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| Posted 5/7/2008 |
Board of Assessors I would like to know what Towns still have a Board of Assessors. Is the Board of Assessors a working board and do they receive any compensation? Does anyone have information on disbanding or removing a Board of Assessors? June Chadderton Beacon Falls Assessor Phone (203) 723-5253 email: beacon_falls_assr @yahoo .com
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| Posted 4/18/2008 |
Nursing Home Sales Does any town have sales data for a nursing home between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2005? I am also seeking information on any nursing home appraisal done for the same time frame in response to a lawsuit. Any information regarding such a sale or appraisal would be greatly appreciated. Contact me at (203) 294-2001. Shelby P. Jackson III, Town of Wallingford Assessor
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| Posted 2/25/2008 |
Over 55 Communities There are a number of "adult community" 55 plus developments going up all over the state. Are all these developments assessed at 70% of fair market for tax purposes or are there incentives that would lower that percentage? I have heard that some towns find these developments very attractive and do provide some form of tax incentives. If tax or assessment agreements exist could you give me the details? Larry LaBarbera, Hartford Assessor Phone (860) 757-9645
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| Posted 2/1/2008 |
Job Reclassification The assessment technician position in my city is being reclassified. I am collecting job descriptions with specific duties and pay grade information to submit to the personnel office. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Nancy at ncabral@ci.new-london.ct.us, fax (860) 447-5225, or call (860) 447-5216. Nancy Cabral, Assessment Technician, City of New London
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| Posted 2/1/2008 |
Campground information / sale information I am looking for information and or sale information on campgrounds. PLEASE EMAIL DDELGROSSO@TOWN-NORTHSTONINGTON.COM Darryl L. Del Grosso, Assessor, Town of North Stonington, CT.
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| Posted 11/30/2007 |
Local Senior Freeze Program I am looking for Towns/Cities that have adopted a Freeze program for their seniors and the parameters that were set to qualify. Thank you. Sylvia Keiser, CCMA II, Assessor's Office, Town of Woodbury, CT Phone 203-263-2435 Fax: 203-263-2948
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| Posted 11/26/2007 |
Grand List Binding I am looking for vendors that do binding of Grand Lists. Any suggestions? Sylvia Keiser, CCMA II, Assessor's Office, Town of Woodbury, CT Phone 203-263-2435 Fax: 203-263-2948
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| Posted 10/1/2007 |
Biodiesel Facility The Town of
How are you assessing tanks as Real Estate or Personal Property? Please contact me. Thanks. Frances Keenan e-mail/ fkeenan@suffieldtownhall.com
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| Posted 9/24/2007 |
Solar Energy Exemption I am looking for a blank copy of an application for the solar energy exemption. Thanks. Sylvia Keiser, CCMA II, Assessor's Office, Town of Woodbury, CT, Phone 203-263-2435 Fax: 203-263-2948
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| Posted 9/21/2007 |
Motor Vehicle Exemption for Hybrid Vehicles The Town of Tolland is considering establishing a local ordinance for hybrid automobiles. Will the towns that have established an ordinance or are in the process of doing so please contact me. Any help will be useful. Walter Lawrence, Assessor, Tolland (860) 871-3650
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| Posted 8/14/2007 |
Open Space Policy/Ordinance The town
of
Office of the Assessor,
Town of
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| Posted 7/26/2007 |
Condominium Common Area Are there any municipalities that have common areas in a condominium, or planned community that are being used in whole, or in part for commercial purposes? For example, fitness centers open to the public for a fee. How are these facilities treated? Damon Braasch,
CCMA II
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| Posted 7/9/2007 |
Agreement to Fix Assessment on Multifamily Housing - Statute 12-65
Mansfield is looking to adopt this local ordinance for the construction of our "Downtown Storrs," which is to consist of multi-use buildings, with residential apartments above. I would greatly appreciate receiving some sample ordinances, as well as pertinent advice, from other towns that have already adopted it. I may be reached at: lapointeie@mansfieldct.org or (860) 429-3310. Irene LaPointe, Assessor, CCMA II, Town of Mansfield
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| Posted 06/07/2007 |
