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GRIEVANCE DAY
TOWN OF SOUTH ZD
-July 16, 1974
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t; PRESENT
MRS. HENRY B LYTLE
Peconic, New York
., THEODORE J'. HEUSER
' Mattituck, ,New York
ALEXANDER BOGAN
,.. Cutchogue, New York
ONY DE 'MAULA
* p ;'zstitack, .New York
:r ASSESSORS PRESENT:
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WARD.,W• .FOX
EDWIN P. PICKEISSEN
MELVILLE As KELSEY, JR.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -2- July 16, 1974
I N D E X
# 1. Charles Witherspoon page 3
# 2. Carl E. Stelzer (Frances Stelzer) page 3
3. Floyd Vail page . 5
# 4. Harvey Bagshaw page 8
# 5. Eugene Arnone (mail) page 13
# 6. Simone W. Swan (Gary Olsen, Esq. ) page 13
# 7. Simone W. Swan (Gary Olsen, Esq. ) page 13
# 8. Catherine Woodhull page 13
# 9. Tartan Oil Corp. (mail) page 17
#10. James Gallagher Estate (Martha Drumm) page 17
#11. Westbury Equipment (mail) page 19
#12. Westbury Equipment (mail) page 20
#13. Mattituck Associates (mail) page 20
#14. Isabel Sarkisian (mail) page 20
#15. Isabel Sarkisian (mail`) page 20
#16. Alfred J. Terp page 20
#17. Mrs. Reiter page 22
#18. Alfred J. Terp page 23
#190 Isabel Sarkisian (mail) page 34
#20. Isabel Sarkisian (mail) page 30`
#21. Sark 'Equities, Inc. (mail) page 30
#22. John Pedersen page 30
#23. United Artists Eastern Theatres (mail) page 31
#24. United Artists Eastern Theatres (mail) page 31
#25. 235 Mill Street Limited (mail) page 31
#26. John Tsoumpas (mail.) page 32
#27. Gulf Oil Corp. lessee (mail) page 32
#28. Ross Wick (mail) Page .32
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -3- July 16, 1974
Mrs. Lytle was Chairman and opened at 9:00 a.m.
#1. Charles Witherspoon, Horton Point, Southold.
Mrs. Lytle attempted to explain to Mr. Witherspoon that
his forms were not complete, that he had to complete them
first and then take the oath. Mr. Witherspoon -wanted to
explain what his problem was first. Mrs. Lytle asked him
to come back with a form *for each piece of proparty he
felt was overassessed and the Board would be ab Le to
listen to him officially. He •left saying he woild be
back but he did not reappear at any time the Bo. rd was
hearing.
#2. Carl E. Stelzer, Mary' s Road, Box 111G, RFD #1, Mattituck.
Property located in Mattituck.
N - John Wilcenski
S - Harlan Phillips
E - Mary' s . Road
W - John Wilcenski
100' x 174' $700 land $6300 land and house
Mr. DeMaula administered the oath as follows:
"Do you, Frances Stelzer, solemnly swear that the. informa-
tion you give herein will be given accurately and truth-
fully to the best of your ability?"
Mrs. Stelzer: I do.
Mr. Heuser: Your point is not so much the valuation but
the mobile trailers in the backyard.
Mrs. Stelzer: I feel what has been done in my backyard
has decreased my valuation.
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Mr. DeMaula: Do you live on Mary' s Road?
Mrs. Stelzer: Yes. I am on Mary' s Road behind the school
property. It is down behind the American Legion. The
trailers are behind our house between the AmericanLegion
and our house. There are two trailers, really three, one
cut in half, half laying in each piece. There are two
lots in there.
Mr. DeMaula: Lots 37 and 38. Does McKenna live next
door?
Mrs. Stelzer: Yes, but it is listed McBride. .
Mrs. Lytle: Do you know.how it is zoned in general?
Mrs. Stelzer: it is business - Steele 4pd Devello but
that is where Henry Jacob's potato building used to be.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -4- July 16,..1974
Mrs. Stelzer: There are two lots behind me and two mobile
homes on the property.
Mr. Heuser: Are they occupied?
-Mrs. Stelzer: Yes, for almost a year.
Mrs. Lytle: Mr. Fox, am' I wrong in my understanding that
if it is, on some sort of kundations and blocks and it
meets the requirements in size, it is considered a home?
Mr. Fox: They got a certificate of occupancy.
Mrs. Lytle: They have no distinction if it is home or
trailer.
Mr. Fox: A trailer that is parked gets permission to
park. With a mobile home they have to have 85C square
feet and most need an addition.
Mrs. Lytle: There is no zoning change at the moment?
Mr. Fox: It is legally considered a residence and they
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give a Certificate of Occupancy.
Mr. ` Heuser: I thought there were restrictions.
Mr. Fox: They have to have a minimum of floor space
and you would have to have a variance to put one in there.
Mr. DeMaula: There are three trailers?
Mrs. Stelzer: Two sitting and one cut in half to be
attached to each trailer. They have a year, I understand,
to get this footage of living space so they brought in
another trailer and. cut it in half. It is not attached
at this time.
Mr. Fox: That is controlled by the Building 'Department.
Mrs. Stelzer: I know we can't get the trailers out and
I am not trying to do that. I understand they,have
gotten approval to do this.
Mrs. Lytle: You feel it has decreased the value of your
property?
Mrs. Stelzer: Definitely. We live on a hill that looks
down. My backyard goes down and_there is no way I could
put a fence in not to see this.
' Mrs. Lytle: That would happen no matter what was down
there.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -5- July 16, 1974
Mr. DeMaula: She is in the center of that piece of
property. Her whole backyard is right in the center
of the piece of property on Hill Street.
Mrrs.Stelzer: These are pictures taken from my backyard.
The trees have filled. in now and it is not so bad.
(Mrs: Stelzer presented five pictures to the Board which
were markdd. )
Mrs. Lytle: May we have these and return them to you?
Mrs. Stelzer: Yes. The middle one that they brought in
is burnt out. The two arrived and a couple of months
ago the other one arrived. I spoke to Marty Suter and
' he said they have a year to get this done.
Mr. DeMaula: What is she asking for a reduction of?
Mrs. Lytle: $2,000 on the whole business, land and house.
#3. Floyd Vail, Bungalow Lane, Mattituck.
Property located in Mattituck.
N - Deep Hole Creek
S - Bungalow Lane
E - J. W. Kastner
W - W. Eberhard
1 acre $2400 land, $8600 land and building
Mr. DeMaula administered the oath as follows:
"Do you, Floyd Vail, solemnly swear that the information
you give herein will, be given accurately and truthfully
to the best of your ability?"
Mr. Vail: I do.
