SHELBURNE BOARD OF ASSESSORS
MEETING
MINUTES—APRIL
23, 2007
Called
meeting to order @ 6:00 PM with James Richardson,
Joseph Mattei & Marvin
Peck present
Reviewed
mail.
Signed Sewer Betterment Warrant FY2007.
Signed MV Excise Abatements.
Discussed with Harriet Paine her Small Parcel
Valuation ; Hoyt wants to buy the parcel, but she does not want
to sell to them; Jim R. suggested contacting the Valley Land Trust and
donating the small parcel, if they would even want it; discussed her
house lot that is increasing to 2.0 Acres due to the
surveyed Plan signed FY2007 Actual Real Estate & Property
Warrants.
Reviewed Exemption Reimbursement Form sent to State DOR.
Signed Forest Products Tax Warrant.
Reviewed Plans & Map Changes.
Voted to not send Section 5 Excise bills – Reason
for not sending is that most areAgricultural Use and Town
voted to not change Farm Excise – some
Bills are for other Towns, such as Buckland – will
send to them for Disposition – will
shred the rest.
Discussed Conway’s Proposal to share their
cost of Dam and Power plant appraisal; decided not to share
the cost with them; Roy Bishop will value the dam as part of his revaluation.
New Business: Warrant Petition Articles for the
Town Meeting
- Article 38: To see if the town will vote to prohibit taxation
on nontangible property: ie, views, prime lots, or
other similar nontangible property
Discussed and decided that this was moot item since we don’t
have a view tax
- Article 42 : To see if the Town will adopt a split-tax method
of assessment so that lands in agricultural production (and not under
Chapter 61 protection), and those properties owned by the elderly are
assessed at the lowest possible rate discussed and Jim Richardson stated
that this would not be amenable to the State DOR as this will not be
fair and equitable for all. Farmers
would go to commercial values and Utilities would not be valued
high enough with the split tax rate. Joe Mattei and Marvin
Peck agreed. He
will review the other options already available for the elderly
in order to provide tax relief for them.
- It was agreed that Jim Richardson will speak to these Articles
at Town Meeting.
Next Meeting May 14th.
Adjourned Meeting @ 6:50 PM.
Marvin
C. Peck
Joseph
P. Mattei
James
T. Richardson |