Motor Vehicle Tracking I would like to know if any Towns/Cities are using the AAMVA system for tracking automobiles in their Town/City. Have they found it helpful and how does one go about setting up this system. Sylvia Keiser, CCMA II, Assessor's Office, Town of Woodbury, CT Phone (203) 263-2435 Fax: (203) 263-2948 |
| Posted 4/18/2007 |
Multi-Family Home Conversion I was asked to check with the assessment community regarding any municipality that has been asked, or is implementing a program to subsidize multi-family home conversion to single family homes. If so please respond with how it is working administratively and any comments both negative and positive to: Barbara Perry (860)437-6362 bperry@ci.new-london.ct.us
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| Posted 4/10/2007 |
Alternative Fuel and Hybrid Car ExemptionsCan anyone tell me of any legislation (present or pending) that allows a Town to grant exemptions to vehicles that use alternative fuel or hybrid automobiles? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Lucy Beit, Assessor, CCMA II, Town of Montville (860) 848-3030 ext 320
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| Posted 3/2/2007 |
Local Option Freeze Benefit How many cities/towns have adopted the Local Option Freeze benefit and what are the income limits? Please respond to: deborah.gill@cityofmiddletown.com Deborah M. Gill CCMA I Assistant Assessor Assessor's Office PO Box 1300 Middletown, CT 06457 (860) 344-3454 |
| Posted 1/29/2007 |
Board of Assessment Appeals Compensation The Board of Assessment Appeals in Brookfield has asked me if BAA Boards in other towns are paid for their services and how much? They also wanted to know if they were paid differently during revaluation years? Please respond to Ghlavacek@brookfield.org George Hlavacek, CCMA II, Assessor, Town of Brookfield, 100 Pocono Rd, Brookfield CT Phone (203) 775-7302 Fax (203) 775-5317
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| Posted 1/2/2007 |
The Town of Redding would like
to contract with a company to track vehicles improperly registered. However
my First Selectman has some reservations about this process and would like
to see how many Connecticut Towns have used these services and if the end
dollar result was significant. Has your town used a tax fraud service for motor vehicles? Was there an RFP created for these services? What percentage of collection was paid to the company? How many years did you go back? Dollar amount recovered? And What Company they used? Please respond to mfonda@townofreddingct.org |
| Posted 12/28/2006 |
Phase-in after Revaluation My Board of Selectman has asked me to get some written opinions from other CT Assessors regarding their opinions or experience on a phase-in after revaluation. (Pros & Cons) Any response will be greatly appreciated. You can email me @ pdelbuono@thomastonct.org or call me @ (860) 283-0305. Thanks for any input. Pat DelBuono Thomaston Assessor
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| Posted 9/25/2006 |
Local Option Veteran's Exemption I have been asked by the Wolcott Town Council to do a survey of how many municipalities offer a Local Option Veteran’s Exemption, the amount of the exemption and the income limits if they are different from the State guidelines. Please send your response to assessor@wolcottct.org or at 203-879-8100 ext.111. Thank you for your assistance. Pam Deziel, Wolcott Assessor
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| Posted 9/15/2006 |
Active Military Exemption Is an active military serviceman stationed out of state but owns real estate property locally entitled to both a regular veteran exemption on his real estate property and AOA motor vehicle exemption on the vehicle garaged out of state? Please reply to: Ruth Ann Caiola rcaiola@monroect.org
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Posted 8/1/2006
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Prorate Veteran's Exemptions - Local Option The City of Torrington is considering adopting an ordinance to prorate Local Option additional veteran exemptions. Has any town adopted a local option to prorate a local option additional veteran exemption when there is a death with no survivors or sale of the property? If so, please send me a copy of your ordinance, or I would appreciate hearing from you. Thank you. Donna L Patchen, Assessor, City of Torrington, 140 Main St, Torrington CT 06790 Phone (860) 489-2351 Fax (860) 496-5907 donna_patchen@torringtonct.org
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| Posted 7/17/2006 |
Condo Development Rights Is anyone familiar with the valuation of "Condominium Development Rights". If so, will you please e-mail your valuation method. Thank You, Dave Ambrose dambrose@newhavenct.net
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| Posted 7/12/2006 |
