Laurie Ortolano
41 Berkeley St
Nashua, NH 03064
603-930-2853
“Please provide me with a copy of the spreadsheet listing all the PILOTS with their taxable
assessed value and what they were each taxed for 2021 (in tax dollars).”
On March 15, 2021, Attorney Neumann, our new Right-to-Know legal coordinator, responded for the
Nashua Legal Department on behalf of the Assessing Office:
“The Chief Assessor and the Assessing Department have searched their files and have not found
any documents matching the above description.”
Mrs. Colquhoun then spoke with the former Assessing Clerk, Ms. Cheryl Walley and Ms. Walley explained
there was, in fact, an excel spreadsheet that she updated when she worked in the assessing office. Ms.
Walley provided Mrs. Colquhoun with details of the spreadsheet.
On March 16, 2021, Ms. Colquhoun resubmitted the request written as follows:
“please provide me with a list of properties on which their property taxes are based on RSA 72:73K
or RS 72:23 -n. This list should show the amount paid in 2020 for property taxes and an
explanation of how the property taxes were calculated. Some of these properties are managed by
Southern NH Service and HINEC., like Will St. & 110 Coliseum Ave., the elderly condos and
Temple St. This information is within the Assessing Department.”
On March 23, 2021, Attorney Neumann responded back. This time he reiterates Mrs. Colquhoun's first
request of March 8, 2021, now providing clarification, and writes;
“The information you requested in not presently kept for 2021.”
So, two weeks after the original request, eight (8) days after Attorney Neumann’s denial and a resubmittal
by Mrs. Colquhoun, he now lets her know that the 2021 data is not yet available but, in fact, the
spreadsheet (list) does exist.
This is a very underhanded and deceptive maneuver from Chief Vincent and Attorney Neumann who
worked his linguistic legalese to preventing the public from accessing the records they are interested in.
This violates Part 1, Article 8 of the New Hampshire Constitution.
And now Attorney Neumann is willing to respond to her request and writes:
“Attached is a list of the 2020 PILOT calculations in satisfaction of your revised request.
Attorney Neumann sent the 2020 PILOT information in PDF format and not the excel format originally
requested, He sought no clarification on this. Mrs. Colquhoun submitted a third request for the spreadsheet
format as it contained the calculations.
| called Mr. Vincent on March 25, 2021 to address the response Attorney Neumann gave to Ms. Colquhoun
on March 15, 2021. Mr. Vincent stated that while he is new here, he did locate the spreadsheet on the
