Ordinance No. 01-01-2025-0001 — An Ordinance of the Town of Hartly Approving the Revision of the Town of Hartly Property Tax Rate — full text

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## ORDINANCE # 01-01-2025-0001 ## ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF HARTLY APPROVING THE REVISION OF THE TOWN OF HARTLY PROPERTY TAX RATE WHEREAS, Delaware House Bill 62, of the 152nd General Assembly, signed by Governor John Carney on August 9, 2023, certified the re-assessment and the requirement to conduct a reassessment Statewide; WHEREAS, the Town of Hartly has and continues to utilize Kent County Levy Court's Property information and assessed value database to calculate the Town's Property Taxes for its residents; WHEREAS, the reassessment for Kent County Real Property was completed in June 2024, significantly affecting real property assessment values in Hartly; HEREAS, the Town of Hartly's current property tax rate of $0.75 per $100 of assessmen alue must be revised to account for the 2024 County assessments of the municipality's rea property values; and VERA, the Teta fs Harly y auth zed crant roses too all real estate an improvements located thereon... NOW THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED by the Town Commission of the Town of Hartly, a majority thereof concurring in council duly met, as follows, to wit: 1. The real property tax rate in the Town of Hartly shall be as follows: 2. This Property Tax revision shall become effective as of the Fiscal Year 2025, as reflected in the Town of Hartly 2025 Budget. 3. The Property Tax rate increase adopted herein shall result in an increase of 18.17% in tax revenue collected by the Town in the fiscal year of 2025. 4. The Kent County real property tax assessment list for real property situated in the Town of Hartly, as recently amended pursuant to the Kent County re-assessment process, is hereby adopted by the Town of Hartly in order to establish the assessment values for real property situated in the Town of Hartly to be used in the calculation and collection of the Town of Hartly property taxes. | Non-Residential (Commercial) Property Types | $0.15 per $100 of assessed property value | |-----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------| | Residential Property Types | $0.10 per $100 of assessed property | | Exempt Property Types | S0.0 per S100 of assessed property value | This will certify that this is a true and correct copy of the Ordinance duly adopted by the Town Commission the Town of Hartly its regular Commission meeting on April 10 , 2025.   ATTEST: Why: 4-10-2025 Mark A. Maguire, President mottle 4110/25 Commission Secretary