September 14, 2026 – Board of Assessors – Video & Transcript
September 14, 2026 - Board of Assessors
Okay. So pursuant to Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2025, this meeting will be conducted in person and or via remote access in accordance with applicable law. If this meeting has only remote access, no in-person attendance by members of the public will be permitted.
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Okay. Is that the correct stuff to read, Rob? Yeah, that's good. Okay. Under the word agenda, next time, it says the board will waive the formal reading of the preamble above. So we can save some seconds there. Okay. So the board will waive the formal reading of the preamble above. Okay. And therefore, at 6.05, 6.06 p.m., a call to meeting order by roll call vote.
Doug McNeely here. Zach Ventress here.
Krivišov here. E.G. Bannon here. Steve Klitgaard here. We have a quorum. Are there any public comments?
I see no public comment. Okay. Thank you. Then we'll review the minutes from Monday, August 10th and vote to accept.
Make a motion to accept the minutes as drafted for the 10th.
Doug McNeely second. Okay. All those in favor?
Aye. Zach Ventress, yes. E.G., yes. Doug McNeely, yes. Kriviš, yes. And Steve Klitgaard, yes. It's unanimous. Okay. Rob, I turn it over to you. Thank you. So, it's 6.08.
Correspondence and documents, Board of Assessors, review and or signatures.
It's that time of year again, folks. If you go to page 6 in your packet, it's time for the 2026 Annual Report. For the town report. This is produced by the Board of Assessors. It is two, three, four, six, one, two. Well, you can see it on online here. I hope everyone's had a chance to look at it. This was produced by the office on behalf of the Board. And we, we'd like to submit it. By the deadline of September 30th. So, an approval or comments or edits. Um, it'd be nice to be, yeah, it would be nicely shared tonight so we can finalize it. Moving on to the town administration office. Okay. I have no questions about it.
Is there anyone want to just take a quick quick look.
No, comments, Convinced no comments. Okay. Okay. So. All right, well, during the event I normally do shell always discuss. Okay. But this is the The public. Is you invited. You'll note on the last page, the board members are the board members that were part of the fiscal 2026 board. That's why you see Phillip and Massimo on this list. Understood. No, someplace on here, Rob, I was looking to see whether the assessment rate is in there any place. Is that the type of thing that would be in here, and did I miss it? It's not usually provided. Okay.
Would you like it provided? I was just wondering what, for the people looking at it, I suppose. I happen to like data, and I suppose one of the things that we as a board of assessors do is we end up calculating what the rate is for everybody. I know every year when you do it, you put a nice little summary together of how we calculate it. I'm just wondering whether, and I just don't know whether this is a good spot to also include that, or whether that's like a completely different topic.
Yeah, I think, Stephen, this report really meant about a lot of the activities around, you know, it was defined by a commission many years ago to really focus on the activities of the department and the volume of abatements and other things like that, and not so much the tax rate. Okay. Yeah, I'm fine with not having it in there. It's just one of the things that it's like one of the few things that we actually, let's say, deliver for everybody after all the work that we do is end up with that rate. But if we don't normally have it in there, I'm fine with leaving it off. It'll be out there another time when we actually do it, so it's not like it's never provided.
Okay.
If there's no questions. My apologies. I was out all day, so I didn't have a chance to read the 79-page report, so I'm just scanning it right now, and I'm on like pages 30, you know, around 30, 35. What are all the natures of those about like clause 22, 22A, 22B, 22C? What are those? Okay, EGV. The end of the report is on page 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Okay. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Okay, so don't go that far to page 35. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like very specific. All right, I went too far then. On page 10, at the end of the page, it says end of report. Okay. It starts on page 6. It ends on page 7. It ends on page 8. It ends on page 9. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. Okay. So I jumped ahead. Sorry. Okay. I would be willing to say let's just approve this as provided. And so unless somebody has a question, I'll look for a motion to approve the end report that has been provided to us. Yeah, I would. The only edit I would ask is, Rob, just a section. My name is Zach. You're either Zachariah or Zach. Zach, but not Zachary. That's not a name I go by. Let's see. Can you help me with what page, please? Bottom of the first page. It's the first page of the finance report at the bottom of the first paragraph. It says the board reorganized. Yeah. So either Zachariah Ventress or Zach Ventress. I don't know where that came from. Thank you. Yeah, no worries. All right. That's the only thing that caught my attention. Just to test you, Zach, if you were reading it fully. Okay.
Okay. Can we have a motion then to accept the... Rob, would you like a motion to accept the... Can we have a motion to accept the annual report as presented? Yes, please. So if I can get a motion to accept it as presented with the modification for Zach's name? Yeah. I can make a motion to accept the report for the HEAR report for the town annual materials with the one update of my name. Anyone can have a second? I'll immediately second. All those in favor? Aye.
Zach would take yes.
David Deal, yes.
David Schaff, yes. And Steve Clifford, yes. It's unanimous.
Thank you. If we move to page 11, please.
I will be making the same edit on page 11. Zachary will become Zachariah. Thank you. This is a HEAR report. This is an... I don't believe anyone uses it, but by law, we have to create the same information as part of, quote, a HEAR report. H-E-A-R. It's the same information used at the annual assessors. This report only in a slightly different format. It's the... Again, it's the same information. Hence, Zachary is incorrect. And I'll make that modification as well. This HEAR report, which is a two-page report, will be submitted along with the assessor's annual report by September 30th. So that's page 11 and 12.
What's that, please? That's it. Pages 11 and 12. Yes. Pages 11 and 12. Yes. If there's no questions, can I have a motion to accept this to go along with the finance for the Board of Assessors?
I make a motion to accept and pass along to the finance team on behalf of the Board of Assessors. Do you have a second? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have a second? All those in favor? E.G. Brennan, yes. Zach Fentress, yes. David Dillon, yes. Chris Schroff, yes. And Steve Plitgrod, yes. It's unanimous. Thank you.
