HomeMy WebLinkAbout1940-10-22-BASS-min.pdf Meeting, Oct. 22.., 1940
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Messrs.° Ste'eve's, 'Cann, Emery, Shanahan, 'Burnham, Spenice c.an
-Mies Re8.dy, were present.
'k%e Assessors `were` informe`cl t�iat 'the Appellate Tax Board.
;notified
this' office under date of Oct. 16th, 1940 that the case of SydneyH.
Palmer vs. LeXington Assessors had_been withdrawn.
" Mr. John Lyons, attorney for the Palmers, informed Mr. Spencer
some time ago that' the, compromise valuation reduction had,been accepted
and that he would notify the Appellate Tax` Board of -the withdrawal
of the case.
The 1940 Veterans 7 Exempt ion'Form 120 was signed by`,the Board and
put in the mail"for Commissioner Henry F. Long.
Three debarment bills were approved and signed by the Board for
payment.
Commitment of Water Liens amounting to $ 104.95was signed by the
` Board, r
The Board was informed that Mrs. Mary C. Kelley, widow, ' of #40
Woburn Street had paid all but $ 20.00 of her 1940 real estate tax. ,
The Board voted, to abate the balance of her 1940 tax under
Clause 18.
Letter received from Mr. George V. Morse, Agent, "Bureau of Old
Age Assistance, "in regard to the 1940 valuation on the real estate
owned by M . " James S. Robb and wife of 13 Bedford' Street, was read
and:the Board after considering the facts voted to reduce the 1940
assessment to 82990 so that Mr. Robb would be eligible for Old Age
Assistance.
Abatement of $7. 73 granted on James S. & Rose M. Robbts 1940 tax
bill:
Letter from Mr. George_.V.- More,' Agent, bureau of Old Age. Assis-
tance, in regard to the 1940" valuation on the real estate owned by
Mr. Richard J. Burke of '225 Marrett Road, was read and the Board
after, considering the facts voted to reduce the 1940 assessment to ,
$2990 so that Mr. Burke would be eligible for Old Age Assistance.
Abatement of X21.90 granted on Mr. Burke 's1940 tax bill.
"Mr. Spencer• informed the Board that Mrs. Rhoda Cushman of =
11 Chase Avenue had come to the officef.and spoken about her unpaid.
1939 real estate tax bill which she had just received a demand on
from the 'Tax Collector.
Mr. Spencer told the Board that the circumstances of her case
were `about the same as in past years. For the past several. ,years'
the Assessors have abated the '•total, of the tax under Clause 18.'
The' Assessors at this meeting "voted to abate the total of the
1939 real estate tax assessed to Elmer L & Rhoda C. Cushman, amount
being $125.67.
The' Board viewed Mrs." Elizabeth J. .Dunn t s property at #282 Mass.
Avenue and at this meeting voted that no valuation reduction be made
on the 1940 assessment because_ the Board did not feel that the pro-
perty was over assessed.
Form 135 Notice ofrefusal to abate property tax Was signed by
Frederick J. Spencer, Secretary of the Board, dated Oct. 22nd and
sent to Mrs. Dunn.
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Real estate abatement applications were filed on the following
parcels by the owners of record or persons interested in the 1940 taxes, .
and the Assessors having examined the applications and viewed the parcels y
voted°at this meeting to make the following 1940 valuation reductions : "{
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Edward Abrams & David Goldberg, 198 Mass. Avenue, 4645 reduction.
H:O.L. C. (Mrs. Jos. C. Anthony-applicant ) 142 Follen Rd. J500 off house.
Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank - 14 Westminster Ave. 0950 off land.
Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank - 4 Bowker Street, 4865 reduction. '`
Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank - 27 Slocum Road, 41500 house over asses1
Arlington Five Cents Savings Bank - 611 Mass.. Avenue, 41060 reduction.
Jeanette Lamken (Manuel J. A:ruda- applicant ) 329 Mass. Ave. 01000 reductio
Esther Herman, 16 Mass. Avenue, 41000 reduction.
Minola M. Black, 77 Bloomfield Street, 0900 reduction.
Joseph Breck & Sons, Corp'n, " rear of 1265 Mass. Avenue, 413,000 reduction.,
Samuel & Jennie Burgoyne, 40 Percy Road, 41180 reduction.
Samuel B. Chapman, 57 Maple Street, 41200 reductions '.
Henry P. & Eleanor W. Clark, vacant lot on Mass. Avenue, q200Rabatement .p
(no reduction on present assessment ) granted under Clause 18.
