The Wayland Board of Assessors requests your cooperation with its initiative to ensure accuracy of all property records in town. In the state of Massachusetts, property values are used as the basis for fairly allocating all expenses established by the Town budget to all property owners. As approved by Town Meeting in 2009, and after [...]
Wayland Town Crier 10/29/09: Board of Assessors looks to the future. After a prolonged period of turmoil and personnel changes, the Wayland Board of Assessors office may be on track to perform more accurate, consistent property valuations and regain public credibility, according to Harald Scheid, president of the Regional Resource Group (RRG), a consulting company [...]
Wayland Town Crier 5/21/09: Staffing shakeup in Board of Assessors Department. The Board of Assessors terminated a part-time clerk position in the department earlier this month, a move that leaves only one full-time administrative assistant to staff the office.
Wayland Town Crier 2/26/09: Consultant offers harsh criticisms for Board of Assessors office. RRG, the consulting firm hired by the town to study assessment practices, delivered a devastating report on the Board of Assessors office on Monday night at the second of three public meetings.
Wayland Town Crier 2/12/09: Consultant updates residents on obtaining better data for assessments. The first of three sessions on assessments focused on improvements needed to ensure more accurate data, which include focus on higher-end homes (which tend to have more errors in their data) and capes (many of which had understated square footage), and the [...]
The public forum schedule by RRG Regional Resource Group on the Wayland Assessment Practices Study is: Monday, Feb. 9 – Results of the Data Quality Study Monday. Feb. 23 – Compliance and Competencies Monday March 9 – Best Practices and Recommendations These meetings will start at 6 pm and will be held in the Large [...]
