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Select Board discusses tax abatement for nonconforming lot created by 2020 divorce judgment
Summary
The board considered an abatement for map lot 02-090 after learning a previously split parcel was reconveyed to the same owner in 2020 and not recombined; members debated the correct abatement amounts and amended the motion before moving on.
The Select Board discussed a property-tax abatement for map lot 02-090 after staff identified that the parcel had been split in a 2020 divorce judgment and later reconveyed to the same owner without recombining the parcels.
A board member explained the history: one portion of the original parcel had gone to a person identified in the discussion as 'Wendel Stro' and another portion to 'Debbie'; both portions later ended up with the same owner but remained listed as separate, leaving a land-only account that the assessor has since deleted. The board said the result was a nonconforming lot with house and adjacent land taxed as two parcels.
The board initially moved to abate an amount discussed as $537.75; during discussion a speaker described that the assessor had deleted the land-only account and spoke of an abatement figure of $285.60 (the transcript also records the larger-looking figure '28,560' in several places, which appears inconsistent with the surrounding discussion). A member then amended the motion to abate the lot for an amount described in the meeting as $28,560 (the amendment language was made on the record) and the board subsequently moved to abate a second account (account number 2608) in the amount of $252.15. The amendment was seconded.
Transcript notes show inconsistent numeric references during the exchange (some segments read as $285.60 and others as $28,560). The board recorded the account numbers and said the assessor would delete the redundant account; the motion was advanced and seconded on the record, but the transcript does not contain a verbatim roll-call vote for the abatement motion.
The board did not provide additional procedural conditions on the abatement during the discussion. No members of the public spoke on the matter during the meeting.
Next steps: the assessor's office will reflect the deletion of the land-only account tied to map lot 02-090 and the board recorded the abatement motion and its amendment on the record.
