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Clay County approves ordinance extending senior property tax credit to include bond levies
Summary
After public testimony and fiscal projections from the county auditor, the Clay County Commission voted 6–0 to amend the senior property tax credit so it applies to bonded debt levies; the auditor projected annual credit growth and long‑term revenue effects and commissioners debated tradeoffs for schools, fire districts and other taxing jurisdictions.
The Clay County Commission on Jan. 8 adopted an amendment to the county's senior real estate tax credit that makes bonded debt levies eligible for the senior credit, voting 6–0 to approve 2025 Ordinance 27.
The change removes a sentence in the county code that had excluded bonded-debt levies from the senior credit. "That has been deleted, and, of course, the result of that would be that those bonded debt obligations would be subject to the senior tax credit," County Attorney Kevin Graham explained during the hearing.
Auditor Victor Hurlburt presented the commission with the fiscal outlook for including bond debt in the credit. Hurlburt said the county's one-year fiscal impact of the program had been approximately $3.2 million but "when we include that that…
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