Reporting problems delay Franklin County’s 2026 assessment notices and tax digest

Franklin County’s 2026 Notices of Assessment and tax digest will be delayed after continuing problems surfaced in the county’s Digest Consolidation and Inflationary Growth Report. Rick Cothran reported the problem to the Franklin County Board of Assessors during a special-called meeting May 29, and the meeting record does not set a new release date for either document.

The delay reaches beyond a routine administrative deadline. Assessment notices tell property owners the values assigned to their property for the tax process, while the tax digest is a central county record used in subsequent tax steps. Without a documented timetable, residents waiting to see their assessments and local governments planning around the annual tax process do not have a publicly recorded schedule for when those records will arrive.

At the May 29 special-called meeting, Cothran told assessors that problems with the consolidation and inflationary-growth report were continuing, linking those unresolved issues directly to the delay in the 2026 notices and digest. The board’s minutes record the operational consequence—the two records would be late—but do not describe a correction, release, or later resolution of the report problems.

For property owners, the immediate concern is when they will receive notice of the assessed values connected to their property-tax bills. County and local officials, meanwhile, depend on the digest as the process moves toward later tax decisions. The Board of Assessors did not record competing proposals or a dispute over the delay; its minutes attribute the cause to the continuing report issues described by Cothran.

What is confirmed is that, as of May 29, the report still had problems and the 2026 assessment notices and tax digest would be delayed. The board also approved its remaining 2026 meeting schedule through December and said it would ask Cothran to remain until a date to be determined in August. The minutes do not establish that the report was fixed, that either delayed record was released, or how the delay ultimately will affect tax bills or later tax actions.

The next public marker would be a later Board of Assessors record announcing that the report issues have been resolved, assigning a new release date, or taking further action on the delayed notices and digest. Until then, the timing of the 2026 assessment notices, the tax digest and the downstream tax schedule remains undecided in the documented public record.