Mrs. Lytle: Mr. Vail, I have looked that over and I
understand you were assessed in 1962 the last time and
this is your new reassessment and you also show. the rate
as 17%.
Mr. Vail: I filled in what I guessed.
Mrs. Lytle; That is the figure given out by the State.
It is the ,right of Boards- of Assessors to set a figure
that they use based on the '1965 value of the property.
Our Board of 'Assessors goes on 25% of the market value.
You have not''been reassessed since -1962 so they are
' bringing you up" to the 1965 market value. That would be
a four 'times. your l which is $7,700. Is that correct?
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -6- July 16,, 1974
Mr. Vail: $7,750 is the new assessment. There is some
veteran' s exemption which makes it a little higher,
probably $8,250.
Mrs. Lytle: If you figure four times, it brings it up
for the 1965 valuation to $30,000.` Would you, accept
$30,000 for that property or would you want more or less?
Vail: Somewhere between $35,000 and $40,000.
Mrs. Lytle: It has not been overassessed on the market
value. You have the property insured for $30,000 and
that is all it is actually assessed for so you have it
insured for the full value so it would seem that this was
at ,least the actual value of the property.
Mr. Vail: There was my veterans' exemption.
Mrs. Lytle: $900 veteran' s exemption. Mr. Fox, does this
show a total tax or is that less the veteran's?
Mr. Fox: $7,750 is his 'net tax after deduction.
Mr. DeMaula: On the card it says $8,650 os he must have
_ had a $900 reduction.
Mr. Bogan: How. much property is there?
Mr. DeMaula: Less than an acre.
Mrs. Lytle: You have it assessed at $34,400 and you have
it insured for $30,000.
Mr. Heuser: The insurance is only the house.
Mrs. Lytle: The whole business is valued ,at far more
than that.
Mr. Heuser: The land is about $9,000. It is about an
acre.
Mrs. Lytle: It is one acre with alone-story frame house
on it.
Mr. Heuser: Do you believe in your report that the 17%
that was erroneously given you has influenced your thinking
about being 'overassessed?
Mr. Vail: I got a 50% jump in taxes which is pretty
heavy.
Mrs. Lytle: From $5100' to $8600.,
Grievance 'Day
Town of Southold -7- July 16, 1974
Mr.. Vail: I went up $2500.
Mrs.. Lytle: You are taking the net figure - $5200 to
$7700.
Mr. Vail: That is $2500 increase and 50% jump in taxes.
The tax rate goes up every year.
Mrs. Lytle: It is eleven years since it was reassessed
and the values have really gone up.
Mr. Vail: I don't think the cost of living has gone up
50%.
Mrs. Lytle: It is not based on the cost of living but
the value of the property. Is there a question of being
aware of. any neighbor' s homes?
Mr. Vail: I put down two on the sheet which I feel are
comparative property and house and are not taxed on the
same basis.
:r Mrs. Lytle: We will pull the cards and check for you.
Mr. Vail: It was a prefab house built in Greenport Ship-
yard. It wasn't a standard built house
Mrs. Lytle: You have a part basement, a fireplace and
asphalt shingles and you had a cement patio added.
Mr. DeMaula: Saunders is ten parcels up. It is a curved
portion on the creek with 125 feet in the road. It is
315 feet with 100 feet on the creek. Number 9 is his
property.
Mr. Heuser: He has more frontage, more depth and more
on the road.
Mr. Bogan: They are only chargin for 125 feet which
is straight across.
Mrs. ,Lytle:. . He is getting a 'break there.
Mr. Heuser: It would bring the land down, too. `
Mr. Vail: It is all marshland. I can't do anything but
look at it.
DeMaula: What was the other name. '
Mr. Heuser: William Kastner.
Mr. Vail: I think the property assessment is fair enough
but I' think the house is too -high. ' They raised the ;property
$700.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -8- July 16 1974
Mr. Heuser: $700 on the land.
Mr. Vail: The house was raised $1800.
Mr. Heuser: Correct.
Mr. DeMaula: Kastner has the adjoining property from
Mr. Vail. Mrs. Saunders ' is about eight or ten lots
away.
Mr. Heuser: You could not compare the Saunders' property
with your house at all. It is a summer home almost, is it
not?
Mr. Fox: Whatever the card says.
Mr. Heuser: You have over 50% more floor area than. the
house you are comparing, Kastner' s.
Mr. Bogan: There is a two car garage that is not in the
picture.
Mrs. Lytle: Did you add your garage at a later date?
Mr. Vail: It was there before
Mr. Heuser Kastner is charged full and Vail has 190
feet and is being charged for 125 feet. I would like to
suggest to Mr. Vail that as far as the land is concerned
your land assessment .is even more favorable than Kastner.
As far as the house there is no comparison in the houses.
You can visualize it yourself. ' You wouldn't .swap either
house for. yours.
Mr. Vail: I didn't say swap, but they are assessed alot
less taking into consideration the veteran' s exemption.
Mrs. Lytle: We will be sitting next week to make our
decision and ,you will be notified,
#4. Harvey Bagshaw, Deep Hole Drive, Mattituck.
Property located in Mattituck.
Lot #49, Deep Hole Creek Estates
.51 acre 1i and 1 story wood frame
$800 land $7600 land and building
Mr. DeMaula administered the oath as follows
"Do you, Harvey:Bagshaw, Jr. , solemnly swear, that the
information you give herein will .be given accurately and
truthfully to the best of your ability?"
Mr. Bagshaw, Jr. : I do.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -9- July 16, 1974
Mrs. Lytle: Did you start the house in 1972? You did
more work in 73?
Mr. Bagshaw: No, nothing has been done. Once it was
completed and I got the Certificate of Occupancy, there
. has not been a thing done.
Mr. Bogan: What year was it finished?
Mr. Bagshaw: I moved in in December of 1972. I changed
some bushes. I called up to find out why it went from
$6600 to $7600.
Mr. Bogan: (looked at letter from assessors)
Mrs. Lytle: Is your garage attached?
Mr. Bagshaw: No, it is detached.
Mr. Fox: May I address the Board? There has been a
bit of a change of policy. We did in the past. continue
a new house partial for years. A partial assessment is
always lower than the actual value. We now bring it up
to a proper value and call it finished and the unfinished
part will be caught in review.
Mr. Bagshaw: The upstairs is unfinished. I put windows
in the garage. The end room is unfinished and the dormer.
This is a house plus garage and this is a complete house.
Eventually, it will be another living room but right now
it is. this way. It is insured in the neighborhood of
$40,000. We have a mortgage of $28,000.
Mrs. Lytle: Your total assessment is $7600. ; The assessors
base the assessment. on 25% of the total value of the
house which would be four times the assessed valuation.
