Tthe assessing office is not processing any these same family commercial businesses to
present to the board. These should not all be deemed denied. Our commercial
assessors do so little on these applications, that I really believe that portion of the office
should be outsourced. I simply do not understand why the job cannot get done and why
taxpayers pay hundreds of thousands of doilars into this office.
In past years, the assessing office produced an abatement list that shows the assessor
assigned to each abatement. I have received this list for 3 years. I have asked for a list
for over 2 weeks now and have received no response. Citizens keep calling the assessing
office to find out who has their application and why no one has contacted them. Every
Property owner should know who was processing their abatement by early March.
I am acting as the representative for the property abatements for two senior citizen
applications in Trestlebrook. These were the applications I carried into city hall on
January 22, 2021 and attempted to get date time stamped. The city refused to provide
the stamp and I stayed in City Hall to get these applications stamped. This resulted in
my arrest in February. These applications were emailed to the City on January 17, 2021
and January 20, 2021. Rick Vincent claimed that emails were never received. The City is
unwilling to explain why these emails were missing. After waiting many weeks, Mr.
Vincent date time stamped the applications "January 22, 2021",
I have been waiting 5 months for someone to call me on these applications. No one has
called. The property owners have contacted me wondering what is going on; I have no
answers. I wrote the assessing office to find out what was happening with
these applications and who they were assigned to, no one responded. I called the
Assessing office on June 23, 2021 and asked the name of the assessor who was
assigned the applications, I was placed on hold, and told that someone would have to
get back to me. No one did.
It makes me angry when Senior Citizens are screwed over and as a representative, I can
not do anything about this. There were about 8 homes in Trestblebrook that applied for
abatements and were in need of review. The practice of the assessing office has been to
take groups of properties from the same neighborhood and process them quickly. The
assessor did this last month with a 55 and over ‘Slattery’ South Nashua new
development and another new development. These were part of the 35 all processed
and taken to the Board. What is concerning here is that Trestlebrook was the first group
I worked with and they are pushed off to be processed last.
I hate to see folks that may have experienced more financial hardship pushed off over
other applications that came after them. This frustrates me. Don't you think these
property owners might like a $1000 refund check for their summer?
There is simply no reason why I should not be able to know who was assigned these
abatements for these two senior citizens. The office continues to refuse to provide
information to me that other citizens can obtain. The office has had these applications
for 5 months. Please consider shutting that office down. The price we pay to be
disregarded and disrespected is simply unacceptable.
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