On page 13, this is a spreadsheet that helped produce the numbers for the annual town report as well as the annual town report. So this is a report showing all the inspections, what locations, what purpose, what date, and as you slide down, let's go to page 14, you can see in the right-hand column the totals. Sales, complete inspections, exterior only, in-office review, and a refusal, total 15%. So this is multiple pages of reference material for you to understand where the numbers came from for the annual report and the here report. Are there any questions on the spreadsheet? Maybe when the name is Assessor's Office, what does that mean? One more time, please. Yeah, the majority of the time, I can see Tara or Steve's name, but sometimes I can see Assessor's Office. In that case, what does that mean? For the column in the middle. So Rob, if you look at the list of who did it, Tamara did most of them, but every now and then you just see Assessor's Office. It's the person that. Visited the site. That just. That was just someone clicking one of the options, wish it hadn't been Assessor's Office. I wish it was ideally. Well, let me see there, Pelham Island Road, Highland Circle. They may have been, well, no, those are site visits. Okay. Unfortunately, someone clicked Assessor's Office rather than their name. Okay. Because they are complete inspections. Can that be an issue? What's that, please? It cannot be an issue. Can that be what? I don't know. Tamara, if you go to page 13 in the packet, which is the first page of the property visit spreadsheet. About 12 down under VIH initials description that says Assessor's Office rather than someone's name. Okay. Have you and Stephen formulated? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It hasn't been formulated. Oh, I'm sorry. I understand what you're asking. Yes. So very often if Stephen and I both go out, that's how we'll label it. Okay. Good. Just both of you? Yeah. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you. Yes. Other questions. No questions. Okay. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. may i move on yes please i'm on page 25 every year at this time due by september 15th tomorrow the assessor's office along with the financial director have to um submit numbers to the department of revenue through dls gateway it's the cp1 form it's the community preservation surcharge report this is the report it's ready for the board to sign off on surcharge is one and a half percent the committed for the fiscal year 2026 was 1,250,172.14 abatements and exemptions were given back in the in the amount of 5,843.99 and there was an abatement exemption the previous year a settlement of 5130 so the net is 1,244,276 dollars and 85 cents we'd like to upload this to gateway tonight fulfill our obligation of having it in their system as of september 15th so we're asking the board to request a motion to um state that they were notified that we're uploading this this evening okay kind of a motion that we approve the uploading of the uh fy 2026 cpi report as presented yep i can make the motion if you're not in front of your screen zach please yeah please go ahead yep i move that we accept the memo dated 14th of september 2026 for the fy 2026 cp1 community preservation surcharge report and the total surcharge committed is 1,250,172.14 cents with two offsets of the abatements in the amount of 5,843.99 and one abatement for 51.30 cents of a net of 1,244,273.99 and the total surcharge committed is 1,250,172.14 cents with two offsets of the abatement in the amount of 5,843.99 and one abatement for 65.163 dollars and 85 cents can i have a second please can i have a second please i'll second all those in favor iji brenner yes iji brenner yes iji brenner yes dad vicked Elias dad vicked Elias zach venters yes zach venters yes zach venters yes burbis chuck yes burbis chuck yes steve clipboard yes it's unanimous is the screenshot of the report as it shows on DLS Gateway.
They're just looking for those numbers you see on your screen. In the memo, I like to dissect the numbers so you know where they came from.
Okay, do we have to do anything on this one? No, I'm just showing you the screenshot of... Okay. It's ready for uploading to DLS Gateway. Okay, thanks, Rob. Yeah, well, 6-24, we're looking at Whalen Affordable Housing.
So every year, the Regional Housing Service Office does recommended values for Whalen... I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Every year, Regional Housing Services does... provides analysis and recommended maximum values for Whalen Affordable Housing. We received their spreadsheet yesterday.
This year, unlike other years, most of them have had a $20,000 increase in assessed values based on sales. And like most every year, we take their hard work, their valuation, and we include that as part of your assessments for that fiscal year. I just wanted to share that we have updated all Whalen Housing Affordable Homes parcels with the recommendation from the Regional Housing Service. And indeed, I calculated an average increase of 22,368, an increase of 59 parcels, totaling $1,319,717. So it gives you an idea on what's happening on assessments for deed-restricted parcels. Gigi? Which page are you on? I am on no page. Okay, all right. Just make sure. Just make sure I'm not lost. I will state that the next time. Okay. My bad. Thank you.
Are there any questions or concerns about the Whalen Housing assessments?
Nope. I did not share the spreadsheet because first of all, we have yet to provide any proposed values to anyone else in town. And those values, even though we rely on the Regional Housing Service, may change by the time we get to our analysis, finalizing our analysis early October.
So that's why we're not, we're talking about it in open session, but to give information, it wouldn't be apropos at this point in time. Okay. Thank you.
It's 627.
New growth update.
You've yet to get proposed valuations from our personal property vendor, RRC.
We should hear from them by the end of next week with a preliminary notice. number for personal property new growth. Internally, real estate, we're currently around $580,000, $600,000 in new growth. We're putting pencils down September 21st, and then we'll start getting into the disclosure period, which is the next topic. If we go to page 27, the disclosure period will be Monday, October 19th to the end of the day on Friday, October 23rd. On Friday, October 16th, we will have on the website all the proposed valuations for FY2027. We'll have our standard assessment summary information. As well, and sales from calendar year 2025. So people can use that as a tool to judge their values as well.
The next page on page 28 is the postcard that will be mailed last week of September. Yellow postcard mailed to every parcel owner in town. Stating that the 27 values will be proposed values. Our review will be done October 16th. Disclosure is the 19th through the 23rd. Go to the website. Take a look at your proposed value. If you don't have a computer, contact the office. In any case, if there's anything you see as a major discrepancy, or you think there's a problem with our information, please reach out and we'll set up site visits to take a look at that individual parcel or parcels.
Hey, Rob, you make a comment about how, because we're always a year late, I'll call it in terms of the sales we use, and the sales in 2025 were very robust. Are you expecting a few people to be shocked at how much that increase will be? I'm not making guesses on how people react to the postcard and or their assessment. The facts are, calendar year 2025 sales were, the inventory was less, and the market value still exceeds assessed values in the town of Whalen, Massachusetts. Yep.
Okay. Okay?
