Gov. Matt Meyer allowed a bill to become law without his signature, which indefinitely extends a split property tax rate that New Castle County school districts can apply to commercial and residential property.
Meyer’s office said, “he can’t endorse legislation that treats apartments and other residential rental communities as commercial property.”
The new law is sponsored by State Rep. Kim Williams (D-Stanton). It’s one of multiple measures that she and other lawmakers introduced this session, as New Castle County continues to make corrections to inequitably assessed properties from its first-in-decades process completed in 2024…