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Gardner City Board of Assessors accepts assessor update, moves to executive session
Summary
At its April 22, 2025 meeting the Gardner City Board of Assessors accepted an assessor report about state-approved exemption forms and sales data for fiscal 2026, noted motor-vehicle exemption approvals were still pending, and moved to consider an executive session under "general laws 308."
The Gardner City Board of Assessors met Tuesday, April 22, 2025, and accepted the assessor's update on state-approved exemption forms and the sales data to be used for fiscal year 2026, then moved to consider entering an executive session under "general laws 308."
The update focused on administrative filings that determine reimbursement and valuation inputs for the next tax year. The Assessor said, "Forms approved by the state. Veterans exemptions and vision has started review of the LA Sales" and that the department had "mailed INEs to Vision to review." The Assessor added that "the MDM 1 is all of the exemptions" and that submissions for reimbursement calculations had been made and approved.
The assessor noted one outstanding item: "The only 1 I'm waiting on is for the motor vehicle exemptions. They haven't approved those yet." The board recorded that "the last day to send in the motor vehicle exemptions is the thirtieth of this month," indicating a pending deadline for those filings.
A motion to waive reading of the March 25, 2025 meeting minutes and approve them "as written" was made and seconded; the record shows the motion was moved and seconded. Later, a separate motion to accept the assessor's report was made and seconded. The minutes and the assessor update were handled before discussion of an executive session.
Item 4 on the agenda was a motion "to go into executive session under general laws 3 0 8 to comply with or act under the authority of any general law and not to return to open session upon adjournment," which was seconded. The transcript records the motion and second but does not record a vote count or the result of the executive-session motion.
What this means for taxpayers: the forms and sales the assessor described feed into valuation and exemption reimbursements for fiscal year 2026; the assessor reported that most exemption-related forms submitted for reimbursement have been approved, while motor-vehicle exemption approvals remain pending. The board's planned executive session was invoked under a cited statute phrase in the meeting but no further details or outcomes were recorded in the provided transcript.
The board did not state a date for further public action on the pending motor-vehicle exemptions approval or the specific topics to be discussed in the executive session in the portion of the record provided.
