The Fall River Board of Assessors convened on January 19, 2022, at 9:44 AM. The board unanimously approved the minutes from their January 12, 2022, executive and open sessions with a 3-0 vote. Following this, they also unanimously approved the invoice proof list with a 3-0 vote. The board then moved into executive session at 9:47 AM to discuss abatements, exemptions, and ATB matters, as per G.L.C. 38 Section 21a7, G.L.C. 59 Section 60, and G.L. 30a Section 21a3. They reconvened in open session at 11:15 AM.
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everyone pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting to any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those present and are deemed acknowledgeable and permissible mr chairman yeah i have one roll call nancy hi now here rich wilson rich
0:25gonzalez here time 9 44. 9 44 meeting is now to open session item number three invoice proof list i'm sorry i skipped uh my mistake item number two approval of minutes in executive session and open session for january 12th motion to approve uh yeah i looked at him i'm good with him yeah i better all right is that so there was a motion to approve is there a second second
0:55roll call nancy hi no yes rich wilson rich gonzalez motion passes 3-0 to approve the minutes of the january 12 2022 executive and open session item number three invoice proof list
1:18i'm good i'm good here you go
1:33so
1:56can i have a motion to approve the invoice proof of this roll call nancy high note yes rich wilson which gonzalez motion passes three zero to prove the invoice proof
2:24all right item number four executive session uh may i have a motion to go into executive session to discuss abatements exemptions per submitted list pursuant to glc38 section 21a7 and glc 59 section 60.
2:43review atb matters pursuant to gl 30a section 21a3 since discussion in public would be detrimental to the city's legal position we will reconvene following the executive session move to go into executive session second roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson rich gonzalez motion yes motion passes 3-0 time 9 47 9 47 an executive again we will reconvene following executive session yes everyone welcome back could i have a
3:16uh motion to go into uh back into open session so second roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson rich gonzalez yes motion passes three zero time 11 15. 11 15 in open sessions chairman i'd like to make a motion to approve the following fiscal 2022 abatement applications number one two three four five seven ten not seven take seven or all ten eleven twelve thirteen sixteen eighteen and twenty three is there a second
3:53our second one huh yeah um you have one yeah we already did it show it and show it everybody yes we already did that everything's all set everything's all set so nancy read those again please approve number one two three four five right yep skip six ten eleven twelve thirteen sixteen eighteen twenty three yes is there a second again on that motion second motion roll call nancy heino abstain
4:31wait a second i'm staying on which number one i'm sorry number one all right so it was it was a it was stated for the record it was stated nancy uh no abstained from number one all the rest were fine correct nancy right all right and we had a second on that mr wilson yes you did roll call nancy high note abstain on number one and the rest of them yes yes all right rich wilson yes
5:04rich gonzalez yes on all of them so motion passes on all except one three zero on the other one there was one abstention on number one there was one abstention and two for it mr uh chairman i'd like to make a motion that we deny the following fiscal 2022 abatement application number seven second the motion two tonight roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson yes rich gonzalez yeah motion passes three zero to deny
5:40number seven okay item number five discussion on patriot property cynical inspection contract so um i guess it's been brought to our attention now that you're going to review the contract with legal correct and come back with the proper information to execute it that's correct mr chairman um maybe this is a quick moment to you know just let anybody everybody out there watching who maybe doesn't know what a
6:16cyclical inspection is maybe you could give them just a brief synopsis of what it is well um in the state of massachusetts every ten years cities and towns are required to to go door-to-door to do as a cyclical inspection measurement list of all the properties that are all real residential commercial and even the exempts we're currently into agreement on such contract we cannot unfortunately ourselves
6:50provide this information so we have to go out to a company who can handle this large undertaking of measurement and listing of properties if all goes well we will notify the taxpayers when the program will begin and hopefully we can have updated schedules because the city is rather large where particular crews will be working so that the residents will be aware and minimize the questions that can
7:22arise from this type of contractual work mr chair if i can add all of the workers from the consultant will have name tags there'll be some press releases before it happens so that you know they're coming and third we would encourage all of the residents who do get visited to cooperate to the fullest extent because this is what allows the city to create accurate assessments of your property
7:47so that similarly situated properties are treated in a similar fashion so we encourage you all to cooperate to the greatest degree possible if you're not there when they come by they're going to leave a little door hanger with a telephone number for you to call to arrange a meeting we encourage you to do that they'll probably also be a mailing afterwards if you haven't been visited and then pretty much unless you do
8:11something to your property you won't be visited again for another few years so uh thank you that's the importance of what's going to be happening thank you thank you it's a rather large undertaking and i hope everyone will item number six all other relevant business not known in 48 hours in advance is there any no item number seven scheduling of the next meeting we have a we have a date um january 27th
8:47at 11. all right so that's thursday january 27th at 11 o'clock okay and with that may i have a motion to adjourn second roll call nancy hi no yes rich wilson rich gonzalez yes motion passes 3-0 to a gin time 11 20. 11 20. thank you everyone