Johnson County supervisors accept FY2026 budget framework, ask staff to clarify state property tax notice

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday reviewed the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget and agreed to proceed with the current budget framework while directing staff to prepare an explanatory disclosure for the state property tax notice.

The board’s concern centered on a change in the state tax-notice form: county staff said the form assumes a 10% average increase in property assessments, which can inflate the apparent percentage change in a homeowner’s county tax share. County staff also told supervisors that about 2.4% of the increase shown on the notice reflects rollback changes and roughly 4.7% reflects the county’s levy change; the remainder shown on the state form comes from the assumed assessment increase.

Why it matters: the state form’s assumption could lead mailings to show a larger percentage change in the county portion of a taxpayer’s bill than actually results from county decisions. Several supervisors said they worried that the…