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Orange County board agrees to advertise tax rates; motion to eliminate aircraft tax fails
Summary
At a county work session the board agreed by consensus to advertise proposed tax rates for public hearings. A separate motion to cut the county's aircraft tax from $0.50 per $100 of assessed value to zero failed for lack of a second.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday agreed by consensus to authorize staff to advertise the county's proposed tax rates ahead of the scheduled public hearings, and an attempt to eliminate the aircraft tax failed for lack of a second.
Advertising is a required step that sets the maximum tax rates the board may adopt at the public hearing; board members and staff emphasized the board can lower rates later but cannot adopt a rate higher than what is advertised. County staff said the real-estate rate was already published in the reassessment advertisement and that the other personal-property rates (vehicles, boats, aircraft, farm machinery, and machinery and tools) must be established and advertised before the hearing.
County staff attached a list of the rates included in the proposed budget to the work-session agenda. During the discussion one board member proposed cutting the aircraft tax from fifty cents per $100 of assessed value to zero; the motion received no second and therefore did not advance. The board then indicated by consensus that staff should proceed to advertise the rates as presented for the public hearing.
Glenda Buck, county staff, clarified that the previously advertised real estate rate included two components: "we advertised 51¢ and 17¢," and that advertising establishes the ceiling for what the board may later adopt. County staff also confirmed advertising is for public notice and that the board retains the option to reduce rates when they adopt the final budget.
The board scheduled two public opportunities mentioned during the session: a public hearing on the tax rates and reassessment and a separate public hearing on the budget. Specific dates were discussed during the session; staff cited May 6 for the tax-rate/reassessment hearing and May 22 for the budget public hearing and noted the board would adopt the final budget later in the month.
The session closed the tax-rate discussion and moved on to a longer conversation about the proposed FY26 budget and the county's capital improvements plan.
