York County board accepts assessor recommendations, withdraws nine tax protests

The York County Board voted to accept the assessor’s recommendations on a set of property protests arising from the 2020 assessment process and to 'confess judgment,' effectively withdrawing those appeals.

The motion covered nine protest entries listed by staff as numbers 46, 47, 48, 49, 60, 63, 77, 89 and 133. After debate about whether to pursue appeals 'to Turk' or accept the assessor’s updated values, a majority approved accepting the assessor’s recommendations and removing the county’s appeal pathway for those parcels.

The board took a roll-call vote; the clerk recorded votes as follows: Over — yes; Burgess — yes; Omen — no; Robertson — yes; Gro(s) — yes. The motion carried.

Board members framed the vote as a choice between continuing the appeals process with the state (referred to in the meeting as 'Turk') or agreeing to the assessor's values to avoid further litigation and administrative steps. Staff identified the specific protest numbers above and said that accepting the assessor’s values would eliminate the need to pursue those claims further.

The board moved on after the vote to set the schedule and procedures for the 2026 protest hearings. No additional formal motions about the same parcels were recorded in the meeting.

The board will include these decisions in formal minutes; members did not provide additional documentation explaining the assessor’s individual value recommendations during the public portion of this item.