A Special Meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held Monday, November 15, 2021, at 8:12 pm in the Aldermanic
Chamber and via Zoom teleconference which meeting link can be found on the agenda and on the City’s website
calendar.
President Lori Wilshire presided; Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite recorded.
Prayer was offered by Deputy City Clerk Allison Waite; Alderman Thomas Lopez led in the Pledge to the Flag.
Let’s start the meeting by taking a roll call attendance. If you are participating via Zoom, please state your presence,
reason for not attending the meeting in person, and whether there is anyone in the room with you during this meeting,
which is required under the Right-To-Know Law.
The roll call was taken with 10 members of the Board of Aldermen present: Alderman Michael B. O’Brien, Sr.,
Alderman Patricia Klee, Alderman Richard A. Dowd, Alderman June M. Caron, Alderman Benjamin Clemons,
Alderman Thomas Lopez, Alderwoman Elizabeth Lu, Alderman Ernest Jette, Alderman Linda Harriott-Gathright, and
Alderman Wilshire.
Alderwoman Shoshanna Kelly, Alderman David C. Tencza, Alderman Jan Schmidt, Alderman Brandon Laws and Alderman
Skip Cleaver were recorded absent.
COMMUNICATION
From: Kimberly Kleiner, Administrative Services Director
Re: Update on the 2022 Revaluation
There being no objection, President Wilshire accepted the communication and placed it on file.
DISCUSSION
e Assessing Update on the Revaluation
President Wilshire
Tonight we are having a discussion on an assessing update on the revaluation. | will recognize Administrative Services
Director Kim Kleiner as well as Chief Assessor Rick Vincent.
Kim Kleiner, Administrative Services Director
Good evening Madam Chair and members of the Board. So we have a brief presentation. We also have members from
Vision Government Solutions who are attending via Zoom. They will also be speaking this evening as well as Chief
Assessor Vincent who many of you may not have had the pleasure of meeting but | assure you, the city is very lucky to
have. He said this morning to me | thought it was 11 months and | can’t believe it’s been 11 months already. | am very
glad that he came to join the city.
So I’m going to share a brief presentation and we'll get started. The 2022 full measure and list and revaluation in
accordance with NH Statutes, the City of Nashua is conducting this and we estimated that it would take about 3 years to
complete. Finalizing in September of 2022. The process actually started back in August in 2019 and now with COVID in
there, that seems like a million light years ago. We did start with a request for proposals which actually brought four
proposals forward. Just to give you a brief timeline of what happened, in August we did that request. A city committee
was formed and the Board of Assessors ultimately chose a recommendation to make to the Board of Aldermen. On
February 19 of 2020, the Finance Committee approved the contract on February 28'" we issued a data collection press
release. March 2™ the Vision Government Solutions came in for a startup meeting up in the city auditorium. Many of
you were present with the NH Department of Revenue. That really kicked off the process. Shortly after that in the next
few days, they started data collection and then we all remember what happened after that - COVID. So it was important
to keep the process going. March 16, 2020 there was an amendment to the contract due to COVID. Interior inspections
were suspended but the exterior measure and list continued. This was an accepted practice by the NH Department of
Revenue. In June 28, 2020, we began quarterly updates to the Board of Tax and Land Appeals. Now this is important
to remember that this is an order reassessment by the Board of Tax and Land Appeals. So not only does the Chief
Assessor report quarterly to them but he also does a number of quarterly updates to the Board of Assessors with Vision.
| will pass it to you Chief Assessor.
