by KYW's Mike Dunn

One year after imposing a sweeping reassessment of most properties in Philadelphia, the Board of Revision of Taxes is taking it easy this year.

Last year the BRT handed out a whopping 413,000 reassessments. This year that number is far smaller -- just under 5,400 notices are going out this week and a few thousand more in the fall. 

BRT's spokesman Kevin Feeley:

"At the risk of painting it a little to broadly, these are sort of regular, routine types of evaluation notices that are going out.  And its a pretty small percentage."

So the BRT is in a bit of a holding pattern as it prepares to move to a new and controversial reassessment system called Actual Value Initiative. 

The agency is due to forward data to City Council and the mayor by years end on how that might change things.