Special Bd. of Aldermen — 11/26/2018 Page 23
| will say that number one | appreciate the fact that you said that people in the assessing department have been
very patient. But | think you people also have to realize that Nashua residents have been very patient. I’ve only
lived here 5 years and have never ever gotten involved in this until | got my last bill. And then I’m looking over
things and saying you know I’m coming to a meeting about this audit and | have to tell you, I’m very
disappointed because it is not what | thought the audit would be about. Because | think we all knew the Chief
Assessor was very rude because | called him once and he told me that if | didn’t like the way Nashua did things,
| should move. | am now reviewing what is on the web site and | have to be honest, most of it, you go from one
portal to another portal, you are missing blocks and everything else, | am finding whole streets that have
absolutely no land value. That to me is a problem. And more importantly I’m going over now, | just took my
block and my block, just the land ranges from $5.37 to $9.37. That’s a problem to me. Why am | paying more
money than the guy 3 houses down from me for the same piece of land? | assume that this audit was going to
look at the problems within the Assessing Department as far as the garbage that they have on the web site.
And | am a little upset about it because | even looked around and believe it or not, Sky Meadow is paying .19
cents a square foot and I’m paying $8.66 and | want to know why? And if you look around there is a street, Bud
Way near the airport, no one is paying any land on it.
So you people are letting the residents of Nashua pay for all these other firms to be here and not pay any land?
| think that is totally unacceptable. | will be getting letters out tomorrow, | have 5 streets that do not have any
land assessment on. The one over on Bud Way, $5,500,000.00 to buy that piece of land and they are not
paying any taxes. What is it? But 1 expected you people to look more at the garbage that was on the web site
and to find out why, on a short block, our property, our square foot is going from $5.00 to $9.00. I’m sorry if |
sound mad but I’m looking over these numbers and | am a novice at this. | have never been involved in real
estate, you know, | got my bills, | paid them. But I’m looking at some of this stuff and | can’t believe it. And | am
getting into now the depreciation. You know from 2005 to 2018 we should all have the same depreciation,
whether it is 10%, 15% or 30%. I’ve looked at like 6 properties, somebody is 35, somebody is 20, somebody is
6, somebody 4. There is something wrong here. | mean aren’t we all supposed to be treated fairly and at the
same rates? I’m sorry guys but that’s how | feel. | am very upset because | just can’t believe — we all knew, |
mean you had to be a moron not to know that there was a problem in the Assessing Department, OK?
My listing said complete reno they forgot to say it was complete reno with used equipment but if | had an
inspector there maybe | wouldn’t have had to block off my basement for 4 years and not go down there because
of the gas leak. But Nashua failed me because they got a permit on the house but nobody checked anything
and | spent the next 4 years correcting wiring and everything else just to get it up to standard. Sorry.
President Wilshire
Anyone else who is here to speak this evening? Ok seeing no one, do | have motion?
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION BY ALDERMAN O’BRIEN TO ADJOURN
MOTION CARRIED
The meeting was declared adjourned at 9:00 p.m.
Attest: Patricia Piecuch, City Clerk
