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Board approves payroll and accounts-payable warrants and grants a property abatement
Summary
The Select Board approved payroll and accounts-payable warrants totaling multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars and granted a property tax abatement of $1,444.83 after confirming a corrected assessed value.
The Berwick Select Board approved payroll and accounts-payable warrants on Aug. 4 and granted a property-tax abatement for one parcel following staff clarification.
The board approved payroll warrant #9 dated 07/23/2026 for $125,052.55; payroll warrant #10 dated 07/30/2026 for $127,512.61; accounts payable warrant #11 dated 07/31/2026 for $131,563.99; accounts payable warrant #12 dated 08/04/2026 for $1,094,496.08 (the town's portion of the school budget); and accounts payable warrant #13 dated 08/04/2026 for $49,202.09. The Chair moved to pay the bills and the board approved the warrants.
On a separate item the board reviewed an abatement for property map R037-6-1 after staff clarified an earlier discrepancy between the memo and abatement paperwork. Arthur said the property — described as a Cape-style home that sold off-market on July 25 for $500,000 — had its assessed value reduced from $770,800 to $660,000. Staff recommended an abatement of $1,444.83 for the 2026 tax year; the Chair moved to grant the abatement and the board approved the motion.
No roll-call vote counts were recorded in the transcript for these motions.
