MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Macon-Bibb County will hold an additional public hearing Wednesday, September 9 before commissioners vote on a proposed 9.575-mill property tax rate. The fourth hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. in Commission Chambers at City Hall, located at 700 Poplar Street. A county presentation lists the final adoption vote for 9:05 a.m. The county announced the additional hearing Tuesday after holding three previously advertised hearings August 28 and Tuesday. The original millage ordinance listed Tuesday as the adoption date. Mayor Lester Miller announced during the Tuesday morning hearing that another hearing and the adoption vote were being scheduled for next week He repeated that announcement during the pre-commission meeting before Tuesday night’s final previously scheduled hearing. The county is recommending that commissioners keep the millage rate at 9.575 mills, the same rate used last year. However, the proposed rate is 0.813 mills above the state-calculated rollback rate of 8.762 mills. Georgia law classifies that as a 9.28% property tax increase. The rollback rate is the rate designed to keep property tax revenue level as the tax digest grows. “The proposal is to keep that millage rate exactly the same,” Miller said during Tuesday night’s hearing. “That would not result in a 9% tax increase across the homeowners of Macon-Bibb County because one-half of our digest is commercial. In fact, if your home value last year was the same, then you’ll…
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