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Johnson County commissioners direct staff to refine 2026 property tax relief options, ask for Dec. 4 agenda review
Summary
County staff reviewed the 2025 property tax relief pilot, presented analytics and a dashboard, and recommended options for 2026 including raising the appraised-value cap to $500,000 or changing income and age criteria; commissioners asked staff to return with funding scenarios and city-county collaboration plans on Dec. 4.
Johnson County officials on Monday reviewed the second year of a pilot property tax relief program and asked staff to return with refined options and funding scenarios for an agenda review on Dec. 4.
County staff presented results from the 2025 pilot and a new data dashboard created from the five-year American Community Survey PUMS. Tom Franzen of Treasury Taxation and Vehicles said the county paid about $184,000 in rebates in June 2025 and that an additional $93,318.43 from the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund raised the program fund; he reported the program's remaining balance at about $365,590.36.
Greg Baldwin, also of Treasury Taxation and Vehicles, described the dashboard as a tool that can filter applicants by income, property value and age and said it informed staff's recommendations for a 2026 pilot. Baldwin recommended asking the state to update its programs while, at the county level, increasing the average appraised-value limit from $384,600 to $500,000. Staff…
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