Democratic legislative leadership announced Wednesday the General Assembly would be forming “bipartisan Special Committees to investigate the recent statewide property reassessment” as part of a larger commitment to address recent property tax hikes and to mitigate future reassessment struggles.
The announcement comes just weeks after House Speaker Melissa Minor-Brown (D-New Castle) called a one-day special session to provide immediate relief to New Castle County residents — who have faced the brunt of tax hikes following the first-in-decades property reassessment — via seven pieces of legislation.
One of the pieces of legislation passed was a resolution calling on officials from the counties, municipal governments, school districts and others stakeholders to work collaboratively with the General Assembly on the development of legislative and operational measures to improve on the recent reassessment and prepare for future reassessments…