Discussion scheduled Aug. 7 on millage rate

The mayor and city council for the City of Chattahoochee Hills recently announced its intention to set the millage rate at 10.00 mills, according to a press release. That’s the same rate as 2017 when the millage rate was rolled back from 10.958. A discussion has been set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 in the Council Chambers, 6505 Rico Road, Chattahoochee Hills.

Each year, the board of tax assessors for Futon County is required to review the assessed value for property tax purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific prop- erty, the board of tax assessors is required by law to redetermine the value of such property and adjust the assessment. This is called a reassessment.

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced if no reassessments occurred.

The tentative increase will result in a millage rate of 10.00 mills, an increase of 1.81 mills. The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $125,000 is approximately $63 and the proposed tax increase for a non-homesteaded property with a fair market value of $300,000 is approximately $217.

Georgia law requires three pub- lic hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase. Additional meetings are set for 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. July 26 at the same location.