Classification hearing? So once we have our disclosure period, after that disclosure period, of which we provide a week, of going out to people's homes or commercial sites wherever, to answer their questions or take some of their documents, right? time to reassess if we see problems. We then submit our values, submit our growth, and after certification of growth and our values, we have a classification hearing. We provide an information session for the select board so they can vote on a tax rate, whether it's uniform or split. And they also will look at other exemptions, such as an open space discount, residential, or small commercial exemption. That has been scheduled for 7-15 on Monday, November 16th. Okay. Rob? I believe I read in the Wayland Post that, is it the Economic Development Commission? Like, someone was looking at advising a split tax rate for Wayland, even though, like, really, you know, there's not a lot of, like, we're very different than the communities that have ever used the split tax rate. Um. That was just surprising to hear that. So are you anticipating the Finance Committee proposing a split tax rate for the first time? I was approached, in June time, uh, May timeframe by a committee of the Economic Development Committee… Yeah. Wanted to, room … Um. Commercial sites in town, other information. I provided a workflow and backed those things home. Yeah. provided that information, and the discussion was based on a potential split rate. I just checked the minutes of that committee. They're missing minutes for the last four meetings, so I don't know the result of this office sharing information. I've heard and I have also read, as you, that the committee is looking at pushing a split tax rate for fiscal 2027. Yeah. I mean, we're generally apolitical on this committee, so it's just surprising when you see proposals that... The math doesn't really work out if that's what they're trying to do. The significant downside for the commercial... The very limited commercial base... Yeah. ...the very limited commercial base... Yeah. We have in Wayland will... Yeah.
Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I agree. Not sure that it really... It's kind of the opposite of what I would expect from an economic development committee. Well, if I read the same article you read, I think the cost savings for a single family dwelling was $90. That's directionally correct, what I read too, yes. And again, it's... But then, on the flip side, I think the increase to the commercial property owners, which will just get passed on through... You know... So, yeah, we'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Yeah. We'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Yeah. We'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Yeah. We'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Well, I would hope that it doesn't become one, only because I'd be concerned that with our limited small businesses, we may actually lose some tax base as opposed to making more revenue from them. Yeah. Yeah, that's my concern as well, Steven. It seems counterintuitive that that would be a viable proposal from a group that's trying to attract more businesses to town. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Next item. Next item. On the 2027 annual proposed articles. So, there are some new clauses available to cities and towns. If we go to page... If we go to page 30, actually go to page 31, please, there's a clause 22I. If we go to page 30, actually go to page 31, please, there's a clause 22I. So, for clause 22, 22A, 22B, C, E, and F, if the town would vote to accept, these clauses would get a cost of living adjustment based on the consumer price index. So, for clause 22, 22A, 22B, C, E, and F, if the town would vote to accept, these clauses would get a cost of living adjustment based on the consumer price index. So, for clause 22, 22A, 22B, C, E, and F, if the town would vote to accept, these clauses would get a cost of living adjustment based on the consumer price index. based on the consumer price index determined by the department of revenue so this would have to be
i would assume pushed by the board i can create an article
we can work with carol martin to make sure that this gets on the um town warrant if the board is interested in providing a cola on top of those exemptions red
no the number of people that are actually uh in whalen very small number i assume
for those clauses yep they're about 50.
approximately so technically speaking it might cost us 100 bucks or so so i was just jumping ahead so those were the ones i was asking so these are new provisions we could do to give extra exemptions to veterans and etc is that how i'm interpreting them the example um if you look on the same page for example if a clause 22 recipient will be four hundred dollars than a final budget per year that would be like $400 and the cpi increases by five percent that four hundred would become 420 dollars so twenty dollars more the following year the cpi could be something totally different it could be 10 percent so it's additional forty dollars so c insist on an annual basis so the four hundred we already give that to the veterans yes where are we're just voting whether to increase it to 420 or yes okay thank you you're welcome i mean i'm all for uh you know giving the veterans as much as they're entitled to so i'm i'm good with that in whalen we have a bylaw that matches the that exemption as well so right now today a clause 22 will receive 400 dollars and then the town will match that four hundred dollars to equal eight hundred dollars that match by the town is not reimbursable the original four hundred dollars is a pro-rated reimbursement from the state so today we um if someone is a successful applicant they receive four hundred dollars the town matches it with four hundred dollars their exemption is eight hundred dollars in this new scenario if the town accepts it they'll receive four hundred dollars plus an increase let's say five percent for this example it would be 420 the town has a bylaw that will match that 420 they'll end up with 840 dollars
and and get this right the state pays for the first part and we pay for the 400 or the 420. the state has a prorated reimbursement of the 400.
so if we would approve this then use this example going from 400 to 420 assuming we have 50 people who currently apply for it in this one year that means that we would be adding to these total pool a thousand dollars i think my math is correct
20 times 50. yep but some of our if i can interject um some of our recipients uh applicants have um different exemptions that that were um exempting more than the 400 so okay it will vary okay but we're talking in the range of this you know a thousand dollars or so would be the impact if we were to add this but 20 clause 22 um average number of recipients that we have 50
for that clause only would be plus or minus a thousand dollars yeah then you have clause 22a b c d i excuse me c e and f so that would vary if the board would like to uh this office to come back with what the implications are for the other clauses we can do so and you can talk about it next meeting i would be amenable to doing this i'm not sure other people but from my perspective considering uh i just say since these are veterans and i would be perfectly happy to consider uh doing this and getting more information rob would be good for me in terms of the other a b c you know the other clauses what would be in there i agree with that i'm definitely supportive of giving whatever it is uh you know available to the veterans but just maybe just make sure we know how much it is it might be helpful to me to be able to you know bring in all of the resources uh we're gonna have a little bit of time uh but i would appreciate it and you can blend it in with the comments if you have any uh questions all about veterans when we have a chance we would be happy to answer it and we have a couple things to do in the future so i'd love to see if you have any see you know roughly what it is you know if it's it sounds like it's not going to be very much so
we'll be glad to provide those numbers for you next meeting
and perhaps at the next meeting uh the board can
i don't know if you want to do it by vote or consensus or how you want to handle it but maybe move forward on this and have the office prepare the articles so you can review them the following meeting and then present them to carol for the warrant so rob questioned here for the the scope of the board of assessors for me it feels like something that would be asked to the town during during a town meeting for voters so what's the what's the role of the board of assessors in these adjustments someone has to bring an article to the uh to the warrant so the townspeople can vote to accept it so it's the wording that we are reviewing for proposal into the uh bulletin okay so i'm the office is suggesting that the board of assessors bring this article to the warrant yep okay thank you you're welcome so the why which group is asking us to bring an article to the warrant no one is okay the office is suggesting the board of assessors bring it to the warrant since it involves giving exemption
the board of assessors are the entity that gives exemptions
the board of assessors are the entity that gives exemptions my only thinking then is you mentioned rob a bylaw where we are doubling doubling the exemption
and i don't see anything mentioned here so is that relevant for context to have it in the warrant or it would confuse people for the voting
this new article
would provide a increase a cola increase on an annual basis to the clause clauses we've discussed that have already been adopted by the town the bylaw is existing whaling decided years ago that whatever that amount of money is we're going to match it
and yeah that's that's the context i mean for people who don't know anything where can they refer because my thinking is okay i want to understand what what's the total exemption that whalen's gonna pay increase or no increase and to give some context as to how much increase that would be so where can people look then
we have a one page two-sided document or two pages if you print it out single page That gives all the clauses that the town has adopted, all the statutory clauses and other programs that the town of Wayland have voted on at town meeting to provide exemptions and relief for applicants.
