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ahead of time and mail to them and then go through it with them at the meeting. We are going through data entry
and QC. We review and process plans and caveats that have been recorded at the Registry of Deeds. Right
now is a busy time because of the April 1* date; it’s as of April 1®' of the tax year, so we have to make sure this
stuff is done before the July bill. We also respond to e-mails from the web site. | will turn this over now to Greg.
Greg Turgiss, Commercial Assessor
Thank you Louise, again | am Greg Turgiss, | am a Commercial Assessor with the City of Nashua. | would like to
start off with a couple of the memberships that we currently have and some certifications. We are members of
the NHAAO, NH Association of Assessing Officials; the NHMA which is NH Municipal Association and the IAAO,
the International Association of Assessing Officials. Some of the certifications that people hold in the office is NH
Certified General Appraiser, Certified NH Assessor, Certified Property Assessor Supervisor, Certified Property
Assessor and Certified Property Assessor Assistant.
What are we working on right now? Well as Louise mentioned right now is a very busy time with the April 1*' tax
date and July bills going out and file capture. Preparing for file capture to ensure that the July tax bill will be
mailed out on time, have the most current data and be as accurate as possible. Physical inspections to capture
value due to new construction with the use of the Standardized New Construction Form, which would be this blue
form that you got in your handouts. If a property is not completely built, the other form, the Construction
Completion report would work with that for the per cent complete of the property. We also verify all physical data
and create the new property record card. The building permits are printed weekly from the Building Department
CityView Software System. Physical inspections are attempted due to the issuance of building permits, demo
permits, etc. The Assessor will verify the data of the property being inspected using the existing property record
card acting as a check list to verify the data. You all received one of these too, this is actually the property
record card for City Hall. Alright.
When we conduct the inspection and the homeowner is not present, a door tag which was this one that we gave
you, is left on the property with the reason why we were out there and a request for a call back inspection. In
some cases, work is done without a building permit or doesn’t require a building permit but may affect the
assessed value. These items may be picked up at a later date due to a building permit being issued for another
reason; MLS review due to the property being listed for sale; or during a full measure and list which we have
asked for and has been talked about greatly. Until a complete inspection is done, including interior and exterior,
the City may not be able to determine the full impact of any permitted or non-permitted work.
One of the other things we do is the inspections of City-owned property that is being leased out. For example
Court Street, the Liquid Therapy Brewery is in there; they are required to pay taxes on the portion of the building
they are occupying. So we have to go out and put a value on that for them to pay the taxes on that. We also do
the inspections for the owned, used and occupied status of any new organization applying for a charitable,
religious or educational exemption and also do inspections for organizations renewing their exemption status. So
one of the requirements for the exemption is the property has to be owned, used and occupied by the
organization.
The Department makes a good faith effort to get the value of the property as of April 1° and have that be
reflected on their July tax bill. This will prevent the tax payer from having to pay the total taxes due for the year
on his or her December tax bill. So basically what we try to do is if you build a new house or put an addition on
your house, we try to go out and make a good faith effort to get there so it is divided between the two tax bills. If
you build a half a million dollar house, you would prefer to have two tax bills and not it all on the final tax bill. The
tax office has notified us that the file capture date was actually today so it was a little bit busy in the office today.
That’s for our Department it still has to go through the process and the review and so forth from there. We review
