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The Board of Assessment Review (BAR) for the Village of Pleasantville convened on March 25, 2026 (the audio transcript and agenda list the meeting date as March 23, 2026) to review and act upon the recommendations of Assessor Lloyd Tash regarding 75 tax certiorari grievances filed against the 2026 tentative assessment roll. The board voted unanimously to adopt the assessor's recommendations as the final determinations.
It be true. Welcome all. Today is Monday, March 23rd, uh 6:30 p.m. Uh, we are meeting in our role as the Board of Assessment Review uh for uh tax grievances that were filed uh in February. We had a tax grievance night. Some folks elected to come and make their case to us. Most uh people who filed the grievance simply filed it. Also online uh is uh Lloyd Tash, our assessor. Lloyd, are you there? You can unmute if you would. Uh yes, I am. Can you hear me? We can. Okay. Okay. Lloyd has provided a spreadsheet of all of the grievances that were filed and his proposed uh resolution of them. You want to just give us a summary of what you did and how you arrived at those in in at the 50,000 foot level? Uh yeah. Um most of the cases that uh I received were just uh applications and did not provide sufficient evidence to make a uh a decision or recommendation uh to you. Uh those those that did provide evidence, uh I did make some recommendations for reductions. Um they they were completely based on the evidence provided in the application. Um some of the people that did come in to uh grievance night, um they did provide evidence, but uh the the evidence uh was not deemed uh um to uh sufficient to allow for a reduction. Am I accurate in describing that a certain number of these are uh filed by uh companies that offer to do this on behalf of a homeowner and then they that is file this without any evidence simply to sort of establish a foothold? That it that is correct. They fully expect to go to small claims assessment review uh to uh negotiate uh their cases in a circumstance where they give it further examination and determine that it is uh likely worth their time. That is correct. Okay, so Lloyd, uh could you just describe for the benefit of anyone who is listening who filed one of these what their next step is if they are dissatisfied with the result? Okay, well, the first the first thing that's going to happen is uh all the grievance are going to receive a letter uh with the decision made by you, the Board of Assessment Review, and they will have 30 days to file the the residential will file with the uh with the county uh in order to enter uh proceedings for a small claims assessment review hearing. Uh the commercial uh files sortiaries uh upon uh the village of uh pleasantville and uh they are they are not heard uh immediately. Okay. So uh if a homeowner uh who uh who themselves sought um a reduction and did not achieve it, their option is to go to small claims assessment review. They can pick up the forms for that. Right. On the New York State Office of Real Property Tax. Is that where they'd find it? Uh well they file with the county.