The Richmond County School Board announced Thursday its intention to increase the 2022 property taxes it will levy this year by 4.93% over the rollback millage rate.
“When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires 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 had no reassessments occurred,” according to a news release from Lynthia Ross.
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The budget adopted by the Richmond County School Board requires a millage rate higher than the rollback millage rate, the release continues.
However, before the Richmond County School Board sets a final millage rate, three public hearings will be held to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase, per state law.
Public hearings will be held at noon and at 6 p.m. Aug. 9 and at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Board of Education building, 864 Broad St.