There's a set amount of, Clovis, this is your third meeting and there's a lot to learn. We have things on the website. Next meeting, we'll try to provide you the documents I just told you we have existing.
We'll try to give you some information next time. Okay, that works. Thank you. Honestly, that's because I'm discovering all the details here, the minutia. So, yeah. Thank you, Rob. You're welcome.
So, clause 22I provides a COLA. What is 22J? 22J says you can increase it by 100%.
So, that 420 would become 840. However, we already have a... Bylaw in town, in the town of Wayland that doubles it. So, the need for clause 22J.
I'm not certain the board's interested in adopting that since we already have a bylaw that doubles it.
Yeah. Do you want to adopt a clause and have the program run through the state? Or do you want to keep your own bylaw and have the program run through the local community rather than the state?
Because the local bylaw, you can change it anytime. You can have what you want. You can increase it. You can decrease it. You can leave it alone. You can remove it. Yeah. Yeah.
And if you don't have control over what the state does and town hasn't budgeted for that, that sounds like a little... It would be messy. Yeah, it sounds like 22J is unnecessary to adopt. So, again, we'll revisit this next meeting. Yep. Excellent. You can revisit this at your leisure. The other thing I want to point out is on page 32 in your packet, at the top, there is a H clause veteran... Well, okay. So, number six, top of your packet, page 32, underlined, a veteran will qualify for motor vehicle exemption if the VA determines they have 100% disability. So, number six, top of your packet, page 32, underlined, a veteran will qualify for motor vehicle exemption if the VA determines they have 100% disability or deems them unemployable. We put this into action last fiscal year. So, in 2026, we put this into action. It was automatic from the Department of Revenue. Just wanted to bring the board up to speed since it's on this page. We are currently doing this for the veteran. So, it was once... Only... Only 100% disability is now 100% disability or deemed unemployable. Okay.
And this was part of the HERO Act, which is on page 33.
So, more reading from the board. It goes from 33 to 38.
Doug, I know you're 7 p.m. No, I'm actually okay. So, the meeting at 7 is something someone else rescheduled. So, they... They can hang tight. Okay. Thank you. I got myself on too many boards is my problem. We'll press on. It's 51. 51.
Rob, was that our last agenda item before moving to executive session? No. Senior tax workoff, we're on page...
Page 30. Page 30. Page 30. Page 30. We received an email from Joel DeMello of the Boston Public Library. He's the statewide digitizing assistant. And he wrote to us just last week that the last set of assessor books, volumes that we brought to the library have been scanned and now are available to the world. So, we're continuing this process. Just want to say thank you. wanted to give the board an update that it's continuing and people are enjoying the fact that it's out there on the web and they can use it for resources nice rob remind us the years of those uh those old books oh boy uh what's the camera 18 i don't know the range sorry i'll provide that next meeting what like 1800s or 1900s uh we're currently at the last uh the last submission from us for scanning was uh 1930s through 60s maybe oh wow okay that's pretty exciting but we have some older ones than that here as well yes a lot of okay 653 uh tamra keith will be out of the office four to six weeks starting monday september 21st uh we wish her a speedy recovery and um she may have the possibility of working remotely should she feel up to it so um you know i'm not sure if i'm going to be able to do that but i'm going to be able to do that we wish her well also want to congratulate stephen foley on his recent step increase and uh to finalize the review eeg and clovis um just wanted to ask how course 101 is going have you started course 101 you're muted eeg you're muted this is a dor course right you're talking about um i haven't started but it's on my list to do okay so when it comes to signing off on certified values certified growth certified tax rate everything that we need to do electronically you will not be able to sign off on those uh until you complete dor course 101 so anything you need from the office is going to be available to you and we'll try to push you through as quick as possible okay clovis started either yeah okay may i contact you both tomorrow uh excuse me wednesday sure and uh make sure that we have a game plan or at least you know what you need to do and again we'll be happy to support you we'll let you know as soon as we can that's works yeah okay great any topics not reasonably considered prior to the posting of the agenda none to my knowledge generic uh generic members uh thoughts and concerns nope none no concerns our proposed meeting is october 29th uh poder we have called just three hours thisike October 5th, 6 p.m., open session, 6.30, executive session.
And, Stephen, we're ready to close this meeting, go into executive session. And would you kindly read why we're going into executive session? Right. I'll read it and then ask for a roll call vote afterwards. So, at 6.56 p.m., we'll be planning to adjourn to enter an executive session for persons who comply with GLC 59, Section 60, and GLC 214, Section 1B, as permitted, by Purpose 7 of GLC 30A, Section 21A, to review and discuss the following. Review the minutes from Monday, August 10th to 8 p.m. Accept and release. To discuss motor vehicle abatements for the month of August, vote to accept. And to review FY2026 appellate tax board cases to date. And there's a list of about 20 dockets that we will be reviewing. I don't see any reason to repeat the names of each one of those, as well as the 2027 appellate tax board cases to date. One. One docket for level three communications. And then the board will not return to open meeting afterwards. So, by roll call vote, at 6.57 p.m., Steve Clifford. Doug McNeely. E.G. Brennan. Zach Ventris. Zach Ventris. And by unanimous, the meeting is adjourned. We shall return to the other side for the executive session. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Okay. Is that the correct stuff to read, Rob? Yeah, that's good. Okay. Under the word agenda, next time, it says the board will waive the formal reading of the preamble above. So we can save some seconds there. Okay. So the board will waive the formal reading of the preamble above. Okay. And therefore, at 6.05, 6.06 p.m., a call to meeting order by roll call vote.
