10/18/2006 BOARD OF ASSESSORS Minutes

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TOWN of I ASHPE BOARD OF ASSESSORS Minutes of the Meeting of Wednesday, November 15; 2006 Board Members Present: Also Present: Paul Andrews, Chairman Tony Podlesney, Assistant Assessor Sheldon Holzer, Clerk Jason Streebel– Public Member Chairman Paul Andrews called the meeting to order at 5:45 p.m. REVIEW of MINUTES of OCTOBER 18, 2006 The Board unanimously approved the minutes from the BOA meeting held on 10/18/06. BOARD of ASSESSORS REPORT Paul Andrews, Chairman, read Jason streebeI's-October 25, 2008 letter resigning gr�ing frorrr this Board. This Board regretfully accepts the resignation and congratulates Jason on his appointment as Mash eels Director of Assessing, effective November 20th. A copyof Jason's resignation letter is attached to the p . printed set of these minutes. ` Sheldon Holzer–No Report. ASSESSORS REPORT ` 1. Brace Anderson Interim Director of Ase Paul Andrews read a timetable report received from Bruce Anderson as follows: November 1 –Paul Kapinos will be finished with his machinations of the database and will return it,to us for entry into the appropriate forms for submittal to the DOR. 0 November 20–Jason Streebel will begin as Mashpe 's Director of Assessing. 0 November 27–Classification Hearing with the Board of Selectmen and the Water District. * November 28–submit the completed hard copy documentation of the recap sheets to the Department of Revenue. BOA members Paul Andrews and Sheldon Holzer to sign original Recap sheets. November 29–Bruce Anderson's last day. . Classification Hearia . –Jason Streebel asked for permission as a public member to address the Board. He stated that for the November 2 classification Hearing he was asking this Board for recommendations on 3 issues for him to offer to the Board of Selectmen—namely: 1. Does town choos e to spirt tai rate or keep same single tax rate for both commercial and residential properties. 2. Does town wish to residential exemption. . 3. Does town wish to offer smell business exemption. He said the Hater District Commission wound also Grote on the same thing. g He§aid classification Hearing is when town opens public hea6ng to decide whether to. lit or keep same P tax rate for all classes of property. He said up to this pint lahpee has kept one rate for both commercial and residential properties. Jason distributed a copy of a flow chart to show what happens when a town chooses to do all three. In reviewingppe the flow chart it shows l�o�+ complicated it can get. .Jason noted that most boards suggest not having separate classification.