The Court Ordered Management Emails Tell a Story

The Court ordered the City to release emails between Director Kleiner and Chief of Assessing Vincent in January and February 2021. Why was the City hiding these public records?

Understand the City assessing office remained completely closed with no method to obtain date/time stamps for those submitting abatement applications. These are time sensitive documents; If they are not stamped by March 1st, they are rejected. I inquired at a public meeting how applications would be processed. Additionally, I emailed Ms. Kleiner, Chairman Hansberry, Chief Vincent and the legal office trying to find out the process. No answer was provided. 

Citizens were pleading with City Officials for the applications to be placed online to verify receipt of the applications. There was no response. 

Citizens offered a pragmatic suggestion- allow the City Hall entry check-in person to stamp the applications for the property owners. Once again, crickets. 

Citizens seeking abatements were contacting the assessing office concerned that no one was responding to their applications.

These emails are proof that the City and Mr. Vincent largely ignored the public's suggestions, concerns and questions. As a DRA certified supervisor, he is obligated to follow regulations and ethics guidelines for responding to the public. He did not do this. Seems as if the City did not want to process the applications.

Further, these court ordered emails prove that the assesshelp email address was corrupted for a week in February and it appears all records were lost. Mr. Vincent never shared this with the public. 

On January 17, 2021, two abatement applications were emailed to the City for processing. The emails between Kleiner and Vincent show they were never received. After no response in 5 days, I went to City Hall to get the time sensitive applications stamped. This ultimately led to my arrest. Mr. Vincent has never acknowledged the email or applications sent on January 17, 2021.

The City had no established abatement process, refused to place the applications online, refused to permit stamping at the door, failed to respond to the email applications and had an unreliable email service that was corrupted. Citizens of Nashua deserve better; Public servants must remember who they serve.