Board of Assessors Meeting Minutes

Meeting date: 
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Assessors’ Office, Hinsdale Town Hall, 39 South St Hinsdale, MA 01235

posted on 2/24/2022 at 12:15pm (reposted 3/11/22)

PUBLIC ATTENDANCE available via CONFERENCE CALL-IN: GUEST: Dial: (413) 449-5095 then key in 706-954#

Attendance: Vivian Mason (Chairperson), Richard Scialabba (Member), Christopher Cozzaglio (Associate Assessor), Alliey Pevay (Administrative Assessor)  ​

  1. Review and Approve Minutes from November 09, 2021

    1. Motioned by Richard, seconded by Vivian

  2. Old Business

  3. New Business

Approve/deny Motor Vehicle Abatements as Presented

Choosing to wait until the next meeting, only received two and getting SoftRight installed on Thursday

Real Estate/ Personal Property Abatements

Recommendations should be presented next month, Harald and Chris meeting soon

18 arrived on time 1 arrived late

Assessors Update

  1. Alliey moving into main administrative role here, she can be contacted via apevay@rrgsystems.com

  2. Chris looking to do monthly or quarterly meetings inter-departmentally to improve communications between assessors, collectors, and accounting

  3. Boris leaving for a new position in 2 weeks, Jennifer, Clarissa, and Tom Spiro splitting his responsibilities

Discussion of inter-office departmental communications

Exemptions running late caused some inter-departmental snags in communications, Chris is working to smooth those over

Confirm next meeting

Meetings moving to the third week of the month, website will be updated.

February 15th 1:30pm for next scheduled meeting

  Open Forum

  Adjournment 1:52PM

  Motioned by Vivian, seconded by Richard