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Grand Island residents press town board to pause 2025 property reassessment; board schedules workshop, tables suspension motion
Summary
Multiple Grand Island residents urged the Town Board to suspend the 2025 reassessment, citing hundreds of complaints and large, unexplained assessment swings; Councilman Daniel Kilmer moved to suspend but the board tabled that motion and scheduled a workshop with the assessor and contractor for more information.
A large group of Grand Island residents told the Town Board on April 21 that the town should suspend its 2025 property reassessment amid what they described as hundreds of apparent errors and large, unexplained valuation swings.
The most detailed public comment came from Mike Madigan, a Grand Island resident, who said the town has received “over 700 complaints so far” and that the assessor’s office has already made roughly $17,000,000 in adjustments. He and several other residents said many similar houses on the island received widely different reassessments and that commercial-to-residential shifts in assessed value are increasing the residential tax burden. “Nonresident commercial properties, 205 out of 250, saw tax decreases…shifting over $700,000 onto residents,” Madigan said.
Why it matters: The reassessment affects tax bills across the island. Several…
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