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Board of Assessment Appeals accepts late tax-exempt application for Missionary Society of Connecticut
Summary
At a brief Feb. 20 meeting, the Board of Assessment Appeals accepted a late M3 quadrennial tax-exempt application from the Missionary Society of Connecticut for two properties and allowed the exemption on the 2025 Grand List after citing a municipal clerical error; motions were made by Deborah Hanlon and seconded by Michael Taylor.
The Board of Assessment Appeals accepted a late tax-exempt filing from the Missionary Society of Connecticut for two properties and placed the exemption on the 2025 Grand List during its Feb. 20, 2026 meeting.
Chairman Thomas Casey called the meeting to order at 5:00 PM. The board recorded Deborah Hanlon and alternate Michael Taylor (participating by phone) as present; Taylor was seated as a voting member.
The board first approved the minutes of its Sept. 13, 2025 meeting by motion of Deborah Hanlon, seconded by Michael Taylor; the motion passed with all in favor.
During a discussion of an M3 Quadrennial Tax Exempt application, the board considered filings from the Missionary Society of Connecticut for properties at 221 Low Road and 49 Sharon Heights. The record states that, "due to a municipal clerical error, the applicant did not receive the application to file as a tax-exempt organization." Citing that clerical error, the board voted to accept the late filing and grant the tax exemption for the 2025 Grand List on a motion by Hanlon and a second by Taylor. The motion carried.
The board announced there would be no meetings in March because there were no other applications. It set its next meeting for Sept. 5 at 9:00 AM to hear Motor Vehicle Appeals. A final motion to adjourn, made by Hanlon and seconded by Taylor, closed the meeting at 5:04 PM. The minutes were submitted by Recording Secretary Nikki Blass and later filed by the Office of the Town Clerk on Feb. 26, 2026.
Note: vote tallies are recorded in the minutes as "all in favor." The actions array in the meeting record uses a tally derived from the members listed as present at SEG 004–SEG 005.