Doug McNeely here. Zach Ventress here.
Krivišov here. E.G. Bannon here. Steve Klitgaard here. We have a quorum. Are there any public comments?
I see no public comment. Okay. Thank you. Then we'll review the minutes from Monday, August 10th and vote to accept.
Make a motion to accept the minutes as drafted for the 10th.
Doug McNeely second. Okay. All those in favor?
Aye. Zach Ventress, yes. E.G., yes. Doug McNeely, yes. Kriviš, yes. And Steve Klitgaard, yes. It's unanimous. Okay. Rob, I turn it over to you. Thank you. So, it's 6.08.
Correspondence and documents, Board of Assessors, review and or signatures.
It's that time of year again, folks. If you go to page 6 in your packet, it's time for the 2026 Annual Report. For the town report. This is produced by the Board of Assessors. It is two, three, four, six, one, two. Well, you can see it on online here. I hope everyone's had a chance to look at it. This was produced by the office on behalf of the Board. And we, we'd like to submit it. By the deadline of September 30th. So, an approval or comments or edits. Um, it'd be nice to be, yeah, it would be nicely shared tonight so we can finalize it. Moving on to the town administration office. Okay. I have no questions about it.
Is there anyone want to just take a quick quick look.
No, comments, Convinced no comments. Okay. Okay. So. All right, well, during the event I normally do shell always discuss. Okay. But this is the The public. Is you invited. You'll note on the last page, the board members are the board members that were part of the fiscal 2026 board. That's why you see Phillip and Massimo on this list. Understood. No, someplace on here, Rob, I was looking to see whether the assessment rate is in there any place. Is that the type of thing that would be in here, and did I miss it? It's not usually provided. Okay.
Would you like it provided? I was just wondering what, for the people looking at it, I suppose. I happen to like data, and I suppose one of the things that we as a board of assessors do is we end up calculating what the rate is for everybody. I know every year when you do it, you put a nice little summary together of how we calculate it. I'm just wondering whether, and I just don't know whether this is a good spot to also include that, or whether that's like a completely different topic.
Yeah, I think, Stephen, this report really meant about a lot of the activities around, you know, it was defined by a commission many years ago to really focus on the activities of the department and the volume of abatements and other things like that, and not so much the tax rate. Okay. Yeah, I'm fine with not having it in there. It's just one of the things that it's like one of the few things that we actually, let's say, deliver for everybody after all the work that we do is end up with that rate. But if we don't normally have it in there, I'm fine with leaving it off. It'll be out there another time when we actually do it, so it's not like it's never provided.
Okay.
If there's no questions. My apologies. I was out all day, so I didn't have a chance to read the 79-page report, so I'm just scanning it right now, and I'm on like pages 30, you know, around 30, 35. What are all the natures of those about like clause 22, 22A, 22B, 22C? What are those? Okay, EGV. The end of the report is on page 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Okay. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Okay, so don't go that far to page 35. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like very specific. All right, I went too far then. On page 10, at the end of the page, it says end of report. Okay. It starts on page 6. It ends on page 7. It ends on page 8. It ends on page 9. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. It ends on page 10. Okay. So I jumped ahead. Sorry. Okay. I would be willing to say let's just approve this as provided. And so unless somebody has a question, I'll look for a motion to approve the end report that has been provided to us. Yeah, I would. The only edit I would ask is, Rob, just a section. My name is Zach. You're either Zachariah or Zach. Zach, but not Zachary. That's not a name I go by. Let's see. Can you help me with what page, please? Bottom of the first page. It's the first page of the finance report at the bottom of the first paragraph. It says the board reorganized. Yeah. So either Zachariah Ventress or Zach Ventress. I don't know where that came from. Thank you. Yeah, no worries. All right. That's the only thing that caught my attention. Just to test you, Zach, if you were reading it fully. Okay.
Okay. Can we have a motion then to accept the... Rob, would you like a motion to accept the... Can we have a motion to accept the annual report as presented? Yes, please. So if I can get a motion to accept it as presented with the modification for Zach's name? Yeah. I can make a motion to accept the report for the HEAR report for the town annual materials with the one update of my name. Anyone can have a second? I'll immediately second. All those in favor? Aye.
Zach would take yes.
David Deal, yes.
David Schaff, yes. And Steve Clifford, yes. It's unanimous.
Thank you. If we move to page 11, please.
I will be making the same edit on page 11. Zachary will become Zachariah. Thank you. This is a HEAR report. This is an... I don't believe anyone uses it, but by law, we have to create the same information as part of, quote, a HEAR report. H-E-A-R. It's the same information used at the annual assessors. This report only in a slightly different format. It's the... Again, it's the same information. Hence, Zachary is incorrect. And I'll make that modification as well. This HEAR report, which is a two-page report, will be submitted along with the assessor's annual report by September 30th. So that's page 11 and 12.
What's that, please? That's it. Pages 11 and 12. Yes. Pages 11 and 12. Yes. If there's no questions, can I have a motion to accept this to go along with the finance for the Board of Assessors?
I make a motion to accept and pass along to the finance team on behalf of the Board of Assessors. Do you have a second? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have a second? All those in favor? E.G. Brennan, yes. Zach Fentress, yes. David Dillon, yes. Chris Schroff, yes. And Steve Plitgrod, yes. It's unanimous. Thank you.
