Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell gets up super early – like, around 10 a.m. – and places a series of brightly colored eggs with notes inside all around town. Then, he emails us the city memo. What, you thought he hid the memo inside the eggs for us to find? That wouldn’t be very efficient at all, now would it?
Do I have to?
It’s property tax time, y’all
Residents are reminded that fourth quarter installment payments for 2012 property taxes are due by March 31, Aspell writes. There are several options available for making payments, none of which include the barter system:
1) You can make your payment at the collections office located at City Hall. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursdays. Payments during non-office hours should take place in a dark alley and include some sort of creepy briefcase exchange.
2) You can avoid waiting in long lines and drop your payment in the mail slot at the front door of City Hall. It is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and you will receive same day credit. Plus, you get to try to squeeze a bag full of pennies through a mail slot!
3) You can mail your payment with a copy of your bill to: City of Concord, P.O. Box 9582, Manchester, N.H. 03108-9582. Wait, Concord is in Manchester? Our whole life is a lie!
4) You can pay on line at concordnh.gov and follow the link to Online Bill Pay.
While online, take the opportunity to sign up for future email alerts to remind you when taxes are due. Or you could sign up for a punch in the stomach every few months to achieve the same sensation.
Please note, any 2012 taxes that remain unpaid after March 31 will be subject to the lien process.
While we’re talking taxes
Another fun deadline
April 15 is the deadline to submit new applications for property tax exemptions and credits, Aspell writes. The deadline pertains to elderly and blind exemptions, veteran credits, current use assessment, and agricultural discretionary preservation easements, as well as people whose dogs ate their tax payments.
April 15 is also the deadline for the annual filing of A-9 applications requesting educational, religious, or charitable property tax exemptions. Property owners requesting a charitable exemption must also file an A-12 application and financial data before June 1. You can then file an A-OK and give a big thumbs up.
For more information, call the assessing office at 225-8550, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Bridge is out
But just for a few days
The Sewalls Falls bridge will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, in order to remove some large pine trees on the west side of the bridge and north of the elevated bridge approach, Aspell writes.
Rather than waiting in your idling car during those six hours each day, we recommend choosing an alternate route.
