In the past our local voters would shoot down just about every bond issue that would come up. In the last few years everything has changed they tend to support about every bond issue. The change is that the senior citizen's property taxes are frozen, so a rise in taxes does NOT affect them and they are the ones who in the past rejected the bond issues.
I'd love to see that freeze on senior's property taxes.
Heck, I'd love for the property tax to be eliminated completely. That way you own your property, you don't rent it from the Government (how feudal!)
But if there is to be a property tax at all, then let a house (or undeveloped land) be taxed based on the last price for which it sold. (fair market value at the time of sale), and that price could be adjusted for inflation, but not for the real estate market. I think that might help stabilize neighborhoods, too, where the folks who bought that house in 1947 and paid $5,000.00 for it (and still live there) aren't being taxed based on someone's current price of 350K for the same dwelling, so long as they own it and live there. When it sells next, it can be revalued, and taxed at that higher sale price (or lower, as the case may be). Adjusted for inflation, the owners of that $5,000.00 property bought in 1947 would be paying taxes on a property valued at $58,426.28 in 2019 dollars.