Town paying firm $300K to reassess properties
RHINEBECK, N.Y. » The Town Board has voted to pay White Plains-based Tyler Technologies $300,000 to conduct a townwide revaluation of properties.
The effort is to begin in June and take about two years to complete.
“It will be on the rolls [in] July 2020 for the 2021 year,” town Supervisor Elizabeth Spinzia said.
Tyler Technologies was among four firms that submitted proposals to the work. The others were Maxwell Appraisal Service of Liverpool, N.Y., for $295,000; Equitable Assessments of Wappingers Falls, for $230,000; and GAR Associates of Clifton Park for $450,000.
Tyler Technologies project supervisor Salim Serdah said the company will give Rhinebeck property owners an opportunity to ask questions about the process.
“We will have meetings, invite the public,” he said.
Former Town Assessor Jennifer Mund said such meetings “really help people understand why we’re coming and what we’re doing there. It just takes away a little bit of the fear and intimidation of having somebody coming and knocking at your door.”
The project, in which 3,800 parcels are to have their assessments updated, was proposed in 2016. The last townwide revaluation was in 2005.
Spinzia has said the update is needed, in part, because there are significant difference in the assessments of properties that should have similar values.