Millage rate will remain unchanged for 2018

The Lilburn City Council voted recently to approve the 2018 millage rate. The Code of Georgia requires the city council to set its millage rate annually for the upcoming year as it applies to real and personal property within the city’s corporate limits. At 4.43 mills, the 2018 millage will remain the same as the 2017 millage rate.

Despite holding the millage rate steady, property owners can anticipate a 5.33 percent increase in their taxes as a result of increased property values. To avoid this increase the city would have needed to “rollback” the millage rate to 4.206 mills.

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■ Gwinnett Bicentennial: Open

House for Elisha Winn House. Noon-4 p.m. Saturday. Elisha Winn House, 908 Dacula Road, Dacula. See where Gwinnett was born. This 1812 home, belonging to Elisha Winn, was where much of the planning for the new county began; and it served as Gwinnett’s first courthouse. Also, see the Bicentennial Torch. Gwinnett200.com