What Does the Assessor's Office Do?

Your tax bill is made up of several different elements and this office is responsible for one of those elements: the assessing function. This function forms the basis of the distribution of the Town’s annual property tax levy.This town department oversees the discovery; listing and assigning of assessed values to every property in town. The town currently has over 9,500 properties in addition to numerous exempt properties. The department monitors all sales and analyzes the local real estate market, supply and demand, economic situations, and other influences that affect property values.The department maintains current ownership records, sales information as well as a variety of property characteristics. Those characteristics, in combination with analyses of market conditions, are used to estimate market values and in turn form the basis for the assessed value of property.