Dave, a Town of Needham staff member, reported after an executive session that the board approved property tax abatements for 5 Bancroft, 72 Mayflower, 57 Ware Road (reconsidered and approved), 75 Washington Avenue and 40 Caravan; denied an abatement for 56 Lynn Road; and approved tax deferrals for properties at 6 Reddington Road, 114 Grant Street and 111 Pine Street.

The report matters because abatement and deferral decisions affect individual taxpayers and municipal revenue. Dave said the board found the taxpayers "were eligible and met all the qualifications in the fourth 3 0 3 application," indicating staff review of eligibility criteria before the board acted.

According to Dave’s report, the board took the following actions during the executive session report out: approved abatements for 5 Bancroft, 72 Mayflower, 57 Ware Road (which the board said it had reconsidered before approving), 75 Washington Avenue and 40 Caravan; denied an abatement for 56 Lynn Road; and approved tax deferrals for 6 Reddington Road, 114 Grant Street and 111 Pine Street. The report did not include vote tallies or mover/second names for the abatements and deferrals.

Meeting business that followed included scheduling: the board set its next meeting for one week from the date of this session and changed the start time to 9:30 a.m. The meeting concluded after a motion to adjourn was moved and seconded and carried by a voice vote recorded as multiple "Aye" responses.

The board did not provide additional details in the public report about the grounds for the denials or the specific terms of the deferrals. No legal citations or staff memos were read into the public record during the report out, and the transcript does not include vote tallies for the individual abatements and deferrals.