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Open Session Minutes
February 25, 2025
A meeting of the Lexington Board of Assessors was called to order at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 in
the Parker 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, Cheryl Draper, Administrative Assessor, Shawn Connolly, Residential
Inspector/Analyst and Barbara Sird, Residential Inspector/Analyst
Open Session
Public Comment Time: None present.
Vendor News & Views: None present
Director's Report: Mr. Lent notified the Board that Cheryl Draper has been promoted to the Administrative
Assessor position.
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 4:15 p.m. to enter into Executive Session under Purpose 7 in order to deliberate
Fiscal Year 2025 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.
6:20 p.m. Motion to adjourn Executive and reconvene into Open Session was seconded and approved
VOTE: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Assessors voted 3-0 by roll call to approve the
recommendations for the Fiscal Year 2025 Chapter 59, Section 5 Various Clauses of Statutory Exemption
Applications.
VOTE: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Assessors voted 3-0 by roll call to approve the
recommendations for the Fiscal Year 2025 Chapter 59 Section 59, Real Estate Abatement Applications.
VOTE: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Assessors voted 3-0 by roll call to approve the
recommendations for the Fiscal Year 2025 Chapter 59 Section 59, Personal Property Abatement Applications.
VOTE: Upon a motion duly made and seconded, the Board of Assessors voted 3-0 by roll call to approve the
following meeting minutes: January 14, 2025; May 16, 2023; September 19, 2023; October 16, 2023; and October
23, 2023.
The Board of Assessors next scheduled meeting will be held on March 25, 2025.
There being no other business a motion was duly made and seconded at 6:27 p.m. to adjourn the meeting.
A true record: Attest Cheryl Draper, Administrative Assessor, Meeting Secretary