Four times $7600 comes to $30,400. Your mortgage is
$28,000. The bank must figure it is worth more: ,. You
have insurange of $40,000.
Mr. Bagshaw: Every year they have been down to reassess
it.
Mrs. Lytle: This is the change in policy. They have
brought it up to its full assessment now.
Mr. Bagshaw: No one has gone back since 1969 to that
other house.
Mr. Fox: They were there every year there was partial.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -10- July- 16, 1974
Mr. Bagshaw: Wouldn't it be marked on the sheet, on the
back it has the dates they were there.
Mr. Fox: Only if there is a change in the assessment is
the date put down.
Mr. Bogan:;` 1972, 73, 74.
Mr. Bagshaw: That is when they were down to see me.
They didn't change this guy since 1969.
Mrs. Lytle looked at the cards to compare it to John
Zaluski.
Mr. Bagshaw: My living area is 1180 square feet.
Mr. Bogan: They have taken occupied and unoccupied,
1654 plus 780 for the garage. Do you have a garage built
other than these buildings?
Mr. Bagshaw: You can't see it by -this picture. The
garage is separate.
Mrs. Lytle This is the house and garage and the garage
is separate and doesn't show. He still has a garage.
Mr. DeMaula: The other house has 1157.
Mr. Bagshaw: When he asked me the value of the house, he
told me to put today' s market value.
Mrs. Lytle: Who told you?
• Mr. Bagshaw: Mr. Fox. He told me it is what it was in
1965.
Mrs. Lytle: It is based on 25% of the market value.
Mr. Heuser: The bank valued your property at least
$35,000 when they gave you the mortgage which is 80% of
the sale value of the house.
Mr. Bagshaw: That $28,000 is what 'I built the house for,
the ,whole thing. I did the wiring, the heating and the
painting myself.
Mrs. Lytle: The rest cost $28,000 to build.
Mr. DeMaula: The 1965 rate of building cost was $17 a
foot, it comes to about $7,000 on the house. That is
about what it should be taxed on, you are only being taxed
$6800 so you are $200 underneath. '
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -11- July 16, 1974
Mr. Bagshaw: What would the cost of building it be in
1965?
Mr. DeMaula: $17 a square foot complete. He' s got
1654 ,square_ feet, it comes to $28,118 not including the
garage. If you 'take 1/4 of that it is roughly $7,000.
Mr. Bagshaw: Some of itis unfinished. $17 times 1180
square feet that is finished. The rest is a cement slab
with the two by four plywood on the outside and .the
shingles.
Mrs. Lytle: It is finished on the outside like the rest
of the house
Mr. Heuser: Mr. Fox explained how they had started a
reassessment valuation 'of incompleted houses.
Mr. Bagshaw: You can see on the other fellow's house
where there was a partial assessment. For five years he
coasted along with no problem whatsoever. They were back
to my house every year.
Mr. DeMaula: It was raised in- 1974. It was assessed at
$5900 and this year :they caught up with it and assessed
it at what they 'thought was the full value. I under-
stand your point.
Mrs Lytle The point is that even if you took it on
the value or the assessed value of $7600, at the moment
it would bring it up to $30,400 as your market value and
- he holds a mortgage of .$28,000 andbeing close,:'the bank
values it at $35,000.
Mr. Bogan: ' One factor ,is the bank examined, the property
and knew it was only partically completed.
Mr. Bagshaw: What I' got a mortgage for and what the bank
assesses it for. Gene Horton would charge $40,000 and
Inland Homes would charge $28,000.
Mrs. Lytle: The banks are very careful in theirvaluation.
You got your mortgage in 1972?
Mr. Bagshaw: Yes, Southold Savings Bank.
Mrs. Lytles They go inside and outside. ` I think we could
figure _$35,000 is -the value the bank has put on it. It
is, insured with the value being $40,000.
Mr-. Bashaw: It is worth $40,000 andI hope next year
it is 145,000:
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -12- July 16, 1974
Mrs. Lytle: You are not assessed for the full market
value but for it being worth $30,400 which is only about
$2,000 more than your mortgage even.
Mr. Bagshaw: I am assessed at $7600 a.-id this other
fellow is assessed at $6300. ' It is th3 same house only
with a detached garage.
Mrs. Lytle: When you add everything it is a much larger
house.
Mr. DeMaula: You take that off and the houses are the
same.
Mr. Bagshaw: They are right from the same set of plans.
He has garage doors and all I" have is windows.
Mrs. Lytle: You have this plus a separate garage.
Mr. Bagshaw:. He is still assessed less than me .and his
land is $1400. He is $1300 less than I am. . His house is
finished, at least he has decorations on the walls.
Mr. DeMaula: What is the other name?
Mr. Bogan Zalucki.
Mrs. Lytle: What' s the difference in the land?,
Mr. Bagshaw: It looks the same as mine, the other fellow
has a partial assessment and all they did was cross the
word off and it was fine. , They crossed mine off and
raised it $1,000.
Mrs. Lytle: Mr. Fox, can you explain that to us?
Mr. Fox: When we take it off partial, we strike. it off
and it is no longer partial.
Mr. Bagshaw: Gene Horton built the same house for
$50,000. You go to the bank and tell what it is worth.
You appraise the house at $50,000 or $28,000 depending
on who built it.
Mr. DeMaula: One is on Duck Pond and one is on Deep Hole
Lane. The property size is relatively the same.
Mr. Bogan: His land is more valuable.
Mr.. Bagshaw: His whole land and everything is $1300
lower than mine.
Mrs Lytle: His land is more and the house is 'less.
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -13- July 16, 1974
Mr. Bagshaw: He has more living area than I do. He has
about 700 feet upstairs and 1180 downstairs.
Mr. Bogan: He has a one-story extension.
Mr. DeMaula: The main building is a story and a half.
Mr. Bagshaw: The complaint is he has more living space
and his assessment is $1300 lower.
Mrs. Lytle: We will sit next week and make our decision
and notify you.
#5. (Mail)
Eugene Arnone, Park Avenue, Mattituck.
Property located in Mattituck.
N - H. Whelan
S - Park Avenue, Kopf
E - Deep Hole Creek
W - Bungalow Lane
_ 1 story frame 115' on creek 1 acre
$2300 land $5800 land and buildings
Mrs. Lytle: The house is insured for $25,000. He bought
it in 1961.
Mr. DeMaula: He lives on the same road as Saunders and
Vail.
' Mrs. Lytle: This house is valued at $14,000 and he has
it insured at $25,000. The land is a whole acre valued
at $9,200. You have it valued at $23CO.
Mr. Fox: The 192' cement deck is a raised deck.
Mr. DeMaula: , It is a .corner lot.
#6.
