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Assessor reports 2025 grand list signed; about 400 appeals filed to date
Summary
Assessor Miss Elliott told the board the 2025 grand list was signed Jan. 30, final assessment notices went out Jan. 23, and roughly 400 appeals were filed by the Board of Assessment Appeals deadline; she said COD for the revaluation is under 10.
Assessor Miss Elliott presented the February 2026 assessor's report and told the Board of Estimate and Taxation that the 2025 grand list was signed on Jan. 30 and final assessment notices were mailed Jan. 23. She said the Board of Assessment Appeals filing window ran Feb. 1'Feb. 20 and that, as of her report, roughly 400 appeals had been submitted; she expected final counts in the following days.
Miss Elliott described the revaluation statistics and the coefficient of dispersion (COD), explaining that the Office of Policy and Management requires certain COD thresholds and that the town's COD for this revaluation was under 10, indicating assessments were generally within 5' 10% of recent sale prices. Board members compared the number of appeals and past cycles: Miss Elliott cited previous counts (e.g., 638 in the last revaluation and higher informal counts in 2015).
After questions from board members about graphs and sales-to-assessed-value measures, a motion to accept the assessor's report was made and approved by voice vote. The assessor also noted she had corrected a page in her presentation and would supply updated statistics to the board.
