Last fall, the Borough of Glen Ridge began a townwide property tax re-evaluation, and residents have been waiting, many anxiously, for their new assessments to arrive.

This morning, a Glen Ridge resident let Baristanet know while he’d not yet gotten his re-evaluation, he did receive an email “reminding” him that homeowners who wanted a further explanation of (or to refute) their new figures, had only a few days left to make an appointment.

The tipster wrote, “I have yet to see my own figures, or any public posting as was previously available on the contractors website, but don’t know how you can discuss what you have not seen. Perhaps they will make this available to us in the interim but no mention in this notice or on the Borough website.” Indeed, we couldn’t find anything on the site either except for a copy of this morning’s email.

George Librizzi, the Borough’s tax assessor said that residents’ official new assessment notices were supposed to be mailed on Tuesday, but there was a delay at the out-of-state printing facility. Notices should arrive in mailboxes today, he said. The email blast that went out this morning — which Librizzi said he was unaware of — will be followed-up with a revised email outlining a new schedule, he said.

Residents will now have until Thursday, March 7 to call Tyler Technologies to schedule an appointment; Librizzi said appointments will take place until March 12.

We questioned Librizzi about the compressed schedule, which still leaves residents with less than a week to move into action, after waiting many months for the information. He noted that he must comply with a March 15 deadline to file the certified tax list. He defended the “hurry-up” nature of the procedure, pointing out that he’d made several extensions of the inspection process to accommodate residents who were unable to be at home upon the inspector’s first attempt.

Meanwhile, Glen Ridge residents, did you get your official new tax re-evaluations in the postal mail today? Will you be making an appointment to question the new figure?

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