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Brentwood approves multiple abatements and advances several budget lines amid debate over library benefits and assessor days
Summary
The selectboard approved a set of abatements, clarified payment breakdowns for several billing errors, and debated reopening the insurance benefits budget for consistency; they also set an assessing budget figure and approved the government buildings budget while tabling some benefit corrections until next week.
The Brentwood selectboard approved multiple tax abatements and advanced several budget lines after extended discussion about internal procedures, benefit calculations and contracted assessing days.
Abatements approved: Assessor/finance staff presented a series of abatements that the board moved and voted on individually, including a $750 veteran credit, corrections for subdivided parcels and acreage/current‑use entries, a $6,653 Eversource education‑tax credit (approved despite one recorded 'no' vote), an abatement to adjust a unit taxed as 100% completed to 40% complete (credit ~$2,630.08) and a small parent‑parcel subdivision credit ($84.50).…
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