Officials from Kent and Sussex counties testified Oct. 7 at the second hearing on property reassessments that their initial property assessments were sent out to residents in the month of November before the bills were issued. They also testified that the cost of the next assessment is going up.
County Administrator Todd Lawson said Sussex signed a contract with Tyler Technologies in 2021 to assess 203,000 property parcels, which is more than Kent and New Castle counties.
“By November 2024, our tentative value mailers were sent,” he said. “Ours were mailed because that’s what the contract said.”…