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Clark County PBA urges board to set lower school tax rate to help fixed‑income homeowners
Summary
At the July regular meeting, Jada Brady, identifying herself as Clark County PBA, urged the school board to set a tax rate between the compensating rate and a 4% increase to reduce burdens on elderly and fixed‑income homeowners. She described outreach efforts and asked for joint meetings between the school board and county taxing entities.
Jada Brady, identifying herself as Clark County PBA, told the Clark County Board of Education during public comment at the board’s July regular meeting that many homeowners — particularly those on fixed incomes and over age 75 — were confused and financially strained by recent assessment notices and rising tax bills.
Brady said the county sent assessment notices on April 25 and that her office offers extended hours and meetings for residents to discuss assessments; she said she gives “at least 3 full weeks, including 2 Saturdays” to discuss assessments and that she held a community meeting at the Clark County Library on March 20 and spoke at Broadway Baptist Church.
The comment matters because local property‑tax calculations determine how much revenue the school system collects and because board decisions on the school tax rate affect many households, Brady said. She asked the board to set a tax rate that balances the district’s budget needs with community capacity to pay.
Brady explained the mechanics she said underlie the school tax calculation: the compensating rate (which she described as preserving the prior year’s revenue), adjustments for exonerations and refunds, a weighted average that includes real estate and personal taxes, and then the option to apply a 4% increase above the compensating rate. She told the board that, in her calculation, the county’s compensating rate would be “around 63%” and that a 4% increase would put the rate near “65.5%,” and she asked the board to pick a rate between those two figures that “will satisfy the budget and truly help deserving citizens of Clark County.”
Brady also told the board that the state is covering the transportation budget this year and that the statewide CSEP formula change will increase state funding — details she said could create room to lower the local rate. She said the additional funding from new property between 2020 and 2024 totaled about $9.7 million, and that many callers this season were confused first‑time recipients of assessment notices.
Brady concluded by asking for a meeting with the board — individually or in a group — to discuss property taxes and the joint nature of the final bill residents receive.
No formal board action was taken in response to the public comment during the meeting.
