Monday afternoon the Franklin County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on the county’s proposed property tax levy for fiscal year 2026.
Several members of the public were present and asked a variety of questions about the property tax system and on the proposed budgets.
Franklin County Auditor Katy Flint described what could happen if a property tax reform bill would be passed by the legislature.
“For the next four years after this fiscal year that we’re discussing right now, so starting with fiscal year ’27, the county will be maxed at a 2 % growth period for the next four years. We attempt to be incredibly judicious with our dollars. I think we all know that inflation is more than 2%. Jay, our secondary roads engineer, gravel, is up 6.6%. So we do what we can without trying to raise property taxes.”
Flint says Franklin County has an advantage over other counties in the state.
“We paid off our debt and that’s a really big thing for people like to understand is that the county literally has no debt, not a single penny. And in today’s world, that is very rare in a local government to not have any debt. And that’s something we pride ourselves on.”
The proposed property tax levy for Franklin County would be the same as in the current fiscal year of 10-dollars and 20-cents per 1-thousand dollars of assessed property value.
