A city resident with nearly 30 years in the field will start Monday as the new administrator of assessing, Mayor Will Flanagan said.
He’s hired Richard Gonsalves, who’s leaving his job since 2007 as Wareham’s assessor. He worked prior to that in a similar post in Seekonk for eight years.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., and is an accredited assessor.
His salary will be $80,292 before accepting a required 8 percent cut this budget year to bring his pay to $73,868 with four weeks of vacation.
“He’s taking a pay cut to come here and work in his home town,” Flanagan said. He said it was the same rate as prior Assessor Pamela Davis.
Flanagan fired Davis and Tax Collector Shannon Lyonnais on June 17. He cited complaints concerning assessments toward the assessor’s office and untimely filing of tax payments in the second office for [...]

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