The Fall River Board of Assessors convened on February 1, 2022, opening their meeting at 10:37 AM. The board members present were Nancy Heino, Rich Wilson, and Mitch Gonzalez. The meeting began with the approval of the minutes from January 27, 2022, which passed with a 2-0 vote, with Rich Wilson abstaining as he was not present at the prior meeting. Following this, the board discussed Motor Vehicle Excise Warrant 2022 Commitment Number One, which totaled $6,733,632.34. The board then entered executive session at 10:41 AM to discuss abatements, exemptions, and ATB matters. Upon returning to open session at 11:00 AM, they made several decisions: denying Fiscal 22 abatement number six (3-0 vote), approving Fiscal 22 supplemental abatement number 106 under Chapter 59 Section 2D (3-0 vote), and approving Fiscal 22 statutory exemptions 63 through 68 (3-0 vote). The meeting continued with an appointment with Patriot Properties regarding the city's cyclical inspection contract. After initial technical difficulties and a five-minute recess, Patriot Properties representatives, Mark and Jeff Leone, raised concerns about significant scope changes in the proposed contract. This led to another executive session at 11:09 AM. Upon returning at 11:19 AM, Attorney Matt Thomas clarified that no negotiations had taken place in executive session and recommended that staff would follow up with Patriot Properties offline. The board also announced the passing of former board member Roger Tache, extending condolences to his family. The next meeting was scheduled for Thursday, February 10th, at 3:00 PM, and the meeting adjourned at 11:21 AM.
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open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through 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 good morning everyone uh i'd like to get the meeting started
0:20roll call nancy hi no here rich wilson here mitch gonzalez here everyone here 3-0 time 10 meeting opens up at 10 37 item number three three motor vehicle excise warrant 2022 commitment number one number two oh approval i'm sorry approval of the uh minutes of executing it had been open january 27 2022 i hadn't looked on him okay i read them all right or not i wasn't no no no so can i have a motion to
1:02accept the minutes and open an executive i'll make a motion to accept a minute i'll second it roll call nancy hi no yes richard gonzalez rich wilson abstains he was not here motion passes 2-0 to accept the minutes of january 27th
1:29item number three motor vehicle exercise warrant 22 commitment number one i just have a question sure how much is it six million seven hundred thirty three thousand six hundred thirty two dollars and thirty four cents in relationship to other commitment number one yeah i was just gonna have that is that a uh is that one of the logics right yeah good that means the economy is going
2:01good right people are buying cars right
2:21um
2:48thank you
3:31okay uh item number four executive session can i have a motion to go into executive session to discuss abatements exemptions for submitted lists pursuant to glc 30a section 2187 and glc 59 section 60. review atb mattis 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 second
4:03roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson yes mitch gonzalez yes motion passes 3-0 time 10 41 10 41 we're now an executive thank you everyone i'd like to make a motion to go back into open session second roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson yes rich gonzalez yes motion passes three zero time eleven o'clock eleven o'clock back into open session
4:37mr chairman i wanna make a motion to for the following fiscal 22 abatement number six to deny second emotion roll call nancy i know yes yes which gonzalez yes motion passes three zero to deny application number six mr chairman i'd like to make a motion to approve the following fiscal 22 supplemental abatement number 106 under chapter 59 section 2d emotion roll call nancy i know yes rich
5:12gonzo i'm sorry rich wilson which consoles yes poetry passes 3-0 to approve supplement 106.
5:20and mr chairman i'd like to approve the following fiscal 22 statutory exemptions number 63 64 65 66 67 and 68.
5:32second the motion to approve roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson yes which gonzalez yes motion passes three zero to uh approve the exemptions read 63 through 68.
5:50okay item number five appointment with patriot properties regarding the city's cyclical inspection contract so um what you would need is a motion to hear from uh to enter or to enter discussions with patriot properties and welcome them into the appointment mr chairman i make a motion to um welcome into our meeting the people from patriot properties i second the motion roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson
6:27rich gonzalez yes motion passes 3-0 so mr chairman i believe that representatives of patriot properties are going to be participating through zoom um and that they're being brought on i think as we talk um as you know at the last meeting we discussed that the city was going to retain the services of patriot properties to perform the cyclical inspections or the remainder of the cyclical inspections
6:55that are required to be done in order for the city to be uh to be completed by the time the city begins its revaluation in 2024.