V. Gary Flanner Olsen, Esq. appeared on two pieces of property
owned by Simone W. .Swan. His forms were not completed and
he said he would return in the .evening. He did not return.
#8. CatherineWoodhull, Box 1237, Mattituck.
Property located in Mattituck.
N - McCollom
E - Marratooka Lake
S - Helen Goldsmith
W - Marratooka Park
$1600 land ; $6500 land and buildings
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -14- July 16, 1974
Mr. DeMaula administered the oath as follows
"Do you, Catherine Woodhull, solemnly swear that the
information you give herein will be given accurately
and truthfully to the best of your ability?"
Mrs. Woodhull: I do.
Mrs. Lytle:, When did you acquire this property?
Mrs. Woodhull: In 1936.
Mrs. Lytle: Do you have a garage not attached?
Mrs. :Woodhull: Yes.
Mrs. Lytle: Your property is insured for $25,000 at the
moment?
Mrs. Woodhull: Yes.
Mrs. Lytle: You say here 'too numerous to mention,
comparisons can be supplied on demand' . Are there any
particular places you want to compare it with? We can
pull the cards.
Mrs. Woodhull: Not at the moment.
Mr. Heuser: You would have to prove there is -a variance.
Mrs. Woodhull: The other people around the lake in that
area, their assessment went up some but not as much as
mine. : There is Catherine McCollom He?en Goldsmith,.
Charles Cuddy.
Mrs.- Lytle: Are these all around you?
Mrs. Woodhull.: The same area.
Mr. DeMaula: Do , you wish reduction on the `land or both?
Which, do you feel is overassessed? ,
Mrs. Woodhull: The house,
Mr. Heuser: Is this an error or do you think you are
overassessed $20,000?
' Mrs. Woodhull: The value of the -house. I don't know in
dollars and cents what you mean.
Mrs. Eytle: You mean your property is only worth $10,000.
Would you care to look at it and change it then?
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -15 July 16, 1974
Mrs. Woodhull: $6500 is what it is as.3essed at?
Mr. DeMaula: That is your base, but h: showed here the
breakdown for the land and the house. Your house is
$4900 and your land $1600, the total i3 $6500.
Mrs. Woodhull: I figured I could get 3ossibly $38,000
for it.
Mr. DeMaula: You are only assessed on $26,000.
Mr. Heuser: This is the market value $26,000 is what it
is assessed at.
Mrs. Lytle: It is 25% of the 1965 mar.,cet value.
Mrs. Woodhull: As far as I could figure out I might be
able to get $38,000 for it all told.
Mr. Heuser: The assessed valuation is only four time,
$6500 or $26,000 which is $12,000 less than you could get
for your property.
Mrs. Woodhull: I didn' t know you assessed it at what you
could get for it.
Mr. Heuser: If you had a piece of property worth $40,000
and insured for $40,000, the $26,000 assessed valuation
is very fair.
Mrs. Lytle: . She has it insured for $25,000.
Mr. Heuser: That is just the house.
Mrs. Woodhull: What would the taxes ba now?
Mrs. Lytle: It would be the rate times $6500. These
are not dated as to the last assessment.
Mr. Fox: We don't know the last time it was ever assessed.
We started the card system in 1962.
Mrs, Lytle: This is prior to 1962, at least eleven or
twelve years minimum since it was reassessed.
Mrs. Woodhull: The houses on the side of me were really
built.
Mr. Bogan: Did you think they were assessed lower .than
yours? They are higher.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -16- July 16, 1974
Mrs. Woodhull: They are higher than me but their houses
cost much more because the rooms are much larger, etc.
Mrs. Lytle: They all go up considerably. They are assessed
much more so it doesn't look like you were not fairly
assessed. Your figure is nowhere near theirs.
Mrs. Woodhull: All of a sudden I was ,jumped. '
Mrs. Lytle: It is a minimum of twelve years and you know
yourself the values and you have not been brought up to
the correct value. You are brought up to the market
value. of 1965.
Mr. Fox: It is a minimum of twelve but; could have been
longer.
Mrs. Lytle: , From the time of the cards, about. 1961. It
had not been reassessed from 1961 at least, so that is
twelve years.
Mr. Heuser: There is one factor worthy of notice. Many
people who have not been reassessed over ten or twelve
years have really had the benefit of a lower tax bill than
other people who have been reassessed. When you get hit
it looks tremendous. Do you realize what I mean?
Mrs. Woodhull: Yes.
Mr. DeMaula: Alot of people were broug-at up in steps.
Mrs. Woodhull: I would rather have that.
-Mr. DeMaula: They are now getting you 'or twelve years.
They have caught up with you. We saw this last -year
where there was a massive reassessment where people ,hadn't
been touched in twelve or fourteen years where other people
were paying small amounts more over a period of ten years.
It is basically a case of manpower.
Mrs. Woodhull: Why did Southold with an equalization
rate of $17?
Mr. DeMaula: That ,is a number put out by the state. That'
is the guideline put out by the state. It is at the
discretion of the assessors to use any rate as long as
it is, done equally.
Mrs... Woodhull It is just one of those things that has
hit me and I am the only breadwinner for; the family.
I do. remember 'the assessors being' around but I have worked
for .the last nine years.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -17- July 16, 1974
Mr. Heuser: What kind of heating do you have?
Mrs. Woodhull: Hot water.
Mr. DeMaula: The basis for all assessments in all of
Southold is the 25% Everyone in the town is assessed
at that rate.
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Mr. Fox: Baseboard or radiators?
Mrs. Woodhull: Radiators.
Mr. Heuser: What do you want it reduced to?
Mrs. Woodhull: I was thinking $22,000.
Mrs. Lytle: We will l6t you know by mail in a week or so.
#9. Tartan Oil Corp. , 150 Broad Hollow Road, Melville (Mail)
Property located in Mattituck.
N - Main Road
E - Marratooka Road
S - Wickham
W Sunset Avenue
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$4,000 land $8700 land and buildings
Mrs. Lytle: He has an acre with it. The full market
value is $30,000. It is assessed for $8700.• It is insured
for $25,000. '
Mr. Heuser: He was assessed in 1970 and he wants a
reduction because the property is idle.
Mrs. Lytle: He wants it reduced to $5100.
Mr. Heuser: The claim- is based on unoccupied- business.
Mrs. Lytle: The law doesn't provide for hardship cases.
#10. James Gallagher Estate, Bowery Lane, Southold
Property located in Southold.
N Town property
S - J. Diller Estate
E - Bowery Lane
W 0. S. Case
1 acre with 200' frontage
$1,000 land $2300 land and buildings
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -18- July 16, 1974
Mr. DeMaula administered the oath as follows:
"Do you, Martha Drumm, solemnly swear that the information
you give herein will be given accurately and truthfully
to the best of your ability?"
