Pelham NH - Assessor

Business Hours
8:00am - 4:00pm Monday through Friday

Assessing Assistant	Susan Snide
Phone	603-635-3317
Fax	603-508-3096
Email	assessor@pelhamweb.com
Address	Municipal Building 6 Village Green Pelham, NH 03076

Special Thanks to all the folks who offered refreshments to our inspector Larry on Tuesday!!

This is one component of the 2 step process to keep our values in line with Assessing Standards. Notices went out to residences in the geographic area to be inspected . Impact notices will go out to property owners who have a value change due to the statistical analysis of the sales over the past year.

Ron Doyon and Larry Lussier of Corcoran Consulting are conducting the cycled inspections.

Voters approved warrant articles at Town vote in March, which is now reflected in the tax bill. Contrary to popular opinion, the Selectmen and School Board members have no authority to raise taxes. Voters must approve all appropriations. Once WE vote, the BOS and School Board must remain within the amount approved by voters. What voters approved and rejected over the last 2 years are listed at the Pelham Web site (pelhamweb.com) Approved $$$ warrant articles affect your tax bill. Please go to the Pelham Web site and scroll to the 2007 and 2006 warrants to review the articles.

Did you vote? Pelham has about 13,000 residents. Only 730 voted (9%) in the Special Town Meeting in October 2007 on the teachers’ contract and only 2753 (34%) voted in March 2007. There are 8085 registered voters in Pelham.

Question #1. To see if the Pelham School District will vote to approve the cost items included in the Collective Bargaining Agreement reached between the Pelham School Board and the Pelham Education Association, which calls for the following increase in salaries and benefits at current staffing levels:
Year 2007-08 $ 283,514
Year 2008-09 $ 324,437
Year 2009-10 $ 340,600
And further to raise and appropriate the sum of TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FOURTEEN DOLLARS ($283,514) for the 2007-2008 school year, said sum representing the additional costs attributable to the increase in salaries and benefits over those of the appropriations at current staffing levels paid in the prior school year.
396 yes votes
331 no votes
3 blank votes"
Reported by Ken Dunne, School District Moderator and Glennie Edwards, School District Clerk

Please take the time to educate yourself on the warrant article questions and vote. The Deliberative Sessions for the Town and School Warrants, when we will have the opportunity to debate them, are to be held on February 5th and 6th 2008 respectively. WE then vote upon the Warrants at the March 11, 2008 Ballot Vote. The Pelham web site is a good resource for reviewing the Warrant Articles, which we will deliberate and vote upon.
Thank you to Victor Danevich, Ken Dunne and Glennie Edwards for their posts on the Pelham Message Board.

Calculating your tax bill:

The tax liability for a year is calculated in the fall of that year. While you will receive 2 tax bills per year, the first bill is an estimate or educated guess at what the tax liability may be for the year. It is calculated using the prior year’s tax rate and assessed value. However when the second bill arrives it is the true tax liability using the newly established tax rate in the fall. The first half bill amount is subtracted from the total tax liability to arrive at the final tax bill due in December.

Yearly tax liability = (assessed value) x (tax rate)/$1000 e.g., for 2006 the tax rate was 13.99/$1000. If your assessed value was $449,000, your tax liability for 2006 was $6282.

For 2007, the tax rate is $15.81/$1000. If your assessed value is still $449,000, your tax liability for 2007 is $7099.

Total increase from 2006 to 2007 is $817. If you paid $3141 for the first half tax bill in July 2007 then the 2nd half or December tax bill amount will be $7099 – $3141 = $3958.

The reason you paid $3141 for the first half of 2007 is that it is ½ of $6282---1/2 the 2006 tax liability.

The first half 2008 bill will be 1/2 the tax liability for 2007 = $3550.

Assessing Department

Town of Pelham NH