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School board offers partial millage rollback, announces ‘tax increase’
Property tax decision complicated by sales tax offset, state equalization
Superintendent Charles Wilson, second from left, tells Bulloch County Board of Education members Thursday that a rollback of the school property tax millage rate sufficient to avoid tax increase hearings is impossible without giving up more than $5 milli
Superintendent Charles Wilson, second from left, tells Bulloch County Board of Education members Thursday that a rollback of the school property tax millage rate sufficient to avoid tax increase hearings is impossible without giving up more than $5 million in state equalization funding. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Presented with a dilemma in which returning about $1.1 million to local property taxpayers would result in the loss of more than $5 million state funding to the schools, the Bulloch County Board of Education on Thursday tentatively adopted only a partial millage rate rollback.
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