Mrs. Drumq: I do
Mrs. Lytle: Your tax is $2300 and you want it reduced to
$800?
Mrs. Drumm: My taxes were up to $344.50 this year and; my
valuation went way up this year to $2600. L got notifica-
tion of a decrease but I think it should be more because
there were no improvements on the property.
Mrs. Lytle: Do you realize in 1972 it was ten years
since the property was reassessed?
Mrs. Drumm: It is one acre? The town did own the sand
bank in the back.
y Mrs'. Lytle: The 17% does not apply. The property is
appraised on the basis of 25% of the 1965 value of the
land and the house. In other words, your land, one acre,
_ was assessed at $1,000. They feel that is worth $4,000
today on the market. Your house is assessed at $1300.
They figure $5,200. What would you sell it for today?
What do you think it is worth?
Mrs.. Drumm: I don't know. My mother and father owned
it. There are only two left.
Mr. Heuser: To have this estate settled, the property
has to have a value. Somewhere you must have it.
Mrs. Drumm: My brother will not sign over his share to
me so it leaves me holding the bag.
Mr. Heuser: Do you have the estate papers?
Mrs. Drumm: They have been dead twenty-one or `twenty-two
years. There was no will or anything. It just came down
from one to another.
Mrs. Lytle: The land value was reduced $300.
Mrs.Drumm: I wanted to know if it could be reduced a
little bit more.
Mrs. Lytle: Do you know anything about the value of any
of the pieces of ,land. There has been nothing sold that
I know of recently.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -19- July 16, 1974
Mr. Bogan: Do you live in this house now?
Mrs. Drumm: Yes, all my life.
Mrs. Lytle: You have a space heater?
Mrs. Drumm: It is an oil burner on top of the floor.
Mr. Heuser: Your total assessment is $2300 and you
inserted in here overvaluation of $1500 which would reduce
your valuation to $800.
Mrs. Drumm: Mr. Fickeissen said to put this in.
Mr. Heuser: I would like to see it changed to something
more realistic.
Mrs. Lytle: It is based on a total of $2300. What would
you value it at today? Your reduction is way out of line.
You would never get that. We suggest that you change
that figure to a more reasonable amount.
r Mrs. Drumm: What would you call reasonable?
Mrs. Lytle: We can' t tell you. You can't tell us about
any property around. Who are your neighbors?
Mrs. Drumm: The Town of Southold, nobody except Dillers
across the street.
Mr. DeMaula: Who is next to you?
Mrs. Drumm: Dillers, it is all farmland. Across the
street is Florian. They have a nice home. Everything is
electric and everything else and I don' t have anything.
Mrs. Lytle: Who owns the little green house?
Mrs. Drumm: Pauline McGunnigle.
Mrs. Lytle: Is there any similarity?
Mrs. Drumm: No.
Mr. Heuser: We will review it and in a week or so make
a decision and notify you.
#11. Westbury Equipment, 615 Old Country Road, Westbury (mail)
N - Long Island Railroad
S - Creek
E - Pipes Neck Road
W - Gutter
10.8 acres $3900 land
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Grievance Day
Town of ,Southold -20- July 16, 1974
Mr. Fox said the matter is still in the courts.
#12. Westbury Equipment, 615 Old Country Road,` Westbury (mail)
N - Long Island Railroad
S Creek
E - Sill
W - Reiter and Homan
13.2 acres $6200 land
Mr. Fox said the matter is still in the courtsA
#13. Mattituck Associates (mail)
There were two claims on one form. The Board"cannot act.
#14. Isabel Sarkisian, 35 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. (mail)
Lot 9 - Marratooka Park - lj story frame .965 acres
$4900 land $13,800 land and buildings
Mrs. Lytle: It was done in 1963 and was reassessed in
1973.
Mr. DeMaula: It is all lots on Peconic Bay. It is 173
feet on the water.
Mrs. Lytle: It is a two-story house with coal heat. They
got a,20% depreciation.
#15. Isabel Sarkisian, 35 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. (mail)
Lot 8 - Marratooka Park $3800 land
Mrs. Lytle They claim overvaluation of the land. There
is no building on this 1.58 acres. '
The bulkheading was discussed on which the standard price
is $38 a foot for waterfront bulkheaded and the footage
shows 101 feet bulkheaded.
#16. Alfred J. Terp, Southold, New York
Property located in Cutchogue.
N- Schneiders Equities, Inca
S - Main Road
E Terp and Terp
W - Griffing Street
$3600 land $9200 land and buildings .44 acres
Mr. DeMaula administered the oath`as follows:
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -21- July 161 1974
"Do you, Alfred Terp, solemnly swear that the information
you give herein will be given accurately and truthfully
to the best of your ability?"
Mr. Terp: I do.
Mr. Heuser: Have you your notice, yot. had no increase.
Mr. Terp: Last year I was here. I dcn't have any
increase. It is the same as last year. You said if I
disagreed, to pay the tax under protest.
Mrs. Lytle: The overvaluation you figure is $1100, cost
of construction $720?
Mr. Terp: Yes.
Mrs. Lytle: You have in that building the barber shop
on which you collect $50 a month? '
Mr. Terp: Yes. I was here last year and they have it
listed as the tax raised in 1972 and I think it is 1973.
The first' time I was here was last year and that was
when I received the up to $11,100.
Mr. Bogan: That would be reduced.
Mr. Terp: When I received the original notice I went to
the Board. They came up and reduced it before I saw you
people. It was from $11,100 down' to . It went
from $6800 up to $11,100. r���X
Mrs. Lytle: You feel it is still up too high? That
would be $8100. You feel it should be reduced on the
building?
Mr. Bogan: You feel the land at $3600 is correct?
Mr. Terp: Yes, that is fair enough. - The building is my
main complaint.
'Mrs. Lytle: Have you any valuation idea on' the building
yourself?
Mr.- Terp: I can equate it to Mr. Tyler's garage that is
right behind and it is a much newer buildin and. the same
.square footage and Mr. Tyler is listed for 6500 and I am
listed at $7500: on the building.
Mr. Bogan: Tyler' s is on the back road.
Mr. Terp: We are talking about the building, not the land.
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -22- July 16, 1974
Mrs -Lytle In other words, they have the building
valued at $22,400. We figure four times the assessment
amount. What do you think the building is worth?
Mr. Terp: You couldn't get a dime for the building itself.
Mrs.` Lytlq: Have you had it appraised independently?
Mr. Terp: I brought some pictures along to _show you the
construction of the building. There is a hole in the
floor there. There are also pictures of the ceiling and
roof. '
Mrs. Lytle : Do you have this building insured?
