WELD — Selectmen voted Monday to grant an extension to Dummer Camps Inc. on an appeal President Carolina Gail Shreve filed with the Franklin County commissioners on a personal property tax abatement, according to Board of Selectmen Chairman Tom Skolfield.
The Weld board denied Shreve’s abatement request in October 2014.
The personal property tax abatement of $1.07 million in valuation amounted to $6,754.70 in taxes, according to the appeal packet.
According to Skolfield, the owners of the campground were asked to file information several times, but it was not filed.
County commissioners had scheduled an appeal hearing for Feb. 3, but Shreve said she asked for a postponement to the first meeting in March because of a scheduling conflict. Shreve lives out of state and works full time and needs to make arrangements to come to Maine.
In order to consider rescheduling the appeal hearing, Weld selectmen first had to grant an extension involving the abatement appeal process, county Clerk Julie Magoon said Friday. Commissioners will consider rescheduling Tuesday.
Shreve previously said she did not dispute the amount of the tax. The dispute is that the bill is not theirs because the recreational campers and associated buildings that are left at the campground during off-season belong to camper owners and they are insured by those owners.
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