Adelson and Company P.C. Name New Partner

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Adelson and Company P.C., an accounting firm formed in 1938, specializing in audit, tax, and advisory services, has announced that Sylvia Zygawski has been named a shareholder and partner.
 
Zygawski, a Certified Public Accountant, is licensed in both the states of Massachusetts and New York. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the State University of New York and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and both the Massachusetts and New York Society of
Certified Public Accountants.
 
Zygawski brings extensive audit experience across private companies, nonprofits, municipalities, private schools, and employee benefit plans. She has specialized training in auditing, compilations, and reviews, and is highly experienced in conducting compliance/single audits under Uniform Guidance and Massachusetts UFR requirements. 
 
She also leads internal training initiatives and supports quality control oversight within the firm.
 
Zygawski is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Pittsfield and serves on the board and finance committee of Community Health Programs (CHP). Originally from New York, she lives in Pittsfield with her husband, two sons and their mini aussie Nexi.  
 
Partners at Adelson and Company PC are now: Carol Leibinger-Healey, David Irwin, Anthony Wimperis and Sylvia Zygawski.  Gary Moynihan and Richard LaFleche,  former partners, are Senior Directors with the firm.  
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Pittsfield Council Sets FY26 Tax Rate

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The City Council has set the fiscal year 2026 tax rate: $17.50 per $1,000 of valuation for residential property and $36.90 for commercial, industrial, and personal property. 

While the rates are 54 cents and more than a dollar less, respectively, than fiscal year 2025, bills will rise with property values. 

The average single home, valued at about $315,000, will increase by $220 per year, and the average commercial property $325 annually. This rate uses a residential factor of 0.8299 at a shift of 1.75 toward the commercial/industrial side. 

"We are at the highest we can. We cannot give residents any bigger break than we've been able to because we're at the highest, 1.75. We started last year at 1.75 and this year, so the last two years, we're at the highest," Ward 1 Councilor Kenneth Warren said. 

"There's nowhere to go. We can go down, but that would increase the tax bills for the residential." 

He said many focus on the tax rate, but they should really be looking at the city's levy and the valuation of their own home, explaining, "Even if the rate was cut in half, but your valuation went two times, we still have to raise the same amount of money." 

The FY26 levy limit of $119.5 million includes more than $2 million in tax revenue from new growth, and there is about $389,000 in excess level capacity. Pittsfield's real and personal property valuation is $5,650,879,534, more than $380 million higher than the previous year. 

The value of the average single-family home has increased by more than $20,000 from $295,291 last fiscal year to $315,335 in FY26, and with the proposed tax rate, will be assessed $5,518.36 in taxes per year. This represents a $220.84 increase.

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