7:05so um is there somebody from patriot on right now yep i'm here mark and jeff are here um mike we can't hear them in here sorry folks while we're working out the technical issues there's two little words down there
7:43can't hear that in here while the tech folks are working this um as you know we've explained to the public that patriot properties will be retained by the city and they're going to be out in certain neighborhoods beginning in march i believe doing inspections of the properties and that they'll be notified when the people folks will be notified before they're going into neighborhoods and
8:08that this is important for people to cooperate with them so that the assessments are as accurate as possible
8:21can you hear me
8:37why don't you take a brief minute recess wake up why don't you take a five minute recess while we're working out the technical issues all right let's let's take a five-minute recess do we need a roll call yeah some motion to just take a recess motion to take a five minute recess that can okay roll call nancy i know yes rich wilson rich gonzales motion passes three zero five minute recess
9:10all right we're back everyone from the recess time uh 1107 1107.
9:17i'd like to welcome patriot properties guys state your name so for the public carol and jeff leone thank you mark and jeff uh thank you for uh being on with us and uh i now have turn it over to the board do we have any questions regarding well mr chair if i may first so mark and jeff you've received the contract um and we've received the certificate of insurance from you
9:45thank you for sending that to us um do you have any questions before the board starts uh yes i do um given the amount of changes that have been proposed in this contract that was sent back to me um the red line items there's a tremendous amount of scope that's been changed so i think that we probably want to take this offline and discuss it okay i'm going to go into it it's not
10:13it's there's enough scope change that's been added in here that it's going to substantially add to the project and i don't you know i think that that's maybe it's a clarification but um the way you know those all the items that your attorney added or the assessor's request is fine but that's not what we propose to you folks okay so i kind of would have thought that you guys would have sent us back an email to
10:42that effect this is matt thomas the attorney but that's okay so mr chair um maybe the best thing to do is um go back into executive follow motion all right mr chairman i'll make a motion to go into executive session check in the motion roll call nancy heino yes rich wilson yes rich gonzalez yes motion passes 3-0 time 1109 1109 we will reconvene following this executive hi everyone welcome back
11:16all right i'd like to uh make a motion to go back into open session motion to go back into open session roll call nancy high no yes rich wilson rich gonzales motion passes three zero time 11 19. 11 19 back in total so mr chair i just want to make it clear that in executive session the only people in executive session were the board members um nell sandra and myself we didn't have any negotiations in
11:43executive session um my recommendation to you is to close is to finish out your public business close the meeting and then nell and i will speak to patriot properties afterwards if that's okay sounds good okay good item number five uh we just completed item number six all other relevant business not known 48 hours in advance and i do have a a piece to mention um i'd like to take a moment to announce
12:16uh for the board of assessors that roger tache a former board member for quite a while with us i recently passed away our condolences to the family i'd like to take uh this time to thank him for his service to the city of far river he was a very valuable member for this department and other departments again my condolences to the family item number seven scheduling of the next meeting thursday the 10th okay
12:51sounds good guys it's okay with me is that okay 10 o'clock no no i will double check but i'm quite sure what time what time do you want to go a little later it gets at 10 30 in providence oh all right we can do how about if we did the afternoon that's fine can we do it can we do it three o'clock all right so let's do it three o'clock okay now you're welcome three o'clock
13:22february on february 10th i put off the dentist right hopefully all right no problem sounds good um thank you and if that's it with any other relevant business the tent at three o'clock at three o'clock well that's so long as my baby doesn't come all right congratulations mom baby watch all right um so we have the next schedule i mean can i have a motion to adjourn second roll call nancy hi no yes rich wilson
13:58yes rich gonzalez yes motion passes three zero time 11 21 11 21 we agenda meeting thank you everyone