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Open Session Minutes
November 8, 2022
A meeting of the Lexington Board of Assessors was called to order at 4 00 p m on Tuesday, November 8, 2022
in the Select Board Meeting Room, Town Office Building Gregory Johnson, Chairman, Edmund C Grant,
Member and Casimir Groblewski, Member were present as well as Robert F Lent, Director of Assessing, Michael
E Golden, Assistant Director of Assessing, Carolyn Kosnoff, Finance Director and Sandra Pentedemos,
Administrative Assessor
Open Session
Public Comment None Present
Mr Lent informed the Board of a budget request approval of$15,000 for the purchase of an electronic plan review
table, called the I-Plan Table The I-Plan table will allow staff to handle increasingly complex building permit
information requirements The I-Plan table is an effective way of communicating the reviewed and inspected
building permits The table will be networked to the Town's View Point Cloud (VPC) review of permits records
This review will result in increased staff productivity and minimize having to print out building permits
Mr Lent updated the Board on the status of the vacant Residential Field Inspector/Analyst position The Town will
post until the position is filled The position will appear in the Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers
(MAAO), and the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA)career opportunities.
Mr Lent distributed the preliminary Fiscal Year 2023 Informational Tax Classification packet including all Exhibits
to the Board Mr Lent presented the Fiscal Year 2023 New Levy Growth. Takeda has reported $1 million dollars
of Personal Property Mr Lent explained the list of targeted projects and the properties estimated revenue for the
Capital Stabilization Fund Ms Carolyn Kosnoff, Director of Finance arrived at 5 00 p.m. to review and discuss the
Fiscal Year 2023 recommendations to the Select Board The Board discussed the minimum residential factor
options to present at the Select Board Public Tax Classification Hearing, scheduled to be held on November 14,
2022 Ms Kosnoff informed the Board that she will prepare the Select Board Memo with the four options (tax shift
factor, open space discount, residential exemption and small commercial exemption)the Select Board will vote
on Mr Lent stated he'll finalize the classification exhibits of the packet. Ms. Kosnoff plans to publicly release the
Fiscal Year 2023 informational Tax Classification packet on November 11th 2022
Mr Lent informed the Board of a discussion held with Becky Boucher DOR Representative, that the DOR/DLS is
allowing for Boards of Assessors, to consider the option to authorize the Director of Assessing or the Director of
Finance to pre-sign the LA-4 Certification Tax Rate Form on behalf of the Board of Assessors prior to annual
submission deadline of a fiscal years' tax levy in the DLS Gateway. The Board will consider a discussion to be
held at a later meeting No decision was made at this time
VOTE Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Assessors voted 3-0 by roll call to adjourn the
Open Session of the meeting at 5.30 p m to enter into Executive Session under Purpose 7 in order to deliberate
Fiscal Year 2023 Statutory Exemptions, Real Estate Abatement Applications and Personal Property Abatements
Further it was declared that an open meeting discussion may have a detrimental effect on the litigation position of
the town
The Board reconvened Open Session at 6 00 p.m.
Executive Session occurred here: details may be viewed in separate Executive Session folder.
VOTE Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Assessors voted 3-0 by roll call to approve of the
recommendations for the Fiscal Year 2024 Chapter 61 B, Recreational Land Applications Notice of Actions(CL-
will be mailed to the applicants (See Executive folder)
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Meeting Minutes, November 8, 2022
Board of Assessors Meeting
Open Session Minutes
November 8, 2022
There were no Fiscal Year 2023 Chapter 59, Section 5,Various Clauses of Statutory Exemption Applications
There were no Fiscal Year 2023 Chapter 59 Section 59, Real Estate Abatement Applications
There were no Fiscal Year 2023 Chapter 59 Section 59, Personal Property Abatement Applications
There were no pending Appellate Tax Board actions to discuss No decisions had to be made by the Board
The Board postponed discussion of February 8, 2022, March 8, 2022 and the March 22, 2022 Meeting Minutes
The Board of Assessor's next Meeting will be held on November 14, 2022
There being no other business a motion was duly made and seconded at 6 15 p m to adjourn the Meeting
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A true record Attest Sandra Pentedemos, Administrative Assessor
Meeting Secretary