1/25/2007 BOARD OF ASSESSORS Minutes

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t� ry Paul Andrews recommended that a warrant for the stipend funding be drawn tip by the Assessing Office. Paul asked that Jason Streebel ensure that all the background information material endorsing the stipend, that was provided to the Town Manager in the past, be provided to each Selectman on the Board as well as the Finance Connmi tee. Jason Streebel agreed to write up a warrant and will pull together a packet of information for review by the Board of Assessors at the next YOA meeting. DIRECTOR of ASSESSING REPORT. 1. Local Tax Exemptions for Veterans. Jason Streebel distributed copies of a bulletin, prepared b the Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue Division of Local Services, on the subject of Local Tax Exempbons. for Veterans. There have been some charges in the law. Changes to the law include full exemption, retroactive five years, for anyone who died after 9/1112001. It also now provides National Guard and Reservists extra Ume to pay their taxes without interest or penalties. ` 2. Assessor's office Update. Jason Streebel reported that work boots, some shirts, a jacket and a gest with the Town logo had been purchased for Sue Laborne, the Assessing office Property Lister, so that she can be identified by people when out in the field. The items were purchased with funds from the regular supply budget, as a uniform budget increase was not approved by the Town. The Assessing Office has just one Town car,.a 4-door.Jeep, for use by the department. . Conversation with Town Attorney re: 40-B Affordable Housing. Jason Streebel stated that he had forwarded information to the Board members about his meeting with Counsel on the subject of 40-B Affordable Housing. Anyone with questions about the meeting may contact Jason for more details. . Subdivisdlons for 2008. Jason streebeI reported that all subdivisions for FY rob are done except for Main Street pillage Condos. S. senior Aida. Jason Streebel announced that on Monday, .Jan. 29h, he will be interviewing a new Senior Aide applicant who is interested in working two dams a week in connection with the tax work-off program. OLD BUSINESS. I. Request by.Joe Bank to Reconsider Denied Application for Exemption Jason Streebel distributed to the Board members a packet of background information on the situation involving .Joe Bark and'his application for a Senior Work-Off Tax Exemption for 2008. Included in the package was information obtained from the Dept. of Revenge which defines and differentiates the words domicile and residence,, as follows: residence means living in a particular place, and simply requires bodily presence in a given place; domicile requires bodily presence in that plane, together with an intention to make it ore's legal domicile. A person can maintain several residences but can have only one domicile. The Sen lor Work-Off Exemption program operates through, and is administered by, the Mashpee council on Aging. One of the e A eligibility requirements for the program states that the applicant must be a full time resident of Mashpee. Alar. Bank completed the e A application for the 2006 Property Tax Work-Off y program, stating that he was a Mashpee resident, and was cleared by the e A for the Senior Work-Off ' Exemption program. Mr. Bark completed the required minimum 80 volunteer hours or more in 2008. The Board of Assessors denied Mr. Bank's 2006 application for tax a empbon, based on the informabon obtained from the Assessing Office that Mr. Bank had purchased a home in Florida in 2008 and had registered the Florida address as his residence, thins disqualifying him for the Senior Work-Off tax deduction. In a letter to Jason Streebel dated 12/08/06, Mr. Bank stated that because his intention was not to deceive his residence status within the Town of Mashpee, and because he resides in Mashpee 8 Y months of the year, pays real estate taxes to the Town, and did, after all, perform 84 hours of volunteer service to the Town in 2006, he felt that a reversal of the denial by the BOA of his application for 2008 tax exerripbon would be appropriate, and was requesfing BOA approval of the application. 2