On page 13, this is a spreadsheet that helped produce the numbers for the annual town report as well as the annual town report. So this is a report showing all the inspections, what locations, what purpose, what date, and as you slide down, let's go to page 14, you can see in the right-hand column the totals. Sales, complete inspections, exterior only, in-office review, and a refusal, total 15%. So this is multiple pages of reference material for you to understand where the numbers came from for the annual report and the here report. Are there any questions on the spreadsheet? Maybe when the name is Assessor's Office, what does that mean? One more time, please. Yeah, the majority of the time, I can see Tara or Steve's name, but sometimes I can see Assessor's Office. In that case, what does that mean? For the column in the middle. So Rob, if you look at the list of who did it, Tamara did most of them, but every now and then you just see Assessor's Office. It's the person that. Visited the site. That just. That was just someone clicking one of the options, wish it hadn't been Assessor's Office. I wish it was ideally. Well, let me see there, Pelham Island Road, Highland Circle. They may have been, well, no, those are site visits. Okay. Unfortunately, someone clicked Assessor's Office rather than their name. Okay. Because they are complete inspections. Can that be an issue? What's that, please? It cannot be an issue. Can that be what? I don't know. Tamara, if you go to page 13 in the packet, which is the first page of the property visit spreadsheet. About 12 down under VIH initials description that says Assessor's Office rather than someone's name. Okay. Have you and Stephen formulated? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It hasn't been formulated. Oh, I'm sorry. I understand what you're asking. Yes. So very often if Stephen and I both go out, that's how we'll label it. Okay. Good. Just both of you? Yeah. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you. Yes. Other questions. No questions. Okay. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. may i move on yes please i'm on page 25 every year at this time due by september 15th tomorrow the assessor's office along with the financial director have to um submit numbers to the department of revenue through dls gateway it's the cp1 form it's the community preservation surcharge report this is the report it's ready for the board to sign off on surcharge is one and a half percent the committed for the fiscal year 2026 was 1,250,172.14 abatements and exemptions were given back in the in the amount of 5,843.99 and there was an abatement exemption the previous year a settlement of 5130 so the net is 1,244,276 dollars and 85 cents we'd like to upload this to gateway tonight fulfill our obligation of having it in their system as of september 15th so we're asking the board to request a motion to um state that they were notified that we're uploading this this evening okay kind of a motion that we approve the uploading of the uh fy 2026 cpi report as presented yep i can make the motion if you're not in front of your screen zach please yeah please go ahead yep i move that we accept the memo dated 14th of september 2026 for the fy 2026 cp1 community preservation surcharge report and the total surcharge committed is 1,250,172.14 cents with two offsets of the abatements in the amount of 5,843.99 and one abatement for 51.30 cents of a net of 1,244,273.99 and the total surcharge committed is 1,250,172.14 cents with two offsets of the abatement in the amount of 5,843.99 and one abatement for 65.163 dollars and 85 cents can i have a second please can i have a second please i'll second all those in favor iji brenner yes iji brenner yes iji brenner yes dad vicked Elias dad vicked Elias zach venters yes zach venters yes zach venters yes burbis chuck yes burbis chuck yes steve clipboard yes it's unanimous is the screenshot of the report as it shows on DLS Gateway.
They're just looking for those numbers you see on your screen. In the memo, I like to dissect the numbers so you know where they came from.
Okay, do we have to do anything on this one? No, I'm just showing you the screenshot of... Okay. It's ready for uploading to DLS Gateway. Okay, thanks, Rob. Yeah, well, 6-24, we're looking at Whalen Affordable Housing.
So every year, the Regional Housing Service Office does recommended values for Whalen... I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Every year, Regional Housing Services does... provides analysis and recommended maximum values for Whalen Affordable Housing. We received their spreadsheet yesterday.
This year, unlike other years, most of them have had a $20,000 increase in assessed values based on sales. And like most every year, we take their hard work, their valuation, and we include that as part of your assessments for that fiscal year. I just wanted to share that we have updated all Whalen Housing Affordable Homes parcels with the recommendation from the Regional Housing Service. And indeed, I calculated an average increase of 22,368, an increase of 59 parcels, totaling $1,319,717. So it gives you an idea on what's happening on assessments for deed-restricted parcels. Gigi? Which page are you on? I am on no page. Okay, all right. Just make sure. Just make sure I'm not lost. I will state that the next time. Okay. My bad. Thank you.
Are there any questions or concerns about the Whalen Housing assessments?
Nope. I did not share the spreadsheet because first of all, we have yet to provide any proposed values to anyone else in town. And those values, even though we rely on the Regional Housing Service, may change by the time we get to our analysis, finalizing our analysis early October.
So that's why we're not, we're talking about it in open session, but to give information, it wouldn't be apropos at this point in time. Okay. Thank you.
It's 627.
New growth update.
You've yet to get proposed valuations from our personal property vendor, RRC.
We should hear from them by the end of next week with a preliminary notice. number for personal property new growth. Internally, real estate, we're currently around $580,000, $600,000 in new growth. We're putting pencils down September 21st, and then we'll start getting into the disclosure period, which is the next topic. If we go to page 27, the disclosure period will be Monday, October 19th to the end of the day on Friday, October 23rd. On Friday, October 16th, we will have on the website all the proposed valuations for FY2027. We'll have our standard assessment summary information. As well, and sales from calendar year 2025. So people can use that as a tool to judge their values as well.
The next page on page 28 is the postcard that will be mailed last week of September. Yellow postcard mailed to every parcel owner in town. Stating that the 27 values will be proposed values. Our review will be done October 16th. Disclosure is the 19th through the 23rd. Go to the website. Take a look at your proposed value. If you don't have a computer, contact the office. In any case, if there's anything you see as a major discrepancy, or you think there's a problem with our information, please reach out and we'll set up site visits to take a look at that individual parcel or parcels.
Hey, Rob, you make a comment about how, because we're always a year late, I'll call it in terms of the sales we use, and the sales in 2025 were very robust. Are you expecting a few people to be shocked at how much that increase will be? I'm not making guesses on how people react to the postcard and or their assessment. The facts are, calendar year 2025 sales were, the inventory was less, and the market value still exceeds assessed values in the town of Whalen, Massachusetts. Yep.
Okay. Okay?
