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Fall River City assessor approves abatements, statutory exemptions and solar rooftop exemptions
Summary
At a routine meeting, the Fall River City assessor's board approved minutes, invoices and monthly reports and voted 3–0 to approve abatements 1 and 4, to deny abatements 2 and 3, and to approve statutory exemptions nos. 64–89 and a listed set of solar rooftop exemptions. Next meeting set for Feb. 18.
The Fall River City assessor's board met and carried a series of routine motions, approving minutes, invoices, monthly reports and multiple property tax exemptions and abatements.
The board voted unanimously, 3–0, to approve the executive- and open-session minutes for 11/19/2025 and to accept the monthly invoice proof list and monthly reports. The board then handled tax-warrant paperwork for fiscal year 2026 (personal property and real estate) and acknowledged the community preservation surcharge and water and sewer lien warrants; those warrants were presented for signatures and initialing rather than recorded as separate roll-call votes on the transcript.
After returning from an executive session called under the statutes cited in the meeting record, the board took final action on several abatement and exemption items. A motion to approve fiscal 2026 abatements numbered 1 and 4 passed by roll call, 3–0. A subsequent motion to deny fiscal 2026 abatement applications numbered 2 and 3 also passed, 3–0.
The board approved a list of fiscal 2026 statutory exemptions (nos. 64 through 89) by roll call, 3–0; the clerk read the exemptions list into the record. The board also approved the provided list of solar rooftop exemptions, recorded as approved by roll call, 3–0.
No other business not known 48 hours in advance was presented. Members confirmed the next meeting date as Feb. 18 at 10:00 a.m. The meeting adjourned after a final unanimous vote.
Actions recorded in the meeting transcript include approval of minutes (11/19/2025), approval of invoices and monthly reports, the execution/initialing of FY2026 tax warrants, entry into and return from executive session under quoted statutory references, approval of abatements 1 and 4, denial of abatements 2 and 3, approval of statutory exemptions 64–89, approval of the solar rooftop exemptions list, scheduling the next meeting for Feb. 18, and adjournment.