Mr. Terp: My brother has it insured. I am not sure how
much. He runs the business and I 'don't derive any rent
out of it. He pays the taxes and the insurance. When
the mortgage comes off, forget the insurance. The mort-
` gage is down to $5400, I think.
Mrs. Lytle: I assume that these are accurate .pictures
=Y of the building.
• Mr. Terp: Mr. Bogan, can you attest to the fact that
these are pictures of the Variety Store? There is drift-
wood' in the roof. I am only saying that the valuation
they put on it is ridiculous.
Mr. Bogan: You have down here $27,000 mortgage.
Mr. Heuser: That was the original mortgage.
Mr. Bogan: Did that take in the piece in back of the
drug store? .
Mr. Terp: No, there is one to the east of the drug store
and there is one to the west.
Mrs. Lytle: The land would be included in that, too.
You have about $15,000 worth of land. This barber shop
is part of- this. What condition is it in?
Mr. Terp I have charged the man; the same rent as in
1964. He has done his own work and put some panelling
in. I haven't done anything to it.
Mr. Heuser: The interior looks pretty nice.
Mr. Terp: I didn't increase the man because he did the
work himself,
#17. The Board saw Mrs. Reiter. The situation is .such that
the Board cannot discuss the tax on the whole piece
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -23- July 16, 1974
because Mrs. Reiter didn't own it and the tax on the
piece she is buying has not been billed to her as yet.
The deed is not in the possession of the assessors.
The Board recessed at 4:25 p.m. to reconvene at 7:00 p.m.
#18. Alfred Terp, Southold, New York
Property located in Cutchogue.
N - Wickham
S - Main Road
E - Old Town Arts and Crafts
W Baxter, Terp
$2400 land
The oath was declared still in effect from the afternoon
session.
Mr. DeMaula: This is the vacant lot. I am taking this
off last year' s which is $45 a running foot. It is 1/2
acre.
=r Mr. Terp: I feel that a vacant lot which is not being
used for anything more than a parking lot for. myself and
a few people for Arts and Crafts and for a garden.
? Originally, we bought the place and it hada two-family
house on it and that burned down. Since the house was
removed, you can see how much, the tax jumped up on it.
Mrs. Lytle: When was the house removed? (they looked
at the card) It was $3500 and they dropped it down to
$1400 and then they brought it up to $2400. That was
nine years later.
Mr. Terp: The property has not changed. On Depot Lane
there is the most costly land. As you come closer to the
village it keeps decreasing in valuation and then all of
a sudden it jumps up and Arts and Crafts and this piece
of property is $45. I gave you people quite a summation
of the land and .I looked at the cards again this year.
The North Fork Bank has 90 feet and has not been changed.
Rysko has 120 feet of frontage and a depth of 165 feet.
Are those cards the bible of this organization?
Mr. Bogan: They are supposed to be.
Mr. Terp: If this is true, that is what it says on the
cards.
Mrs. Lytle: You have taken that off the card?
Grievance Day .
Town of Southold " -24- July 16, 1974
Mr. Heuser: In the comparison, he only has a quarter of
an acre here. He doesn't have the same value as your
lot.
Mr. Terp: Which' is more valuable, the frontage or the
depth?
Mr.. Heuser: The frontage would be valuable except for the
irregular shape of this piece of property. When you get
back here it goes to nothing.
(Discussion in reference to Rysko ' s property. )
Mr. Terp: You go down here to Elizabeth Sammehill. She
has 3/4 of an acre, of land, Stype Realty, 300 x 80. Do
you concur with that?
Mr. Heuser: Yes.
Mr. DeMaula: How is her property zoned?
Mr. Terp: Commercial. She doesn't have 3/4 of an acre
but approximately 1/2 acre. What I am trying to point
out is I was told the further you go from the center of
town the less the property is worth per front foot. The
reverse is true when you work west from Depot Lane. The
frontage decreases in price as you come west.
Mr. DeMaula: What do you consider the center of town?
Let' s pick out the most expensive piece per frontage.
Twin Oaks is $45 and your vacant lot is $45.
Mr. Terp: You go across the street and next door and it
is ten, twelve, thirteen.
Mr. DeMaula: I can justify the sixteen where .the Shell
Station is on the corner.
Mr. Terp: How about the Seven-Eleven? The only two I
found .were Mr. Kaelin's. He had ninety feet of .frontage
but it turned out to be 65.
Mr. Bogan: His assessment was wrong?
Mr. DeMaula: - F. Kaelin Realty. We have 90 foot frontage.
It is 65 feet on the new one.
Mr. Terp:, Last year Iasked this committee if all the
business property had been reassessed in Cutchogue. I
think it was so stated that they all had been. I asked
then if all the business property had been reassessed.
The answer was- yes. I looked again'this year and William
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -25- July 16, 1974
Sterling' s had not been reassessed since 1966. I would
like it to show in the record. This piece of property
with 45 foot frontage is adjacent to the Post Office and
is at $5 a running foot. Adjacent property is $6 a front
foot on the east side, all commercial property. I would
consider the heart of the town as the Post Office to a
degree.
Mr. DeMaula: I don't think you can consider a side road
as valuable as Main Road property.
Mr. Terp: If you went to buy that you would pay $50 to
$60 a front foot. _
Mr. DeMaula: I grant you there is a discrepancy here.
Mr. Terp: I will sell 'it tomorrow morning at that rate.
Mr. DeMaula: I want to make sure because there is some-
thing very erroneous here if this was told to you and
you found out something ,different. I cannot find it in
the minutes.
z Mrs. Lytle: I remember it.
E Mr. DeMaula: It was said and the statement was made.
Mr. Terp: If you recall a little further. Dill' s had
been reassessed three times since its inception whereas
Sterling' s has not been reassessed since 1966 on the card.
Mr. Bogan: Who is Assanee Realty?
Mrs. - Lytle: Hill' s. . They are assessed at $80 . a front
foot and Sterling is at $15.
Mr. Terp: They both have almost the same depth.
Mr. Heuser: It goes back 600 feet.
Mr. Terp: The greenhouses are way behind that.
Mr. DeMaula: I don't believe the frontage foot would
matter no matter what was on the property. I assume
this , is the way it is done. Am I correct in assuming it
z` wouldn't matter what is on a piece of property'in the
center of town, it is because of its location the way it
is being taxed?
Mr. Fox: It would be taxed lower. f you had a ,building
on it, but not a great deal lower. The land itself might
be $2 a foot lower. If it had a store or a building, the
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -26- July 16, 1974
land would go up $2 or $3 more plus whatever the building
was.
Mr. DeMaula: It doesn't matter too much if there was
something elaborate on this property or' something non-
elaborate?
