Columbia County approved a full rollback of the millage rate for 2025 during the regular meeting on Tuesday.
County Manager School Johnson said the county is following the wishes of the commission with the millage rate.
“Assessments have gone out,” Johnson said. “We are establishing the millage rate. Typically, this would be the time of year we would have millage rate hearings, although we’re not required to have millage rate hearings if we rollback all the way to the rollback rate. It was the intent of the board when we did our budget this year to go to the rollback rate. You have stayed true to the promise of the taxpayers.”
The total millage rate is 4.814 mills.
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Johnson mentioned that the Columbia County Board of Education approved a rollback of their millage rate as well. They set the rate at 16.234 mills, which is the school district’s lowest millage rate in 35 years.
Public comments
During public comment, several citizens spoke about the library guidelines and asked the board of commissioners to rescind them.
