Overview
- More than 88% of voters backed making the county assessor an elected post, with the first election scheduled for November 2028.
- Interim County Executive Phil LeVota set a 1 p.m. news conference to detail property tax relief, including a plan to cap commercial assessment increases at 15% for properties under $5 million and to correct prior over-threshold hikes without requiring applications.
- Missouri House Speaker Jonathan Patterson confirmed a statewide constitutional amendment on electing assessors in charter counties will appear on the November 2026 ballot.
- The vote follows years of backlash to assessment practices, including blanket near-15% hikes in 2019 and average increases of about 30% in 2023, which drove record appeals and the September recall of County Executive Frank White Jr.
- Former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sued Jackson County and contractor Tyler Technologies in 2023 over alleged illegal actions tied to the sharp assessment increases.