Select Board adopts single tax rate for fiscal 2027

Select Board · Meeting of November 4, 2026

Hadley's Select Board voted to keep a single tax rate for fiscal 2027 after a classification hearing. Presenters estimated the rate at $12.21 per $1,000 and the average single-family bill at $6,235, on a $17,962,180 levy. A split rate at the minimum residential factor would have cut residential taxes 21.8 percent and raised commercial taxes 50 percent.

The board also rejected an open space discount, a residential exemption and a small commercial exemption, and one commenter urged members not to "play with that recipe." Four members voted, with David J. Fill, II absent. The board also appointed Diane Wright as public safety dispatcher and Jessica Amundsen as assistant treasurer and collector.

In the full story:

• HADLEY — November 4, 2026 —
• Opening and liquor license
• Appointments, consent agenda and announcements
• Senator Joe Comerford
• Town-owned land inventory
• Fiscal 2027 tax classification hearing
• Town administrator's report
• Executive session
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 1,777 words

Source: the Select Board meeting of November 4, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.