Classification hearing? So once we have our disclosure period, after that disclosure period, of which we provide a week, of going out to people's homes or commercial sites wherever, to answer their questions or take some of their documents, right? time to reassess if we see problems. We then submit our values, submit our growth, and after certification of growth and our values, we have a classification hearing. We provide an information session for the select board so they can vote on a tax rate, whether it's uniform or split. And they also will look at other exemptions, such as an open space discount, residential, or small commercial exemption. That has been scheduled for 7-15 on Monday, November 16th. Okay. Rob? I believe I read in the Wayland Post that, is it the Economic Development Commission? Like, someone was looking at advising a split tax rate for Wayland, even though, like, really, you know, there's not a lot of, like, we're very different than the communities that have ever used the split tax rate. Um. That was just surprising to hear that. So are you anticipating the Finance Committee proposing a split tax rate for the first time? I was approached, in June time, uh, May timeframe by a committee of the Economic Development Committee… Yeah. Wanted to, room … Um. Commercial sites in town, other information. I provided a workflow and backed those things home. Yeah. provided that information, and the discussion was based on a potential split rate. I just checked the minutes of that committee. They're missing minutes for the last four meetings, so I don't know the result of this office sharing information. I've heard and I have also read, as you, that the committee is looking at pushing a split tax rate for fiscal 2027. Yeah. I mean, we're generally apolitical on this committee, so it's just surprising when you see proposals that... The math doesn't really work out if that's what they're trying to do. The significant downside for the commercial... The very limited commercial base... Yeah. ...the very limited commercial base... Yeah. We have in Wayland will... Yeah.
Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I agree. Not sure that it really... It's kind of the opposite of what I would expect from an economic development committee. Well, if I read the same article you read, I think the cost savings for a single family dwelling was $90. That's directionally correct, what I read too, yes. And again, it's... But then, on the flip side, I think the increase to the commercial property owners, which will just get passed on through... You know... So, yeah, we'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Yeah. We'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Yeah. We'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Yeah. We'll just have to see where that goes, and I guess be prepared to answer questions. Well, I would hope that it doesn't become one, only because I'd be concerned that with our limited small businesses, we may actually lose some tax base as opposed to making more revenue from them. Yeah. Yeah, that's my concern as well, Steven. It seems counterintuitive that that would be a viable proposal from a group that's trying to attract more businesses to town. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Next item. Next item. On the 2027 annual proposed articles. So, there are some new clauses available to cities and towns. If we go to page... If we go to page 30, actually go to page 31, please, there's a clause 22I. If we go to page 30, actually go to page 31, please, there's a clause 22I. So, for clause 22, 22A, 22B, C, E, and F, if the town would vote to accept, these clauses would get a cost of living adjustment based on the consumer price index. So, for clause 22, 22A, 22B, C, E, and F, if the town would vote to accept, these clauses would get a cost of living adjustment based on the consumer price index. So, for clause 22, 22A, 22B, C, E, and F, if the town would vote to accept, these clauses would get a cost of living adjustment based on the consumer price index. based on the consumer price index determined by the department of revenue so this would have to be
i would assume pushed by the board i can create an article
we can work with carol martin to make sure that this gets on the um town warrant if the board is interested in providing a cola on top of those exemptions red
no the number of people that are actually uh in whalen very small number i assume
for those clauses yep they're about 50.
approximately so technically speaking it might cost us 100 bucks or so so i was just jumping ahead so those were the ones i was asking so these are new provisions we could do to give extra exemptions to veterans and etc is that how i'm interpreting them the example um if you look on the same page for example if a clause 22 recipient will be four hundred dollars than a final budget per year that would be like $400 and the cpi increases by five percent that four hundred would become 420 dollars so twenty dollars more the following year the cpi could be something totally different it could be 10 percent so it's additional forty dollars so c insist on an annual basis so the four hundred we already give that to the veterans yes where are we're just voting whether to increase it to 420 or yes okay thank you you're welcome i mean i'm all for uh you know giving the veterans as much as they're entitled to so i'm i'm good with that in whalen we have a bylaw that matches the that exemption as well so right now today a clause 22 will receive 400 dollars and then the town will match that four hundred dollars to equal eight hundred dollars that match by the town is not reimbursable the original four hundred dollars is a pro-rated reimbursement from the state so today we um if someone is a successful applicant they receive four hundred dollars the town matches it with four hundred dollars their exemption is eight hundred dollars in this new scenario if the town accepts it they'll receive four hundred dollars plus an increase let's say five percent for this example it would be 420 the town has a bylaw that will match that 420 they'll end up with 840 dollars
and and get this right the state pays for the first part and we pay for the 400 or the 420. the state has a prorated reimbursement of the 400.
so if we would approve this then use this example going from 400 to 420 assuming we have 50 people who currently apply for it in this one year that means that we would be adding to these total pool a thousand dollars i think my math is correct
20 times 50. yep but some of our if i can interject um some of our recipients uh applicants have um different exemptions that that were um exempting more than the 400 so okay it will vary okay but we're talking in the range of this you know a thousand dollars or so would be the impact if we were to add this but 20 clause 22 um average number of recipients that we have 50
for that clause only would be plus or minus a thousand dollars yeah then you have clause 22a b c d i excuse me c e and f so that would vary if the board would like to uh this office to come back with what the implications are for the other clauses we can do so and you can talk about it next meeting i would be amenable to doing this i'm not sure other people but from my perspective considering uh i just say since these are veterans and i would be perfectly happy to consider uh doing this and getting more information rob would be good for me in terms of the other a b c you know the other clauses what would be in there i agree with that i'm definitely supportive of giving whatever it is uh you know available to the veterans but just maybe just make sure we know how much it is it might be helpful to me to be able to you know bring in all of the resources uh we're gonna have a little bit of time uh but i would appreciate it and you can blend it in with the comments if you have any uh questions all about veterans when we have a chance we would be happy to answer it and we have a couple things to do in the future so i'd love to see if you have any see you know roughly what it is you know if it's it sounds like it's not going to be very much so
we'll be glad to provide those numbers for you next meeting
and perhaps at the next meeting uh the board can
i don't know if you want to do it by vote or consensus or how you want to handle it but maybe move forward on this and have the office prepare the articles so you can review them the following meeting and then present them to carol for the warrant so rob questioned here for the the scope of the board of assessors for me it feels like something that would be asked to the town during during a town meeting for voters so what's the what's the role of the board of assessors in these adjustments someone has to bring an article to the uh to the warrant so the townspeople can vote to accept it so it's the wording that we are reviewing for proposal into the uh bulletin okay so i'm the office is suggesting that the board of assessors bring this article to the warrant yep okay thank you you're welcome so the why which group is asking us to bring an article to the warrant no one is okay the office is suggesting the board of assessors bring it to the warrant since it involves giving exemption
the board of assessors are the entity that gives exemptions
the board of assessors are the entity that gives exemptions my only thinking then is you mentioned rob a bylaw where we are doubling doubling the exemption
and i don't see anything mentioned here so is that relevant for context to have it in the warrant or it would confuse people for the voting
this new article
would provide a increase a cola increase on an annual basis to the clause clauses we've discussed that have already been adopted by the town the bylaw is existing whaling decided years ago that whatever that amount of money is we're going to match it
and yeah that's that's the context i mean for people who don't know anything where can they refer because my thinking is okay i want to understand what what's the total exemption that whalen's gonna pay increase or no increase and to give some context as to how much increase that would be so where can people look then
we have a one page two-sided document or two pages if you print it out single page That gives all the clauses that the town has adopted, all the statutory clauses and other programs that the town of Wayland have voted on at town meeting to provide exemptions and relief for applicants.
