Last week in the first two of three required hearings, Statesboro’s mayor and council members heard no direct objections to a proposed increase of up to 1 mill in property taxes. The final hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, also at City Hall, and the council could vote to set the millage in the regular meeting that follows. If approved at a half mill as Mayor Jan Moore first suggested, the tax rise could fund a 7.72 percent raise in the starting salary for police officers, plus upward adjustments in pay for police through the rank of sergeant, City Manager Randy Wetmore said.