Fayette County adopts 2025 property tax millage rate; officials say impact on typical homeowner will be modest

Fayette County commissioners voted unanimously on Oct. 23 to adopt Resolution 2025-08, setting the 2025 property tax millage rate after a final public hearing. Chief Finance Officer Sheryl Weinmann presented the county’s calculations and said the 2025 digest totaled $10,508,349,912.

Weinmann told the Board the county saw a total positive change in the digest of $262,865,457 driven by growth and reassessments, and she reviewed sample tax-bill scenarios. Using one example for an unincorporated $500,000 home with a $200,000 taxable value and a floating homestead exemption, Weinmann said the General Fund maintenance and operations portion would increase by about $12.55, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) would increase roughly $90.96, and fire services would decrease about $45.48, producing a combined change near $58.03 for that example.

“Since 2014, if the millage rate had remained the same, the County would have collected another $121.9 million,” Weinmann said, noting that those sums represent either additional projects or taxpayer savings.

Commissioners asked routine clarifying questions about how the required public notice is calculated when a jurisdiction chooses not to roll back the millage rate; Weinmann explained that not rolling back captures both growth and reassessment dollars and that state advertising rules therefore require a notice of a tax increase. She also confirmed notices to residents would be mailed after the Board’s formal adoption and estimated a 60-day payment period upon receipt of the notice.

The Board approved Resolution 2025-08 to levy the 2025 property tax millage rate (motion by Vice Chairman Edward Gibbons; second by Commissioner Charles W. Oddo). The vote was 5-0.