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City Council Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Docket #1621

A hearing regarding an order to adopt the residential factor and approve the residential exemption in the City of Boston for Fiscal Year 2019. The Chair of the Committee and the Sponsor of the Docket are Councilor Ciommo.

The public can offer testimony.

Discussion Topics

  1. Docket #1621

    Order that pursuant to Chapter 40, section 56, the residential factor in the City of Boston for FY2019 shall be the minimum residential factor as determined by the Commissioner of Revenue pursuant to M. G. L. Chapter 58, section 1A and be it further that pursuant to Chapter 59, section 5C, as amended, a residential exemption in the amount of value equal to thirty five percent (35%) of the average assessed value of all Class One-Residential parcels in the City of Boston be, and hereby is approved for Fiscal Year 2019.

    This matter was sponsored by Councilor Mark S. Ciommo, and referred to the Committee on November 7, 2018.

    NOTICE:  The Boston City Council may have a quorum in attendance due to standing committees of the City Council consisting of both voting and non-voting members.  However, members attending this duly posted meeting are participating and deliberating only in conjunction with the business of the standing committee.

    Public Testimony

    Members of the public are cordially invited to attend and testify.  If you have not testified at a Council hearing before, please arrive five (5) minutes before the call of the hearing to sign up and become familiar with the hearing format, testimony locations, and sound system.  Please bring fifteen (15) copies of any written documentation you wish to present at the hearing.

    Written comments may be made part of the record and available to all Councilors by sending them by email, fax or mail to arrive before the hearing. Please use the information below.

    Mail Address:  Docket #1621, City Council, City Hall, 5th Floor, Boston MA 02201

    Fax Number:  617-635-4203 Attn: Michelle A. Goldberg, Docket #1621

    Committee EmailCCC.WM@Boston.gov

    Staff Email: michelle.a.goldberg@boston.gov   Staff Telephone617-635-4645

    Broadcast Live on Comcast 8/RCN 82/Verizon 1964 or streamed at: boston.gov/city-council-tv

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