WATERTOWN — For the first time in nearly five months, former Mayor Jeffrey E. Graham is back in front of a microphone, talking about the issues of the day with
WATERTOWN â Towns in Jefferson County have had trouble finding enough people to sit on the boards that handle some of their most important government functions in recent years.
County Real Property Director Roxanne M. Burns, who oversees property taxes for the entire county, said sheâs been hearing complaints from town supervisors across the county for years about how difficult it is getting to find members to fill their boards of assessment review, specifically.
These boards are three- or five-member bodies, tasked with hearing complaints from property owners about their property value assessments, which set how much they will pay in property taxes. These boards are empowered to adjust assessments, making them one of the primary bodies for taxation in each town.