Brook Solar and if you'll remember it's kind of like a pilot program but we're not allowed to treat it like a pilot program so I have to work in an assessed value every year before I know what the tax rate is to hope I get to the pilot
amount so every year we have to do some sort of an abatement so that's what this is we have to abate $554.30 to get them down to what the amount for the pilot is y I will make that a motion to be a motion
god I'll make a motion uh that we approve the reduction of the amount from the solar what was it again blackbrook solar blackbrook solar
second okay all in favor laura Shiffren yes julie Bars yes yes so you'll sign right there okay and that was number three right you said that was number three yeah yeah okay
yeah okay so number one um it's a it's a colonial and it's only got two bedrooms and there's no way you can make it into a threebedroom but it's got two and a half baths um and the gentleman tried to
put it on the market about six months ago when he had a a realtor come in and they did a market analysis and felt that the value was about $25,000 less than what we have it assessed for and I'd have to agree there's no way i mean it's
like too many bathrooms and two little bedrooms uh and there's no way you can make the two the one bedroom into two right um I see so it only has a two-bedroom septic it's water right is it a waterfront no
it's not waterfront no and how much no but I mean there's Because Julie if you go into the house you go up the set of stairs there's a bedroom to this side and a bedroom to this side so unless you I mean I guess you could do a lot of structural change and build walls but you'd have to go from one
you'd have to go through one bedroom to get to the other bedroom which you can't do i I couldn't see any way that they could make it into a three bedroom is there something on the de yeah the two-bedroom restriction on the on the deed too oh well that there's the key right there and they can't do any expansion on it so it's not like he
could add anything to make the house bigger to put up yeah so so my recommendation is we better assess that at 4559 i would take it down to what did I have it to 425 which is what he Yeah
what do you do with it though in subsequent years uh well we'll put a we'll put a um uh what do you call it a reduction on it that'll carry forward like a certain percentage like I'll figure out what the percentage would be yeah on the building
and then that would just carry forward keep going with that so he'd still get increases but it would all Yeah on a half acre okay is the restriction because of the like the septic wouldn't be Yeah you can't do because originally it was supposed to
have a garage on it too and then they had to cut the garage out because of the setbacks and Yeah yeah it's a funny shaped lot and Okay yeah that was my question could they build a garage and do like a No nope we can't build
anything else on there okay okay so I'll make a motion to approve what we're calling abatement number two i'm sorry one um to reduce the amount for
this fiscal year this fiscal year yes y to 425 for the assessed value yeah and I second that all in favor julie Buyers yes
laura Shiffren yes carol Hunty yes okay and abatement number two is um a tiny little seasonal camp that was when was it built 1940 and I don't think Oh you know what i have to
excuse I have I'm sorry when I picked it up they were reversed so I was saying property one but it was actually property two and Julie was correct no prop this was property one the one that
we just voted on was property one it was Yeah we dropped from 455 to 425 42 this number two is a small seasonal camp because you're right you're right you're right I'm looking at that now okay I
think you got confused you're all right was waterfront but it's not yeah yeah yeah anyway so I went out and did an inspection and I don't there like we had had it in um good condition and it's really fair condition i mean it's got a
pink sink and it it's system and Yes so yeah so I I would suggest that we draw it was assessed at 196 i would take it down to 1778 that's taking it down to fair condition
yeah I agree so um Laura you do you have anything or Carol no no I I can see why okay all right so I'll make a motion
on abatement for what we're calling number two to reduce the assessed value uh down for this fiscal year down to 1778 second
1778 1778 oh okay so that's less than what they asked for it doesn't make any difference what they asked for it when I put in the fair value card yeah yeah nice yep all in favor julie Buyers yes laura Shiffren
yes carol Lante yes i didn't mean that to come out like that no good good job Vicki that That was correct you were correct nice and I don't know if we did I don't know
if anybody has anything else but that's all we've got oh I didn't have anything else um oh actually no I do lori do you uh are you okay with us writing you in for
what for the election for this this role of assessor board didn't anybody come to talk to you Vicki uh oh no uh oh that was the guy asked glad you asked
just a minute i don't know if I'll get an answer but I did have somebody that was supposed to come and talk to you um well it's too late to pull papers so they're going to have Oh I knew that no no no i knew that um they're going to
have to wait till after well let me get back to you okay i mean I it is it's you know if you're if you're in real estate or you understand what's going on it's easier to like slip into
this fit it in you know what I mean so I asked um someone that I thought and basically just said "It's not really heavy lifting it's stuff you already know you know except for the except for the initial go through this course."
Yeah yes yes yes but the person is already active so in town so the whatever courses we have to take every two years it's already No no not that one the assessor oh the first one that was a bit of a that that was
challenging i had to go to Vicki long time ago oh god yeah that that was a little kicker yeah yeah yeah okay yes I will do that if if nobody
else steps up uh but I am going to make a call and I'll get back to each of you um okay see if that's something that the person would do because yes I forgot about the class before Monday yeah because that class was
wasn't it like almost 40 hours i don't know but it took me a while and I still had to I still had to ask it took me six weeks i did it with Niles Bustler yeah and you had to go fortunately now it's online but it's it's online it's time consuming it is time consuming yeah we
used to go to Lel once a week for six we went to I went to UMass for a week yeah yeah oh yeah huh okay um I I will let you know okay because that that may be a killer
they have a few years to do it right two years to do it yeah two years yeah okay my my problem I I'll tell you straight away is you just do it if you It's available online i started it and
stopped and that was my mistake because I it all like left my head and Yeah and I have a funny feeling it might be one year now that you have to do it in yeah because I feel like we had a person over in Dunable and we got a dunning letter and he had only been there one year and they're like "Well I I'm pretty sure
it's one year now you have to do it within the first year." Yeah and you got to register and you got to keep your ID active oh it's like Yeah yeah yeah well that's the hardest part really getting your passport and everything together we have to do it for our lensure anyway for
like real estate but I mean it's another thing yeah yeah well just remember that I've been doing this since 1981 i remember for the assessors that's a long time okay every time I drive by your building
I remember how long you've been doing it right there in a banner no no no no that's you know that's not the correct year i Yeah I know well for Town Center uh oh we didn't adjourn we didn't adjourn yet yeah we
adjourn oh so everybody's going to know okay um I'll make a motion to adjourn at uh 5:23 p.m second all in favor i