Reassessment notices will be mailed out to Delaware County property owners July 1 but owners will have until Sept. 1 to appeal those assessments, reports Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times.

The new assessments take effect Jan. 1, 2021 and will be used to calculate individual property taxes starting in 2021.

The county undertook a court-ordered property reassessment starting in 2017.

The last assessment was 20 years ago and property values have changed.

That meant some were paying more or less taxes than they should because the current value of their property wasn’t reflected in the older assessments used to calculate property taxes.

Normally, property owners are given 40 days to file an appeal.

Joan Price, Assessment Board solicitor, sought an extension from the courts to give residents more time to appeal.

“We felt that that was necessary given certainly the COVID pandemic but also the civil disturbance. We simply don’t want the important reassessment notice that people are going to be receiving to get lost.

“We don’t want people to lose the important right to appeal and challenge that assessment, if they believe that that is warranted.”

Delaware County Common Pleas Court President Judge Kevin F. Kelly, granted the emergency extension.

Read more about the reassessment here. 

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