Farrar Cobb & G. Philip Wardner, Trs. 24 Rindge Avenue, 4250 off house.
The Co-operative Central Bank of Boston, '26 Robbins Rd. i500 off house. i?.
William T. Crowther, 41. Bloomfield Street, 42000 off land. r
Ernest & Virginia K. Cutter, 127 Follen Road, 0500 off house. i
Ernest Cutter, vacant lot of land, 4,550 off assessment.
. Annie L. Dane, 1 Bennington Road, 02000 off house; 42000 off land.
Mary F. & John F. Dowd, 14 Winthrop Road, $2000 off assessment., '
Ira F. & Verna R. Fuhrmann, 4 Eustis Street, 01490 off land. {,'
Edith D. Graves , 76 Bloomfield Street, 4400 reduction.
Annie E. Harrington, 11 Winthrop Road, 43700 off buildings.
Elmer E. Hinsman, 11 Leighton Avenue, 4270 off house.
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 60 Bloomfield Street, 4320 reduction.
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 7 Charles Street, 4500 reduction. 0
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 44 Bloomfield Street, 41060 r"eduction. >e
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 9 Highland Avenue, 41000 reduction. ; ''
Anstiss S. Hunt, et al, vacant land on Cottage Street, 4500 reduction. . '
Jane P. Knight, 1088 Mass. Avenue, 41615 reduction.
Lexington Savings Bank, (Harold H. Hookway-applicant ) 82500 reduction on ';
house. After house re-conditioning is finished the housezassessmen
will be raised as of Jan. let, 1941.
Edith R. Pierce, (Lexington Co-operative Bank-applicant) 1 Eustis Street, Y'
4760 reduction. PR
Lexington Trust, Company, 3 Plainfield. Street, 4430 reduction. ,
,Roger D. & Christine F. Long, 44 Percy Road, 42500 house reduction.
Joseph E. & Lewis W. MacDonald, 14 Banks Avenue, 4750 reduction. `y;
Ernest C. & Elizabeth W. Martin, 11 Eliot Road, 41460 reduction. ;'
The New England Trust Co. Trustee u/w/o William H. Wentworth, 10 Winthrop ,`.
Road, 41000 reduction. ?`
North Cambridge Co-operative Bank, 6 Ames Avenue, 4500 reduction.
Francis W. Dean, Old Colony Trust Company, Executor o/w/o Francis W. Dean,
4 Eliot Road, 49705 reduction. ";'
James A. & Barbara F. Peirce, 64 Marrett Road, 4940 reduction. ;rt
Noel C. & Margaret M. Phelps, 42 Percy Road, $600 reduction.
Annie E. & James Phillips, 10 Bloomfield street, 4500 reduction.
Minnie M. Ryder, 24 Maple Street, : 900 reduction on buildings.
Minnie M. Ryder, 44 Maple Street, 41200 reduction on buildings.
Oscar E. & Elizabeth Sotto, 18 Winthrop Road, 41800 reduction. 4
Christine M. Shilliday, 3 Baker Avenue, x.,500 house reduction. '
Peter VanGemert, 40 Brandon Street, 4500 reduction.
Volunteer Co-operative Bank, 7 Highland Avenue, 4500 reduction, `n
Donald Wilson" et • al, 33 Bloomfield Street, 4500 reduction on land. a: }t
George A. q-oods, 51 Bloomfield Street, 4810 reduction. ''3`
Anstiss S. & Mary D. Hunt, 22 Slocum Road, $2540 reduction. u°
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Workingmens Co-operative Bank, 6 Tower Road, 5500 off house assessment.
Mildred E. Wyman, 39 Locust Avenue, 82000 off assessment.
The following filed abatement applications on their 1940 real estate
and the Assessors examirxe-d :the applications and viewed, the parcels
and at this meeting they voted that no valuation reduction be made
on the 1940 assessments because the Board does not feel that the par-
cel's are over assessed.
(location of parcel)
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1116 Mass. Avenue,
Agnes M. Walton, 5 Spencer Street
Arlington Five Cents =Savings Bank, 910-912 Mass. Avenue,
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 15 Barnes Place.
Frank C. Friend, 517 Mass. Avenue
Frank C. Friend, 483-485 Mass.. Avenue
Boston Co-operative Bank (Boston Federal Savings & Loan Assn.-applicant)
337-339 Mass. Avenue.
Arlington Co-operative Bank (Albert E. Bertini-applicant) 30 Theresa Ave.
.Charles W. & Robert L. Ryder, Trs, Lexington Estates Trust, 53.41 acres
of land off Winthrop Road.
Annie. L. Dane, vacant land on Washington Street.
