GREENFIELD — The town assessor will hold public information meetings on a recent reassessment that has some property owners complaining because their property was reassessed twice in two years.

Town Assessor John Bonanno said he wants to clear up any misunderstanding about his 2007 and 2008 property reassessments and show that the final results have saved most town taxpayers money.

“What I did this year was identify properties that were on the lower end of market value and bring their assessment in line with similar properties,” Bonanno said in a letter to residents.

“In addition, new construction was reviewed, valued and put on the assessment role,” Bonanno said.

The informational meetings will be held at 10 a.m. Oct. 11 and at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 in the town community center near the Town Hall at Route 9N and the Wilton Road.

Not everybody agrees with the town assessor.

Stan Weeks, a resident who lives on Ashlor Drive, said his property was reassessed in 2007 and also this year.

The first revaluation increased his home’s value at about the same rate as it increased the value of a neighbor’s home that, he says, is almost identical to his.

This year, Weeks said, his home was assessed again and given a value much higher than the nearly identical home nearby.

Weeks also maintains that Greenfield residents are paying more than their share of school taxes because of inequities in property values, especially the assessment of commercial properties, in the city of Saratoga Springs.

Saratoga Springs City School District officials say this is not the case.

Resident Philip Gargan says that only 12 percent of the property owners, including him, had their property reassessed this year. Gargan said this is not fair.

He said he could take the first big jump in his home’s value but the second revaluation added insult to injury.

Gargan said, in an open letter to the Greenfield Town Board, that only 540 of the town’s approximately 4,000 properties were revalued this year. Gargan claims that most of these properties were increased in value.

In his letter, Gargan urged the board to throw out the 2008 tax rolls and use the 2007 rolls. The board did not do this.

Both Weeks and Gargan grieved their new assessments this spring but did not receive the relief they desired.

They have also been vocal about their concerns about the reassessments at recent Town Board meetings. Both said they are seeking a small claims assessment review in the courts to get their property values reduced.

Bonanno said the number of parcels affected by this year’s reassessment was small compared to the townwide property revaluation in 2007.

But he said the revaluation this year added $29.6 million to the town’s total assessed value.

“This increase in taxable assessed value helped offset increases in both county and school budgets,” Bonanno says in his letter to residents.

Town Supervisor Richard Rowland said he and his fellow board members reviewed the residents’ complaints with Bonanno. He said they checked his methods and generally support the results of the 2008 assessment rolls.

Bonanno said no one likes to pay taxes. He said it’s his job to make sure each property owner only pays his or her fair share of the tax levy.

Bonanno said he is pleased that the state Office of Real Property Tax Services has granted Greenfield a state equalization rate of 100 percent, up from a lower percentage first projected.

He said adopting the new tax roll saved taxpayers money, especially when it came to Saratoga Springs City School District taxes for the 2008-09 school year.

He said the increase in property value in the town and the state granting the town a 100 percent equalization rate reduced the school tax rate more than eight percent from $11.98 per $1,000 of assessed valuation earlier projected to $10.98 per $1,000.