{"id":21280,"date":"2019-09-02T18:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T22:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2019-09-02T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T22:55:18","slug":"lowering-the-millage-rate-lcc-millage-2019-08-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/lowering-the-millage-rate-lcc-millage-2019-08-27.html","title":{"rendered":"Lowering the Millage Rate @ LCC Millage 2019-08-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFinance Director Stephanie Black said due to the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dor.georgia.gov\/property-taxpayers-bill-rights#rollback\"><br \/>\nProperty Taxpayer&#8217;s Bill of Rights<\/a>,<br \/>\nif the tax digest (total assessed property value in the county)<br \/>\ngoes up, the county has to reduce the millage (tax per $1,000 of property value),<br \/>\nor announce the difference as a tax increase and hold three public hearings,<br \/>\nso they&#8217;re rolling back the millage rate slightly: 0.126 mills,<br \/>\ndown from 11.064 for 2018 to 10.938 for 2019.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dor.georgia.gov\/property-taxpayers-bill-rights\"><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s Georgia Senate Bill 177, Act 431, signed April 30, 1999, effective January 1, 2000<\/a>.<br \/>\nHere is the millage resolution they adopted half an hour later,<br \/>\nin the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2019-08-26--lcc-packet\/\"><br \/>\nboard packet<\/a>, which LAKE only received after this millage meeting and after the Commission voted on this millage change:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\n<a title=\"A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE 2019 AD VALOREM TAX MILLAGES FOR LOWNDES COUNTY\" name=\"X6b-Adoption-of-the-Millage-Rate:A-RESOLUTION-ESTABLISHING-THE-2019-AD-VALOREM-TAX-MILLAGES-FOR-LOWNDES-COUNTY\" href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2019-08-26--lcc-packet\/August-26--27-Meeting-Packet-0015.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  width=\"600\" height=\"776\"  border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2019-08-26--lcc-packet\/August-26--27-Meeting-Packet-0015.jpg\"  alt=\"[A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE 2019 AD VALOREM TAX MILLAGES FOR LOWNDES COUNTY]\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/loco\/2019-08-26--lcc-packet\/#X6b-Adoption-of-the-Millage-Rate:A-RESOLUTION-ESTABLISHING-THE-2019-AD-VALOREM-TAX-MILLAGES-FOR-LOWNDES-COUNTY\">A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE 2019 AD VALOREM TAX MILLAGES FOR LOWNDES COUNTY<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nShe showed some quite informative slides, which for unknown reasons do not<br \/>\nseem to be on<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lowndescounty.com\/137\/Finance\"><br \/>\nthe Finance Department&#8217;s web page<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor example, she had a nice summary slide of the five chunks of sales tax these days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n4 cents to the State of Georgia,<\/p>\n<li>\n1 cent to Local Option Sales Tax (LOST),<br \/>\nsplit between county and its cities for property tax reduction,<\/p>\n<li>\n1 cent to Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), split between county and its cities for capital improvements,<\/p>\n<li>\n1 cent to Educational Special Local Option Sales Tax (E-SPLOST),<br \/>\nsplit between the county and city school systems for capital improvements<\/p>\n<li>\n1 cent to Transportation Special Local Option Sales Tax (T-SPLOST),<br \/>\nregionally approved, and split between the county and its cities for transportation capital improvements.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nBilled on the lowndescounty.com calendar as<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lowndescounty.com\/Calendar.aspx?EID=366&#038;month=8&#038;year=2019&#038;day=2&#038;calType=0\"><br \/>\nMillage Meeting<\/a>,<br \/>\n5PM, Tuesday, 27 August 2019, in Commission Chambers before the voting Regular Session,<br \/>\nas usual almost nobody attended, and nobody from the public spoke.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut you can see the whole eight-minute meeting for yourself.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiERlmJz2eeUdfWY1AeinPAR&#038;disable_polymer=true\"><br \/>\na LAKE video playlist:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLshUv86fYkiERlmJz2eeUdfWY1AeinPAR&#038;disable_polymer=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLowering the Millage Rate<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMillage Meeting, Lowndes County Commission (LCC Millage),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, August 27, 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-style:italic\">Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/donate\">donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Director Stephanie Black said due to the Property Taxpayer&#8217;s Bill of Rights, if the tax digest (total assessed property value in the county) goes up, the county has to reduce the millage (tax per $1,000 of property value), or announce the difference as a tax increase and hold three public hearings, so they&#8217;re rolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,88,3],"tags":[10610,10857,10460,8704,8701,8699,10,8702,7764,12,7,8734,1247,10458,1146,60,8700,6],"class_list":["post-21280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-government","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","tag-10610","tag-2019-08-27","tag-august-27","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lcc-millage","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-millage","tag-millage-meeting","tag-property-tax","tag-tax","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21289,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}