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Mayor reports County Mayor Association will press legislature to revisit 2006 decision on county taxing authority
Summary
Mayor Chris Guess told the Legislative Committee that the County Mayor Association plans to ask the legislature to appeal a 2006 decision so counties could either add impact fees to their tax schedules or gain authority to raise local sales tax, putting counties on par with municipalities.
At the Oct. 5, 2023 Franklin County Legislative Committee meeting, Mayor Chris Guess reported that the County Mayor Association plans to ask the state legislature to 'appeal' a decision made in 2006. According to Guess, the association will ask the legislature either to allow counties to add impact fees to their tax schedules or to permit counties to raise sales tax, giving counties the same authority currently available to municipalities.
The mayor presented this as an update; the transcript records this as informational and does not show the committee taking formal action or voting on the matter. No specific statute, court case, bill number, or further legal citation was provided in the meeting record.
Committee members did not record a formal response in the minutes beyond noting the mayor’s report. The transcript does not include statements from legislative counsel or legal staff explaining the scope, mechanics, or expected timeline of a legislative appeal or the potential fiscal impacts if county taxing authority were expanded.
If the County Mayor Association pursues this change, it would shift the balance of local fiscal authority; however, the meeting transcript records only the mayor’s report and not any county-level decision to endorse or join the association’s effort.
