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Logan County fiscal court adopts 4% revenue-option steps for some 2025 tax rates, schedules public hearing
Summary
After reviewing rising property assessments, the Logan County Fiscal Court voted to adopt the 4% revenue-option for real property and set adjusted rates for personal property and motor-vehicle categories; the court scheduled a public hearing on the choice and clarified Department of Local Government limits for personal property.
Logan County Fiscal Court on a majority vote moved to adopt the 4% revenue-option treatment for certain 2025 ad valorem tax categories and scheduled a public hearing to meet statutory notice requirements.
Court staff presented the county ssessment roll and worksheets showing assessments had risen significantly for 2025. The judge and several magistrates emphasized that because the assessed value base increased, the county could either take a compensating rate (designed to produce the same revenue as last year) or adopt the 4% revenue-option to collect modest additional revenue while still lowering the nominal tax rate compared with 2024. County staff said the 4% option would yield roughly $74,000 of additional real-property revenue in the year shown on the worksheets.
After extended discussion about the effect on taxpayers and future flexibility, the court voted to adopt the 4% revenue-option for real property and scheduled the required public hearing for September. The court also set personal-property, motor-vehicle/watercraft, and aircraft rates based on the DLG worksheets and guidance presented in the meeting. The court explained it consulted the Kentucky Department of Local Government (DLG) to confirm the maximum allowable selections for personal property; staff reported DLG guidance limited personal-property choices such that the 4% option was the available, non-recallable maximum in this circumstance.
The court recorded roll-call votes on the principal motions. For the motion to adopt the 4% real-property revenue option, the roll call recorded votes roughly as follows: Davenport, Goodwin, Wilcutt, Harper, Bolden and Baker voted yes; Crawford voted no. For the personal-property rate motion the court approved the rate change on a roll call.
The judge said the revenue difference between options was modest in dollar terms and that the court balanced additional revenue against public perceptions and procedural requirements. The public hearing on the real-property 4% revenue-option will be advertised and held in September; the court said further questions about the worksheets and DLG calculations would be addressed at that hearing.
Next steps: the county will advertise the hearing as required by law, publish the final rate resolutions after the hearing, and transmit required forms to the Department of Local Government per statutory deadlines.
