The Kent County Board of Commissioners approved the 2025 apportionment report, which compiles millage rates and spreads them across local taxing jurisdictions, county staff said.

Megan Van Hoose, director of the Bureau of Equalization, told commissioners the apportionment report lists all millage rates for taxing authorities — schools, townships, cities, libraries and others — and shows taxable values and how those millages will be spread. She described the report as the second statutory duty tied to the equalization process: first is the May equalization that establishes assessed and taxable values; second is the apportionment that distributes millages.

Van Hoose said the bureau prepares form L-4029 (the local-millage form described in the packet), sends it to local units, and after local approval the forms are returned for inclusion in the county report. The board moved to approve the apportionment report (motion by Commissioner Steck, supported by Vice Chair McLeod); a roll-call-style affirmation was recorded in the transcript as "aye" and the motion passed on the record.

The apportionment report matters because it determines how millage levies are allocated to taxable valuations across Kent County, which in turn affects the tax bills of local property owners and the revenue streams for local taxing authorities.

With the board's approval, the county will apply the millage spreads to taxable values as prepared by the Bureau of Equalization. No substantive questions were recorded beyond the director’s explanation of the process.