Mr. Fox: It wouldn't affect the land value, as long as
it is being used as commercial property.
Mrs. Lytle: Why is Hill ' s property at $80 a front foot
and Sterling which is adjacent to it $15 a foot?
Mr. Fox: Sterling is a retail business and doesn't have,
the depth that Hill' s has. He has two businesses there,
a retail shop and a farm section in back where he raises
things.
Mrs. Lytle : On part of that land he gats a special rate?
Mr. Fox: His retail land goes to a certain depth plus
Hill' s is all blacktopped with alot of lights.
Mrs. Lytle: Hill's shows 643 and Sterling 600.
~� Mr. Fox: The whole front of Hill' s is blacktopped. If
... Sterling was alllvrticulture it would be a lower rate.
Mrs. Lytle: Is the $15 the retail or 'zorticulture rate?
Mr. Fox He has no blacktopping and no lighting fixtures.
Mrs. Lytle: There is no breakdown.
Mr. Fox: It is a combination figure.
Mrs. Lytle: We have no way to find out how much the
retail section is?
Mr. Fox: It would be 2/3 and 1/3 to break it down.
It is $15 a foot because it is a retail and wholesale.
There is no comparison to Hill' s.
Mr. Terp: Would you ask Mr. Fox if the further from
town you went, the lower the rate?
Mr. Fox: It generally prevails. You take the heart of
the business district with the exception of Hill' s.
Mrs. Lytle: Would you consider the North Fork Sank the
center of town? Going east and west it should drop.
Mr: Fox: This is how an appraisal , is done.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -28 July 16, 1974
Mr. Heuser: The question was raised, Mr. Fox, about,
Rysko and his frontage but we pointed out the irregular
shape of his land. .
Mr. Fox: You take your corner on New Suffolk Avenue and
take the angle he has no rear.
Mrs. Lytle: Isn't his frontage of value?
Mr. Fox: But what depth does he have?
Mr. Bogan: Is that 34 foot frontage the drug store
Mr. Terp: Yes, the reason I never questioned it is be-
cause it is a going business.
Mr. DeMaula: We established if something was on th(.
property the value has nothing to do with the building
on it.
Mr. Terp: You concur with that?
Mr. DeMaula: If this is being done. I don't have - -o
concur but if this is holding true on the assessing
procedure I think we have to hold with it. If all these
lots were vacant, for the sake of argument, except one
and they were all approximately the same and then th
one with the building was $38,_ I would say it is ho7iing
true.
Mr. Terp: If we take the width and depth of the drug
store lot and relate it to any others here, I am paying
$30 a front foot and it is the smallest depth of any lot.
Mr. DeMaula: Luce Realty has 127 feet and is also pay-
ing $30 a front foot.
Mr. Lytle: How close is Kaelin' s?
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Mr. Bogan: Across the street and east.
Mr. Terp: I would say the drugstore piece is the
narrowest piece.
Mrs. Lytle: This piece of property here, Terp' s property,
34 foot frontage, you pay per foot 86 foot deep. He
is paying $30. Kaelin who is exactly across the street
to the west, he is paying $25.
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -29- July 16, 1974
Mr. Fox: Please check the cards.
Mrs. Lytle: Please pull the cards.
Mr.Terp: I know the drug store is 35 < 85 because the
building is 34'10" and I never objectei because there
was a going business but if this has n) relation, if
they charge the same, that doesn't makD sense. Something
is not equitable. If one is fair, the:z something is
wrong.
Mr. DeMaula: The map checks out with the paper. May I
see the application for his reduction?
Mrs. Lytle: This is unoccupied land and this is
occupied (drug store) .
Mr. Bogan: On that 350 feet when you go back you are
fenced in on your east side by Stan Case.
Mr. Terp: The north side by John Wickham and on the
west from 182 to 35, about 168 feet, boxed in by Schneider,,
Baxter, Wickham and Case. I never questioned the Variety
Store or the Drug Store because of a going business. I
couldn't see paying for an empty lot.
Mr. DeMaula: I think the two stores are in line for the
frontage and the depth. You are way over square on one.
The building across the street I think is a poor comparison
because of his irregular shaped piece. Luce' s property
and the bank, I think you have something. I am going to
seriously consider it.
Mr. Terp: I would appreciate it because Mr. Fox stated
the depth factor.
Mr. Bogan: This says 350 feet deep on the vacant lot,
one half of the depth is boxed in.
Mr. Terp: Once you get back, what are you going to do
with it?
Mr. DeMaula: You take a piece of property that is narrow
and long, that is not as valuable as a piece that has the
frontage.
Mr. Terp: When he said the building had nothing to do
with it, let' s take the smallest piece' in town and equate
everything proportionately to that.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -30- July 16, 1974
#19. Isabel Sarkisian, 35 West 44th Street, New York (mail)
Lot 10 - Marratooka Park $5,000 land
.973 acres
#20. Isabel Sarkisian, 35 West 44th Street, New York (mail)
Lot 11 - Marratooka Park $4900 land, $16,100 land & buildings
.98 acres
#21. Sark Equities, Inc. , 35 West 44th Street, New York (mail)
Lot 9 - Marratooka Park $4,000 land
500 foot frontage on the road 3-1/2 acres
Property located in Mattituck.
N - Wickham
S - Park Avenue
E - Marratooka Road
W - Dexter
#22. John Pedersen, Middleton Road, Greenport
Property located in Greenport.
N - Krukowski
S - H. Staples
E - Reeves and Staples
W - Middleton Road
$600 land $4400 land and buildings
Mr. DeMaula administered the oath as follows:
"Do you, John Pedersen, solemnly swear that the informa-
tion you give herein will be given accurately and truth-
fully to the best of your ability?"
Mr. Pedersen: I do.
Mrs. Lytle: We see you have the equalization rate as
17%. Southold assessors work on 25/ of the full market
value of 1965. That would make uite a difference in your
figuring. You are asking for a 9200 reduction?
Mr. Pedersen: I compared it with the other house.
Mrs. Lytle: Your property is insured for $30,000?
Mr. Pedersen: Yes.
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Grievance Day
Town of Southold -31- July 16, 1974
Mrs. Lytle: If you take your total assessed valuation
$4400 and you multiply by 25% you come to $17,600 for
your total and you have your property at $30,000 and you
have a mortgage of $17,500. Don't you consider it worth
more than $17,600?
Mr. Pedersen: The other guy would, too. He has one-
half acre bf land. I have a cablevision tower in my
backyard.
Mrs. Lytle: Are you Esking for the reduction on your
land or your house?
Mr. Pedersen: I didn' t consider that. He has all
electric, I have oil heat. I don't have oak completely
throughout the whole house, only two bedrooms have the
oak.
