CRANSTON –– Residents will have until the end of the month to make quarterly property tax payments because the city was late in sending out bills, officials said yesterday.

City Treasurer and Tax Collector Donald Gray said the city normally sends out property, sewer and motor vehicle excise tax bills in late June for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

That gives residents plenty of time to make their first quarterly payment by a July 15 deadline.

But Gray said “miscommunication” with the company that sends out the bills for the city, Document Technologies, led to a delay.

Gray, who declined to detail the miscommunication, shouldered the blame for the problem.

“I was not as explicit as I probably should have been,” he said.

Gray said a problem with the perforation on the payment stubs also contributed to the delays.

City officials said property tax and sewer bills were mailed out last week and this week.

Motor vehicle excise bills should go out by Friday, they said.

Those who fail to make payments by July 31 will begin accruing interest.

Retiree Catherine Hoye, 83, said she got nervous last week when her tax bill had not yet arrived.

Hoye, who is moving to a beach house in Narragansett for the summer this weekend, feared that she would have trouble making the original July 15 deadline.

“I tried calling City Hall, but after 25 minutes, I gave up,” she said.

Hoye has since received her bill.

dscharfe@projo.com