Special Bd. of Aldermen — 04/30/2019 Page 2
in collaboration with staff in other departments to problem solve, consider other department’s moving parts and
how it effects our organization as a whole. |’ve had the privilege to work for the City | was born and raised in. |
appreciate the opportunity to assist every person | am able to whether they are co-workers, other municipalities,
or members of the public. | also assist in teaching exemption and credit workshops for the NHMA, educating
other municipalities and appraisal companies.
Greg Turgiss has been with the Department since February of 1999; initially as a data collector. He became a
residential assessor in December of 1999. After taking all of the necessary courses and having the required
experience, he became a DRA Certified Property Assessor and an NHAAO Certified NH Assessor. His duties
included locating, identifying and performing data analysis on residential properties; qualifying sales through field
inspection and data analysis; processing residential abatements filed with the City and presenting them to the
Board of Assessors. He represents the City at the BTLA in Nashua Superior Court in abatement cases; assists
taxpayers with any questions, comments, concerns they may have and assists with projects throughout the
Department including data collection and analysis for assessment updates.
He was again promoted to Commercial Assessor in 2016 and due to the hard work, education and lengthy
experience he has gained, his status was elevated from DRA Certified Property Assessor to DRA Certified
Property Assessor Supervisor in 2018. This status allows Greg to exercise general supervision over revaluation
projects, conducts sales surveys and establish base values for land and buildings, prepare sales surveys,
establish charts to be used in revaluations, prepare reports, supervise informal reviews of property assessments
with property owners, oversee any revaluation by assisting the municipality to ensure the revaluation is
performed in accordance with State laws and rules. Assist the municipality to ensure that it is in compliance with
the revaluation contract is adhered to. | have had the opportunity to work with Greg from 2000 to the present and
his growth in the department is something to aspire to. He has become one of the top individuals | have been
able to depend on with the changes that have occurred within our Department.
I’d like to just talk about what we do on the administrative side. So the administrative side, what we are doing
from January until now is process exemption and credit applications. The deadline to notify tax payers for us is
July 1°. So the new and renew for elderly and disabled we have 472 applications that we need to process.
Veteran’s credits under RSA 72:28, 72:28B and 72:35, 217 applications that we need to process. Blind
exemptions, there are six. Solar exemptions there are 40 and we also process AQ’s for any parcels that are
applying for a charitable, religious or educational exemption. So that’s 239 applications that we need to process
and that is something that is done annually. These need to be prepared and presented to the Board of
Assessors with staff recommendations.
We also deal with property transfers and updating records. Transfers due to a Deed being recorded through
Registry of Deeds, we review Deeds, Plans and check them against GIS for accuracy and validity. We process
notices to towns and cities from Superior Court, the Probate Department. We process name changes due to
marriage or divorce. We process address changes; with the tax billing coming up we need to make sure all that
stuff is correct.
Exemption and Credit Workshops: So Assessing Staff conducts workshops at various sites throughout the City
informing tax payers about available exemptions and credits to reduce their property taxes. So we went to the
Senior Center in January, we went to Jensen’s in late January and just a couple of weeks ago attended the
Mayor’s Senior Summit to give information there as well. We provide information regarding assistance available
to any residents in the Greater Nashua area if we can help them, we will.
What the administrative staff is working on right now, we are preparing for file capture. The tax bills are going out
soon so we are going through reports to verify all the information regarding exemptions and credits is accurate.
We prepare the Board of Assessor meetings; it is a bi-monthly process so it is information that we have to gather
