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Select Board relieves KRT of contract penalty, hears timeline for property data collection
Summary
Brentwood officials agreed not to enforce a late-penalty clause against KRT and pressed the assessor contractor on a scheduled winter field data-collection campaign after a software conversion delayed inspections and raised residents' valuation concerns.
Brentwood Town Select Board members voted to waive the late-penalty provisions in their contract with KRT, the town's contracted revaluation consultant, and received details from KRT about a planned winter data‑collection effort following a software conversion.
The board made the motion to leave the penalty clause unenforced after KRT told officials the firm had completed the database conversion and hearings and was preparing for in‑field data collection this winter. KRT representative Rob Tozier said the conversion from Patriot to the Avatar system and contract timing meant the company could not complete its planned data collection before the statutorily required revaluation filing (MS‑1), and that the data‑collection work would instead follow the reevaluation paperwork.
The action matters because townwide property card data and post‑reevaluation field checks affect individual assessed values and, therefore, property tax bills. Several residents told the board they…
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