Finance Committee - 02/03/2021 Page 9
Alderwoman Lu
Yeah that’s what | ...
Mayor Donchess
Ok well we could check that out. I’ve not had that question come up before and I’d be glad to look into it.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you.
Mayor Donchess
And get an answer from Legal. Alderman Clemons did you have some input here?
Alderman Clemons
Yeah just briefly, working in the industry | can tell you that every City and Town does it a little bit different
depending on the size of the Town. | know that we have received checks from the City of Nashua and typically
in my own company because we have mortgage holders that live here and | can tell you that the City sends
out, at least from my experience, the individual check per the taxpayer. But it references and what we look up
is the, we reference the property tax ID and not the owner. And the reason we do that is because we have and
| assume that this is probably true across the board is that we have multiple, we have people that own multiple
properties in Nashua or any other City for that matter. And so if a check comes in from the same town, we
don’t want to know who the person is necessarily, we want to see the property tax ID. So typically those
checks reference the property tax ID and not the person. | can’t recall off the top of my head whether or not
the ones that I’ve seen from Nashua have the name listed on it. Most of them that come in from across the
country, because we are nationwide, just reference the Tax ID Number because that’s what we are looking for.
Mayor Donchess
You are saying that’s for clarity because with the Tax ID Number you know exactly where the abatement
should apply whereas if they have the name of the owner that owner might have 10 different properties and
you have no idea where it should go.
Alderman Clemons
Correct.
Mayor Donchess
OK.
Alderman Clemons
But again | am speaking from my experience and | don’t recall how Nashua particularly does it.
Mayor Donchess
Well that’s an interesting point. Alright well we will check this out and we will report back. Ok?
