{"id":23774,"date":"2023-08-20T19:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T23:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=23774"},"modified":"2023-08-22T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:01:19","slug":"millage-notice-2023-property-tax-digest-5-year-history-of-levy-lcc-2023-08-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/millage-notice-2023-property-tax-digest-5-year-history-of-levy-lcc-2023-08-14.html","title":{"rendered":"Millage Notice: 2023 Property Tax Digest & 5 Year History of Levy @ LCC 2023-08-14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 2023-08-22<\/strong>:\r\nVideos: Millage Rate, 3 Alcohol, Animals @ LCC Work 2023-08-21<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nHere is the\r\nPublic Notice<\/a>\r\nLowndes County posted one week before the millage rate decision,\r\nwhich will happen\r\n\r\nthis Tuesday evening<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Digest<\/a>\r\n
Digest History 2023-08-14 and Agenda for LCC 2023-08-21<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\r\nThey are proposing 8.896 mills,\r\nincluding 1.00 mill for the Industrial Authority and 1.25 mills VLPRA.\r\nThe total is a reduction of 1.315 mills from 2022.\r\n

\r\nHow can the county afford a 13% reduction in the millage rate?\r\n\r\n\r\n

\r\nBecause the tax digest value went up by 18%.\r\n

\r\nHow did that happen?\r\n

\r\nThe Tax Assessors office has been catching up on evaluations,\r\nmany of which went up.\r\n

\r\nThe Lowndes County Commission will also separately set the Fire District Millage Rate for 2023. They propose 2.50 mills, which is the same as for last year.\r\n

\r\nAfter the new fire stations were built in the first year or two,\r\nit is not clear why the county fire department still needs twice as much property tax millage as Parks and Rec, and 2.5 times as much as the Industrial Authority.\r\n

\r\nIf you want to have your say, call or write your county commissioner\r\nbefore they decide at 5:30 PM this Tuesday, August 22, 2023.\r\nThere is no Public Hearing about millage on the agenda,\r\nso if you speak in the meeting it can only be in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard,\r\nafter they already made their decision.\r\n

\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/lowndescounty.com\/181\/Board-of-Commissioners<\/a>\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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