Lansford has received a show of support from a neighboring municipality to draft a resolution opposing a countywide reassessment.

Bowmanstown Borough Council unanimously agreed to send a letter to Carbon County Commissioners in opposition to the county doing the reassessment.

The last reassessment in the county is believed to have been about 20 years ago.

School districts and municipalities, though more-so school districts benefit the most from reassessment, but the county would have to pay the bill, Commissioner Chairman Wayne Nothstein said last month.

The county could be expected to shell out $3.27 million for a reassessment, based on roughly 48,140 parcels in the county at $68 a parcel, Nothstein said.

There is also a disagreement on the numbers in each school district, he said.

In addition, the county would need to upgrade the current computer system as part of the process, something Nothstein anticipates will be expensive, though he didn’t have firm numbers.

Additionally, he said there is also the cost to transfer all the data into the new system.

Nothstein added the reassessment process takes about 30 months to complete, and taxes can only increase by a certain percentage.

In Carbon, Lehighton Area School Board has led the push for a countywide reassessment after it put its own post-sale assessment policy on the back burner, and the board hopes other district will join with them.

Commissioner Chris Lukasevich said last month there are 29 taxing authorities in the county, and they need a consensus in order to move forward, as well as to share the burden associated with reassessment.