Condominiums Partially Declared I am interested in obtaining information on condominiums approved by zoning that are being declared piecemeal, i.e. just prior to sale. Do we, as assessors, value these undeclared units as condominiums or as apartment units? I have a building with 35 units, of which only half have been declared as of 10/01/05. (I valued all as condos under the premise that case law states a subdivision is assessable once it has been approved). Attorney claims that they were approved as both multifamily and condominiums! What about the land and other common areas such as fitness center etc. only a portion? I appreciate any and all input. Contact Barbara Perry (860) 442-0615 or by e-mail at bperry@ci.new-london.ct.us
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| Posted 6/15/2006 |
Local Option Elderly Looking for information on what other municipalities might be using in their Town for local options for the Elderly under 12-129n. Our Town is thinking of adopting this local option and I'm looking for ideas. Any help is greatly appreciated. Robin O'Loughlin, Assessor, Deep River. (860) 526-6029
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| Posted 3/30/2006 |
Forest Land Conveyance I have recently had a conveyance of Forest land in Coventry and we are having difficulty retrieving the conveyance tax due. The Town Clerk may not refuse to take the transfer and they did not pay it. Is there any method to legally force the offender to pay? Can a bill be sent and if not paid can the Collector of Revenue place a lien on the remaining property? If there is no method of retrieval then it should be required by legislators to amend the Statues. Lindell Braasch, Assessor, Coventry
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| Posted 3/13/2006 |
Pharmacy Sales Does anyone have any sales data on free-standing CVS Pharmacies, Walgreen Pharmacies or Brooks Drug Store from January 2003 through March 2006? If so, please provide the date of sale, square footage of bldg and site, along with the sale price. Thanks, Joseph Dakers, Sr. (860) 561-7416
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| Posted 2/24/2006 |
Religious Exemptions One of our local churches sells donated items, to raise money for the church, in a barn on church property that we exempt from taxes. Their question to me is: If they took items on consignment from local antique dealers, would they still be exempt? Sylvia Keiser, Woodbury Assessor skeiser@woodburyct.org.
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| Posted 2/24/2006 |
Farm Exemptions The Town of Tolland assessors office is seeking the name of towns that have enacted a local ordinance as provided in P.A. 94-201 /P.A.93-254 which allows the exempting up to 50% of the property taxes on certain types of farm properties (Dairy, fruit orchards or wine grape vineyards) and the exemptions of up to $100,000 in farm use buildings. If your town has approved this local option could you send a copy of the ordinance to wlawrence@tolland.org.
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| Posted 2/21/2006 |
Planned Unit Developments The Town of Morris is looking for information regarding the valuation of a waterfront gated community (or PUD) with common areas & by-laws. What method is used to assess the common areas? If anyone has information, please let us know. It would be greatly appreciated. Morrisassessor@optonline.net Phone: 860-567-6096 / Fax 860-567-7432 Michele McLaughlin, CCMA I, Assessor, Town of Morris
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| Posted 2/17/2006 |
Tax Fixing Agreement Tom Browne responded to my last inquiry concerning tax fixing agreements on real estate of custodians for disabled, directing me to 12-65g. Has any town, other than Fairfield, adopted this municipal ordinance? jan.neumuth@wethersfieldct.com Jan Neumuth, CCMA II, Assessor, Town of Wethersfield, 860-721-2812.
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| Posted 2/15/2006 |
Land Conservation Easements The Town of Voluntown is seeking information concerning valuation of Land Conservation Easements. If anyone has information regarding this, please let us know. It would be appreciated. Phone: 860-376-3927 Fax: 860-376-3925 e-mail: mperinger@peoplepc.com or bgauthier02@snet.net |
| Posted 1/13/2006 |
GIS Handheld Device Please let me know if anyone is using a GIS handheld device. If so, what type and are you satisfied with it? Thanks, Joyce Jacius, Enfield Assessor Phone (860) 253-6338 or email jjacius@enfield.org
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| Posted 1/10/2006 |
Has anyone any information on TAX CREDITS for real estate modifications for a taxpayer with CUSTODIAL CARE OF A TOTALLY DISABLED PERSON??? I am not aware of any statute allowing such a thing, but a new Council member wants to introduce it as new resolution. Jan Neumuth, CCMA II, Assessor, Town of Wethersfield Phone 860-721-2812 Fax 860-721-2813 jan.neumuth@wethersfieldct.com
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