The Statesboro City Council will hold a special called public hearing today to discuss setting the 2011 ad valorem (property) tax millage rate for the city. The mayor and council will listen to public comment about keeping the property tax rate at 6.358 mills – the same rate it has been for the last three years. The council kept the rate the same in from 2007 to 2008 because the city’s tax digest grew that year by 5.7 percent as a result of new development, not increased property assessment.