Unified Government meeting earlier than planned to decide on property tax freeze
Wyandotte County commissioners rescheduled for a second time when they will decide where to cap property taxes in the next budget year.
Commissioners will vote whether to freeze or increase the amount taxpayers give the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, during a 5 p.m. meeting on Wednesday. The special meeting will also be held in a smaller room than where typical full commission meetings are held, according to the Unified Government.
That room is located on the municipal building’s fifth floor at 701. N 7th Street in KCK. The commission will not hold a public comment portion on the item, given they did so during the initial meeting last week, during which the decision was initially scheduled to happen.
Commissioners, after a nearly six hour meeting that included lively public comment and lengthy board discussion, postponed making the decision — which they say will affect both area services and bills — until Thursday, July 17.
Then in a Tuesday afternoon social media post, the Unified Government said that the meeting was moved up a day.
The decision comes a year after the board voted not to increase additional tax revenues in response to residents’ pleas for relief from rising property tax bills, something people are seeing across the Kansas City metro and elsewhere.
