Clay County commission denies request to waive penalties after taxpayer cites mail, bankruptcy issues

Brandy Page, a Clay County resident who asked the commission to waive penalties and interest related to a missed personal property reassessment, spoke at the board’s Feb. 20 meeting and asked for leniency after what she described as a year-and-a-half of missed communications with county staff. The commission voted 5-0 to deny the request.

Page told commissioners she moved into Clay County in October 2021, paid the first year’s charges and believed her accounts had transferred. She said she did not receive reassessment notices after a spring 2023 move and that her emails and phone messages to county staff went unanswered. “I never received any … correspondence for me to reassess my vehicle,” Page said. She said she finally completed required…