Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan announced Friday that she has moved back the deadline for first-half real estate tax payments due to warnings of potential violence around the Statehouse next week.
The new deadline is Jan. 29, nine days after the originally scheduled due date of Jan. 20. Sullivan said property owners are not required to go to the county treasurer’s office Downtown to make their payments.
“I cannot in good conscience ask anyone to come Downtown next week, and I could not in good conscience impose the late fee that would have been required by law for anyone who chose not to,” Sullivan said in a prepared statement.