2/15/2007 BOARD OF ASSESSORS Minutes

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a TOWN OF BOARD of ASSESSORS minutes of the meeting of Thursday Febr nary Board Members Present: Also Present: , Paul Andrews, Chairman Jason Streebel, Director of A Sheldon Holzer, Vice Chairman Assessing Gregg Fraser, Clerk Chairman Paul Andrews called the meeting to order at 6:33 PM. REVIEW of MINUTES Sheldon Holzer made a motion that the Board approve as submit# 2Paul An�rers seconde pP ed the minutes from January 25th, d the motion. All approved. BOARD of ASSESSORS REPORTS No reports. DIRIECTOR of ASSESSING REPORT—Jason Streebel 1. Form of Lists Mailing' . Jason Streebel reported that the Assessing tie Form of Lists with a coyer lett office has been sending cut letter to all second-home property Avner . The Form of Lists information is used to calculate personal property tax bills. The furniture where the owner f not domiciled full f'r+ and fixture of am home e become taxable. The Ma tepee Assessing office has never before sent these letters out. Mason stated that 3500 letters are to be m . that he had been made aware that i is+a ' ailed. ,Jason stated further pain t Town policy to send out any mass mailings without prior approval bar the Board of Selectmen. Jason plans to attend the"In . meeting to gain approval for the mailing. et Board Selectman s . The Board of Assessors i not required to mail out the Form of Lists. Rather, it is'the responsibility of the taxpayers torovide thi Office. Jason �treebel stated that h p s information # the Assessing e i doing it this year, and incurring the expense of the mailing, because the Dept. of Revenue is requiring that Assessors do a stud between the items been taxed and the b �I as to the relationship and value building value in order-to determine the correct percentage of the value of the personal property. The current percentage being used .Jason stated that he will be wor�Cir� ed �s �� o the building value.on this study in the coming months. . Baja Pont LLD Disputed FY '07 Tac BiJJ. Jason Strobl reported that he had contacted Nis. Kathleen Colleary, Bureaux chief of Municipal Finance Law Dl islo well a llashpee's Town oc�r�sel � rr of Local Servicesin Boston, a to request an opinion on the following situation. On 12/15/06 the New Seabury Pool Villas at the Mews cndomin.�ur� Association sold acres of its common land to Bay Point LLC for$1,308,000. This original g 1'l-acreparcel was subdivided by the Assessing Office prematurely in .June of 2006, based on a land courtlan acre parcel was created under the above-named p but no deed, new B s ed Condominium Association and was assessed for 3r9 , 00. The 4.58 acre parcel did not receive an FY '06 tax � for F , which was mailed to h bill but did receive an Actual Tax Bill the cordo association as owners, who forwarded the tax bill to Ba Point LLD. Baypoint received the tax bill after the deadline for FY'07 filed. abatement applications # be Bay Point has claimed the following points: there had been no previous fiscal gear tax bil Is nor an prelim FY'off therefore they had no wayof anticipating' � r tax bills issued and receipt of a tax bill the assessment Is far in excess of the purchase price the tax bill was mailed to the wrong addreseelowner