The Warren County Commission voted Nov. 5 to join other Missouri counties in challenging a recent court decision upholding the constitutionality of Senate Bill 3, passed in 2025, which paved the way for residential property tax credits in many counties, including Warren.
“The judge voted in the state’s favor, so the last eight days, nine days since that was done, multiple counties are going to try to appeal it,” Warren County Presiding Commissioner Joe Gildehaus said last week.
Following the passage of SB-3 in June 2025, in September of last year several Missouri school districts, including Warren County R-III; Ozark Fire Protection District; and two individuals, Warrenton resident Virginia Schenk and St. Louis resident Alous Kirchhofer, sued the state, arguing that the approval of SB-3 was “arbitrary, unconstitutional, and impermissible.” Several county governments, including Warren, later joined the case as plaintiffs…