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Boone County Council debates hiring assessor staff as reassessment bids stall and tax deadlines loom
Summary
Council members and outside advisers debated whether to fund assessor employees or reopen bids for reassessment work after two vendor bids failed to produce a contract; a county taxpayer warned that missing deadlines could force the county to send estimated tax bills and cost millions in collections.
The Boone County Council spent the meeting's longest block of time weighing how to finish the assessor's 2026 real-property reassessment after two vendor options stalled.
Alex Burgin Schmidt, who introduced himself as a Boone County taxpayer representing the assessor, told the council that missing statutory assessment deadlines would force the county to issue provisional or estimated tax bills in 2027. "If we don't get the assessment work done this year, the county will be the only county in the state of Indiana not to send out tax bills on time next year," he said, warning that delayed or estimated bills depress collections and create mortgage-escrow problems for homeowners.
The split over next steps centered on two options: the assessor using the statutory authority to hire deputies and technical staff to perform the reassessment in-house, or reopening the…
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