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Select Board hears abatement decisions, approves auction signatory and reviews pending appeals
Summary
The board reviewed dozens of abatement requests, approved several reductions (including one parcel adjusted from $113,500 to $32,200 with a tax abatement of $1,945), denied others for insufficient evidence, authorized staff to sign purchase-and-sales at Saturday's auction, and noted multiple properties with appeals pending before the BTLA.
Assessing staff presented the Select Board with a large signature file and the 2026 tax warrant, and summarized approved and denied abatement requests. Among the approved adjustments, the assessor recommended reclassifying a six-acre railbed parcel affected by a 100-foot power-line easement to a lower "back land" valuation, reducing its assessed value from $113,500 to $32,200 and resulting in a tax abatement with interest of $1,945. The property owner, Neil Macyver, addressed the board during public comment to ask how the assessor reached those figures and…
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