There's a set amount of, Clovis, this is your third meeting and there's a lot to learn. We have things on the website. Next meeting, we'll try to provide you the documents I just told you we have existing.
We'll try to give you some information next time. Okay, that works. Thank you. Honestly, that's because I'm discovering all the details here, the minutia. So, yeah. Thank you, Rob. You're welcome.
So, clause 22I provides a COLA. What is 22J? 22J says you can increase it by 100%.
So, that 420 would become 840. However, we already have a... Bylaw in town, in the town of Wayland that doubles it. So, the need for clause 22J.
I'm not certain the board's interested in adopting that since we already have a bylaw that doubles it.
Yeah. Do you want to adopt a clause and have the program run through the state? Or do you want to keep your own bylaw and have the program run through the local community rather than the state?
Because the local bylaw, you can change it anytime. You can have what you want. You can increase it. You can decrease it. You can leave it alone. You can remove it. Yeah. Yeah.
And if you don't have control over what the state does and town hasn't budgeted for that, that sounds like a little... It would be messy. Yeah, it sounds like 22J is unnecessary to adopt. So, again, we'll revisit this next meeting. Yep. Excellent. You can revisit this at your leisure. The other thing I want to point out is on page 32 in your packet, at the top, there is a H clause veteran... Well, okay. So, number six, top of your packet, page 32, underlined, a veteran will qualify for motor vehicle exemption if the VA determines they have 100% disability. So, number six, top of your packet, page 32, underlined, a veteran will qualify for motor vehicle exemption if the VA determines they have 100% disability or deems them unemployable. We put this into action last fiscal year. So, in 2026, we put this into action. It was automatic from the Department of Revenue. Just wanted to bring the board up to speed since it's on this page. We are currently doing this for the veteran. So, it was once... Only... Only 100% disability is now 100% disability or deemed unemployable. Okay.
And this was part of the HERO Act, which is on page 33.
So, more reading from the board. It goes from 33 to 38.
Doug, I know you're 7 p.m. No, I'm actually okay. So, the meeting at 7 is something someone else rescheduled. So, they... They can hang tight. Okay. Thank you. I got myself on too many boards is my problem. We'll press on. It's 51. 51.
Rob, was that our last agenda item before moving to executive session? No. Senior tax workoff, we're on page...
Page 30. Page 30. Page 30. Page 30. We received an email from Joel DeMello of the Boston Public Library. He's the statewide digitizing assistant. And he wrote to us just last week that the last set of assessor books, volumes that we brought to the library have been scanned and now are available to the world. So, we're continuing this process. Just want to say thank you. wanted to give the board an update that it's continuing and people are enjoying the fact that it's out there on the web and they can use it for resources nice rob remind us the years of those uh those old books oh boy uh what's the camera 18 i don't know the range sorry i'll provide that next meeting what like 1800s or 1900s uh we're currently at the last uh the last submission from us for scanning was uh 1930s through 60s maybe oh wow okay that's pretty exciting but we have some older ones than that here as well yes a lot of okay 653 uh tamra keith will be out of the office four to six weeks starting monday september 21st uh we wish her a speedy recovery and um she may have the possibility of working remotely should she feel up to it so um you know i'm not sure if i'm going to be able to do that but i'm going to be able to do that we wish her well also want to congratulate stephen foley on his recent step increase and uh to finalize the review eeg and clovis um just wanted to ask how course 101 is going have you started course 101 you're muted eeg you're muted this is a dor course right you're talking about um i haven't started but it's on my list to do okay so when it comes to signing off on certified values certified growth certified tax rate everything that we need to do electronically you will not be able to sign off on those uh until you complete dor course 101 so anything you need from the office is going to be available to you and we'll try to push you through as quick as possible okay clovis started either yeah okay may i contact you both tomorrow uh excuse me wednesday sure and uh make sure that we have a game plan or at least you know what you need to do and again we'll be happy to support you we'll let you know as soon as we can that's works yeah okay great any topics not reasonably considered prior to the posting of the agenda none to my knowledge generic uh generic members uh thoughts and concerns nope none no concerns our proposed meeting is october 29th uh poder we have called just three hours thisike October 5th, 6 p.m., open session, 6.30, executive session.
And, Stephen, we're ready to close this meeting, go into executive session. And would you kindly read why we're going into executive session? Right. I'll read it and then ask for a roll call vote afterwards. So, at 6.56 p.m., we'll be planning to adjourn to enter an executive session for persons who comply with GLC 59, Section 60, and GLC 214, Section 1B, as permitted, by Purpose 7 of GLC 30A, Section 21A, to review and discuss the following. Review the minutes from Monday, August 10th to 8 p.m. Accept and release. To discuss motor vehicle abatements for the month of August, vote to accept. And to review FY2026 appellate tax board cases to date. And there's a list of about 20 dockets that we will be reviewing. I don't see any reason to repeat the names of each one of those, as well as the 2027 appellate tax board cases to date. One. One docket for level three communications. And then the board will not return to open meeting afterwards. So, by roll call vote, at 6.57 p.m., Steve Clifford. Doug McNeely. E.G. Brennan. Zach Ventris. Zach Ventris. And by unanimous, the meeting is adjourned. We shall return to the other side for the executive session. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.