A Story About a Crooked Mayor

As some of you remember, Mayor Donchess wormed his way out of paying his fair share of taxes when the unethical Assessor Greg Turgiss gifted the Mayor a very low assessment by ignoring the total renovation of the Mayor’s home identified by a $100,000 permit obtained for the work.

The permit stays open for 5 years without proper notation; Turgiss is too lazy to document anything. When the permit was finally closed, Turgiss failed to decrease the depreciation the way other renovated older Nashua homes were adjusted. 

Turgiss decided the Mayor’s house was equivalent to a 1970 home after being fully renovated, down to the studs. Meanwhile, during the same time, the Turgiss brother’s, Gary & Greg, Nashua’s only two residential property assessors at the time are jacking up the assessments on other older renovated homes, particularly if the home sold, and changing the depreciation. Some of these properties were slammed with assessment increases of over $100,000.

All this takes place between 2008 and 2013. Fast forward to the KRT 2018 assessment update and crooked Donchess cuts himself another tax break.

I accidently and inadvertently discovered the Mayor’s finagled property record card doing broad research in the Assessing office in October 2018. This discovery made it way up to the Mayor’s office, so he illegally took his public property record file out of the assessing office so it was no longer in public circulation. Slick move from our City’s leader.

I wrote him a private letter counseling him to do the right thing and fix his assessment. He ignored the letter. Six weeks later, I called him out in a public Board of Aldermen meeting. That hair has stayed across his ass ever since.

KRT did some unexplainable, undocumented work by changing some depreciation values on properties during the 2018 update. Instead of making a model to fit the data, it looked like KRT made the data fit the model.

KRT held a meeting with the City after the new assessments were calculated and told the City there were problems with the Nashua assessments and income data. A set of distressing minutes were created that the City hid from the public. I got a hold of those meeting notes and that laid another hair across the Mayor’s ass.

Because I publicly called out the Mayor’s card, KRT made an undocumented change to the Mayor depreciation changing the year of the home to 1979 for a complete remodel. But KRT never lowered the actual depreciation, so once again there was no tax increase for the Mayor. "Regular folks" properties that KRT changed year built were paying more taxes.

The final crescendo, Mayor Donchess promised the public that KRT would hold a Spring 2019 meeting to answer public questions about their modeling techniques and the methods used to create the new assessments. Donchess canceled the meeting.

KRT failed to deliver on many parts of the contract. Instead of suing KRT, the Mayor attacks the citizen who uncovers all this employing the police, the media, and the henchmen Aldermen to indict and destroy her reputation. This is a story about a Crooked Mayor.