Mrs. Lytle: He has tile floors.
Mr. Pedersen: The other name is Neil McDonald in
Mattituck.
Mr. DeMaula: There is twenty some odd square feet differ-
ence in the living area and fifty plus in the garage.
Mr. Pedersen: There are dumps down my way, too. I am
on the extension of Middleton Road
Neil MacDonald owns lot 20 in Village Manor, Mattituck.
His property consists of .576 acres. He is assessed at
$600 for the land and $4200 for the land and buildings.
Mr. Pederson has 3354 square feet living area aid 442
square feet for the garage. Mr. MacDonald has 3168 square
feet living area and 384 square feet for the garage.
#23. United Artists Eastern Theatres (mail)
This is also known as the Greenport Playhouse or the
Greenport Theatre. Mr. Fox reported that this is still
in the courts.
#24. United Artists Eastern Theatres (mail)
This is also known as the Skyway Drive-In. Mr. Fox
reported that this is still in the courts.
#25. 235 Mill Street Limited
This is also known as the A & P. Mr. Fox reported that
this is still in the courts.
There being no one else wishing to be heard, Mrs. Lytle
adjourned the meeting at 9:30 p.m.
Grievance Day
Town of Southold -32- July 16, 1974
The Board met again on July 22, 1974 to go over additional
mail that had come in.
#26. John Tsoumpas, 144042 28th Avenue, Flv.shing
$1800 land
This piec6 of mail was postmarked July 18, 1974 which
was too late for it to be acted upon.
#27. Gulf Oil Corp. lessee
N - Centre Street
E - Main Street
S - Lillian Amott
W - Robert Warner
The last assessment date on this piece of property was
March 1960. The Board has no authority to give a
reduction on capitalization of income.
#28. Ross Wick, 213 Belair Terrace, Moorestown, New Jersey
Code 7160
$3900
Respectfully submitted,
Muriel Brush, Secretary
At the end of each personal appearance the Chairman, Mrs.
Lytle, asked each member of the Board if they had any more
questions to ask the person. She, then, told each person
that they would be notified in a week or so as to the
decision of the Board.
FROM: Assessor
TO: Board of Assessment Review
RE: TRANSMITTAL OF GRIEVANCE FORMS (complaints)
DATE: l
This is to certify that the tentative assessment roll for the
Town of S6 o f 4 o /d , was prepared by the Office of the Town
Assessor on _�Tv f y q
As of the public declaration of the tentative roll for the
tax year 197 /7,}; the office of the Town Assessor has not, in
accordance with the State Laws, permitted or allowed any amendment
to the assessment roll which increases, decreases or amends assessments.
Also, as of the public date of the tentative roll, the Assessor' s
Office has acted in a custodial way in accurately keeping all
grievance or complaint forms which are transmitted in their entirety
at this time to the Board of Assessment Review.
Total number of grievance forms attached herewith -
Sole Assessor
O airman Board of Assessors
R.P.T.S.A. - 200 - 4/72
BAR-1
FROM: Board of Assessment Review
TO: Town Assessor
RE: ORDER FOR CHANGE IN ASSESSMENT ROLL
DATE:
The Board of Assessment Review for the Town of icL 6
has duly met to hear complaints or grievances on the tentative
town assessment roll for the tax year 190,/ 'S, as prescribed by law.
The Board, having duly convened, has considered each and every
complaint or grievance on the assessments for the tax year indicated,
as filed with this Board, as prescribed by law.
A majority of the Board had determined that all of the changes
indicated on the attached page (s) will be made on the assessment
roll by the Town Assessor. (BAR-2 - Part II)
Total number of complaints submitted by assessor
Total number of complaints received on Grievance Day - ,)
Total number of complaints reviewed by the Board
Total number of recommended reductions in assessment - 1�
Total number of recommended increases in assessment -
Total number of grievances without a change
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Assessment Review hereby orders the
assessor or board of assessors to make all changes in assessments as
determined by the/Board of Assessment Review on the assessoent roll
of the Town of*, JZ"t-c' 4--(X_t-(`d, for the tax year 19
conformance with this order.
BAR-2 - Page 1 of 2
ST :TE OF NEW YORI\
COUNTY OF ) ss :
T0 •N OR VILLAGE 0
The undersigned, being duly sworn do severally depose and
say that deponents are members of the Board of Assessment Review;
that deponents have read the foregoing and know the contents thereof;
and the matters set forth are true to the best of the deponents '
knowledge. '
Sworn to before me this ��u1ay
o f ��� �, 19
Niotary Public
4Ca?Lrrm an Member,,'f
Member
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NTHRY uBIc. ,
Na 51 o` 'rew York
Coun}y ember
p'r'ay "arch 30, 19.,'
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Member
R.P.T.S.A. - 200 - 4/72
BAR-2 - Page 2 of 2
ASSESSMENT L - YEAR 191/
7ZTOWN 0 /�—
Complaint Last Name
or Of Owner Property Assessment Assessment
Grievance No. On Roll Desc. From To
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R.P.T.S.A. - 500 - 4/7
BAR-2 - Part II
FROM: Assessor
TO: Board of Assessment Review
RE: ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF CHANGE TO ASSESSMENT ROLL
DATE: 7
This will acknowledge order from the Board of Assessment Review
to amend (Number of) 2.� assessment items in the
assessment roll in the Town of vf� o `d
for the tax
year 197 Yl
This will acknowledge that the Office of the Assessor has completed
all changes as ordered by the Board of Assessment Review.
Sole Town Assessor
Chairman of the Board o
Assessors
R.P.T.S.A. - 200 - 4/72
BAR-3
Board f Asses.,;.mont RevL`w
10: �C� � Town Clerk
Rte: 1WPORT - LOARD 'OF ASSESSMENT RINIEW - TAX YEAR
DATE
Attached 'herewith please find for public filing in your office, the
complete file covering the public hcaring (s) of the Board of
Assessment Reviow, together with changes ordered by this Board to
the assessment roll, Assessors ' acknowledgment, etc.
The duties of the Board of Assessment Review for the grievance
period covering the 1 //' assessment roll are completed.
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Chairman N,em�•be
Member
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Member
R.P.T.S.A. - 200 - 4/72
Attachment: Form BAR-1, Parts I and II, Form BAR-3 , Form BAR-4
CC: Town Supervisor - with attachments
Director, Real Property Tax Service Agency - with attachments
Office of Town Assessor - with attachments
Form BAR-4
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August 9, 197+
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This will acknowledge receipt of complete file of
Igrievance forms and minutes of Grievance Day proceed-
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ings, July 16, 1974, from Mrs. Mabel Lytle, Chairman
of the Assessment Hoard of Review.
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Albert M. Martocchia
Supervisor
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