BERLIN — The city council was scheduled to meet Monday night to review and decide on 41 applications for property tax abatements. Without an acting board of assessors, the task of approving or denying abatements application falls upon the city council.
The city council last week heard from Monica Hurley of Corcoran Consulting Associates, the firm the city hired to do both the assessment and the abatement applications. Appearing via Zoom, Hurley explained the abatement process and how her firm has handled the applications for abatements. In their abatement applications, she said taxpayers must cite one of three criteria — data, comparable market sales and the level of assessment.
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