News and Views

Bow taxpayers: Check your recent assessments. I did. While the assessment on my land dropped (It was and is still overpriced for an acre), the assessment on my house went up approximately 2 percent. Other Bow property owners I spoken with have also noticed this. The assessor also added a fireplace which I do not have.

According to the Bow selectmen’s August 19 minutes, the person hired by the selectmen for assessing said that prices on homes sold so far in 2009 are 8 percent below last year. Condo sales are 16 percent lower. And Bow is currently assessed at 106 percent. What will stop the selectmen and the town from assessing at 200 percent? Or 500 percent?

If the value of my home based on sales has dropped 8 percent, then why is the town of Bow raising the assessment on my home by 2 percent? Trust me, when our tax bills come in December, they will hit us hard.

Call or write your selectmen now.
Bryan Milazzo
Bow

A second letter to the editor has been published in the Concord Monitor this week attacking a Bow voter’s right to a secret ballot. The more vicious of the two letters was penned by well-known OPM Addict (OPM=Other People’s Money) Jean Rich. In her letter Rich accused five of her fellow Bow neighbors of requesting a secret ballot for “solely political purposes” without providing any evidence to her vicious claim. She also went on to state that any additional requests for secret ballot would be “frivolous.”

Rich’s attempt to tie SB2 and the failed pay-as-you-throw program into her argument was very weak seemed to expose her disgruntlement over someone else exercising their right to a secret ballot and her inability to influence their vote by intimidation.

How do BCC feel about people trying to take other people’s rights away?