Annie Bornstein, 32 Massachusetts Avenue
Annie Bornstein, 5 Hibbert Street
Blackstone Savings Bank, 11 Lockwood Road
Minnie M. Ryder, 20-22 Maple Street
Generino H. & Florence T. Luongo, 214 Mass. Avenue
Pasquale Luongo, 8 Spencer Street °
The above were informed of the decision of the Board by being
sent the State approved Form #135, Notice of Refusal to abate pro-
perty
.tax . Notices dated Oct. 22, 1940.
A letter dated Oct. 5th, from Mr. J. Joseph Hurley of 9 Vine Brook
rRoad was read and the Board after discussing the matter and consider-
ing his request voted to abate the total of the 1939 real estate tax
of J. Joseph & Anne. T. Hurley amounting to 5219.75
Mr. Hurley is past 71 years of age and receives a very small salary
'' as a night watchman. He informed the Board that he has a for sale sign
ob his property.
This abatement was granted under Clause 18, Sec. 5. Chapter 59,
' General Laws.
The Board considered and talked over Mrs. Evelyn McVettyts request
made in her letter dated Sept. 27th, 1940, for further help on herun-
paid 1939 real estate tax and the Clerk was asked to write to Mrs.
and ask her if she meant that she could pay 0100.00 more towards the
balance of her tax and then see if the Assessors would abate the balance ,
namely:`439.60.
Besides the real estate tax Mrs. McVetty is assessed for three
betterment assessments and these apportionments and interest items
make her bill much larger.
The Board felt that they might be able to give her some additional
help under Clause 18, but they did not feel that they could grant her
ti as large an abatement as they did for her on her 1938 real estate tax
0, bill.
The Board was told that Mrs. Mellow, widow, of 7 Smith Avenue had
H` been in to see if the Board was going to abate the balance of her 1940
real estate tax.
Mrs. Mellow has been receiving the 42000 exemption under Clause 17
for the past couple of years.
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The mortgage on Mrs. Mellow's property was re-written and adjusted j
by the Home Owners Loan Corporation with the hope that Mrs. Mellow could
carry the property along with the help she was expecting to get from her 'i
son and daughter.
Mr. Wal]. ce, representative for the H.O.L. C. , spoke to Mr. Spencer
about her circumstances and Mr. Spencers aid. he would take the matter
up with the Assessors and see what else they would do for Mrs.Mellow. 1
At the meeting of the Assessors held Feb. 27th, 1940 the Board dis-
cussed the matter and they voted to abate the balance of Mrs. Mellow's 1
1939 real estate tax.
Mr. Wallace was informed of this vote of the Assessors .
Mr. Wallace informed Mr. Spencer that the H.O.L.C. was going to pay
up the balance due on Mrs. Mellow' s 1938 tax and along with the adda.tiona)
abatement voted on the 1939 tax the Tax Title would be released. 4
Before the abatement slips were made `'put and s-igned, the H. 0,.L. C. sent,
their check to the Town Treasurer and it included the balance due the tow ,
on Mrs. Mellow's 1938 and also the.. 1939 tax.
Then Mr. Wallace found out what the check covered he asked Mr. Spencert'
if he thought that the Board would vote to abate, the balance, due on
Mrs. Mellow's 1940 tax seeing the H.O.L. C. did pay the balance on her
1939 tax after the Board had agreed to abate it, and Mr. Spencer said he-
would take the matter up with the Board at one of their meetings.
The Assessors at this meeting said they would like _to know more about
the adjusted mortgage figures before they took any action on this requestj
and they suggested that Mr. Spencer get more data from Mr. Wallace.
Letter from A. H. Gren to Wm.A. Seaman was read to. the Board. As ther.',
was an abatement application on file from this party no action was taken
at this meeting.
The two letter from Attorney George S. Ryan of Arlington 'in regard to:.
a settlement of the unpaid taxes on Ethel F. Bean's property were read ' .Z1
and the Board agreed to accept: his offer of 02700 providing the Assessors;;
got. Commissioner Long!s. ;_authority on this matter.
The request from Katherine Jacobs of 582 Mass Avenue.: for help on her
unpaid 1939 real estate tax was considered and the Board. knowing this to r'`;
be a worthy case voted to abate her 1939 tax under- Sec. 5. Clause 18, '
General Laws.
The town would have to aid this woman by relief, so they felt it was
better to let her Live in the propertyand abate the tax under her exist
conditions. 4
Mr. Giroux, Chairman of the Selectmen, spoke to the Assessors about
this case before they took action on her- 1938 ;taxes. '
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