In the next few months, Vision will wrap up its revaluation for Nashua. Data will be released in early fall. Four years and still no transparency. The City still has not opened property records for access at the assessing counter.
Vision will not answer any questions regarding the depreciation factor problems with properties. Vision and the City will not answer any revaluation questions in general. The City has lost numerous lawsuits under the Right to know laws on assessing records. NO ONE SHOULD TRUST THESE NEW NUMBERS.
The State is fostering closed records in Nashua and is part of the problem. The Board of Tax and Land Appeal opened a court docket on the revaluation to monitor Nashua but only allows the City to be on the docket. CITIZENS HAVE NO VOICE AND ONLY ONE SIDE IS REPRESENTED.
Kim Kleiner is providing the information to the BTLA while appearing to withhold public records from citizens. This is not the voice of truth that should be representing Nashua. The Mayor and legal office appear to be backing this charade.
Nashua has a corrupted assessing office – information corruption remains a problem. I tried to access the property record file on the new art center on February 3, 2022, after a public board of Assessors Meeting. I asked about the file at a December 2, 2021 board of Assessor meeting and was later told I would get answers. No one provided answers.
On February 3, 2022, the City police issued an order that I could not come to City Hall for the day because I was cited by unknown staff for being disorderly. The entire police write-up is a sham. None of this is right. The officer who wrote the record was not at the scene and never identified himself to me. The write-up is below:
“Spoke with several members of City Hall Staff and was informed that the compl[aintant] attended a meeting at City Hall in which she was very vocal. After the meeting the compl[aintant]requested several documents that were not immediately available as they were outside of the building. Upon hearing that she would have to wait for the documents, the compl[aintant]began yelling at city hail employees. The compl[aintant]was then asked to leave the building, after which the compl[aintant]called the police. The compi was acting disorderly and the decision to ask her to leave the building was appropriate. compl[aintant]was instructed to leave the premises and not return for the remainder of the business day and complied without incident. This has been a reoccurring issue with the compl[aintant].”
THESE NEW ASSESSMENTS ARE BEING GENERATED WITHOUT ANY PUBLIC OVERSIGHT AND SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED.
Threatening to arrest citizens who have been denied access to records for 2.5 years is unacceptable. The Police represent the City not the Citizens. Their raises, union contracts and budgets are controlled by the Mayor. Please write to the BTLA and the Executive Councilors and ask that dockets opened by the BTLA based on citizen discovery allow representation of the citizens.
THERE WILL BE NO CREDIBLE INFORMATION FROM THIS REVALUATION WITHOUT CITIZEN OVERSIGHT.
Executive Councilor David Wheeler <dave@davewheeler.org>, Ted.Gatsas@nh.gov, Cinde.Warmington@nh.gov, “Stevens, Janet” <Janet.L.Stevens@nh.gov>, “Kenney, Joseph” <Joseph.D.Kenney@nh.gov>, resBTLAClerk@btla.nh.gov