York County Press Release
| 10/21/2025 YORK – The York County Commissioners, sitting as the York County Board of Equalization, officially adopted all the property tax levies for the political subdivisions in York County, during their regular meeting this past week. Commissioner Randy Obermier noted, “Sometimes the general public might be confused when we adopt these levies. We set them but we don’t determine the levies for the different subdivisions, we don’t do their budgets and we have nothing to do with that process on their end. The levies are presented to us and we officially adopt them. “That said, a couple of these subdivisions should thank the county clerk for calling them and asking for them to send these in because they hadn’t yet,” Obermier said. “If she hadn’t done that, they would have lost their taxing authority for the year and maybe that should happen sometimes because it’s not the county clerk’s job to tell them what their jobs are. Everyone has to play by the same set of rules.” He said two subdivisions were so late in sending in their levy information that they nearly missed the board of equalization’s scheduled action. “So thank you, Mary (County Clerk Melby), for doing that for them,” Obermier added. The following are the total levies set for this year: York County: .181437 York County Ag Society: .003012 York County Historical Society: .000733 Upper Big Blue NRD: .017861 Benedict: .336885 Bradshaw: .400503 Gresham: .364288 Henderson: .635106 Lushton: .041618 McCool: .166843 Thayer: .106321 Waco: .467837 York: .230000 Benedict Fire District: .016556 Bradshaw Fire District: .023178 Gresham Fire District: .028592 Henderson Fire District: .014582 McCool Fire District: .02783 Waco Fire District: .017824 York Fire District: .020285 Heartland School: .440743; bond .062836; bond .057597 McCool School: .641615 York School: .916922; bond, .10176 Thayer Cemetery: .002714 Vernon Cemetery: .001035 Waco Cemetery: .002411 All of the levies decreased this year, compared to last year, because of the increases in valuation throughout the county. However, the levy for the York County Historical Society last year was zero as no levies had been submitted for the past three years, that year included. The following are the tax levies set in October 2024: York County: .213943 York County Ag Society: .003617 York County Historical Society: .000 Upper Big Blue NRD: .019725 Benedict Village: .442301 Bradshaw Village: .449944 Gresham Village: .50000 City of Henderson: .809308 Lushton Village: .048246 McCool Village: .286348 Thayer Village: .12035 Waco Village: .546583 City of York: .285000 Benedict Fire District: .020273 Bradshaw Fire District: .27992 Gresham Fire District: .032762 Henderson Fire District: .016551 McCool Fire District: .03506 Waco Fire District: .018893 York Fire District: .024396 Heartland Community School District: (three levies, for general and bonds) .456544, .07376, .067609 McCool Junction School District: .769393 York School District: 1.115177 Plainfield Cemetery: .001714 Thayer Cemetery: .003169 Vernon Cemetery: .001237 Waco Cemetery: .002792 |
