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Albany County officials tell Revenue Committee University landholds cost Laramie millions in lost property tax
Summary
Albany County Assessor Chelsea Matthews and a Laramie resident told the Revenue Committee that University of Wyoming and state land ownership removes millions of dollars in local property tax revenue each year, stressing lost fire/EMS support and storm‑sewer impacts and urging state and university engagement.
Albany County officials and residents told the Wyoming Legislature’s Revenue Committee that extensive state and university land ownership in and around Laramie leaves the city and county footing bills for services without receiving corresponding property tax revenue.
“Laramie doesn’t get any property tax from the university or the state land,” Chelsea Matthews, Albany County assessor, told the committee. Matthews testified the county contains roughly 2.6 million acres, of which about 16,140 acres belong to the University of Wyoming and roughly 211,000 acres are state land currently treated as tax‑exempt — figures she said translate into millions of dollars in annual revenue the city doesn’t receive.
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