JAY – Selectmen are scheduled to review proposed bylaws for the Jay Fire Department and consider a tax abatement for a business Tuesday.

Prior to the regular selectmen’s meeting, a public hearing on the annual general assistance ordinance is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Middle School library.

Selectmen usually hold their meetings at the Community Building, but because the Planning Board is meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Community Building, selectmen moved their meeting.

The proposed amended bylaws for the Jay Fire and Rescue Department include the fire chief and a deputy chief elected on the first Monday of February.

The chief and deputy chief will then appoint all other officers at the first Monday of March meeting.

The bylaws cap membership in the department at 60, which includes member firefighters, Hotshots, who are junior members between ages 16 to 18, and probationary members belonging 12 months or less.

Bylaws also require officers to serve two-year terms and all prospective officers to submit an application 45 to 60 days in advance of the annual meeting as notification of their intention to seek an appointed office.

The document also takes in a hiring committee, duties of officers, personal conduct and discipline among other aspects.

In other business, selectmen are expected to hear from the town’s assessing agent to discuss a request for a tax abatement.

Selectmen tabled Judy Diaz’s request last month for a $6,791 tax abatement for her company, A & V Construction Corp.

Diaz requested that her personal property valuation be reduced from $554,900 to $125,080 to reflect a $1,976.26 tax assessment instead of $8,767.42.

Diaz had sold the equipment she was taxed on but did not file an updated list of equipment owned by the company last spring.

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