By a 5-0 vote Thursday evening, the Bulloch County Board of Education is proposing a property tax millage that represents a full rollback to offset annual inflation in assessed values. That does not mean the board is fully reversing last year’s roughly 2.5-mill increase in the school maintenance and operations millage. In 2024 the rate was 7.932 mills, and the 2025 rate hike made it 10.4 mills. (But at the time, that was announced as an almost 3-mill increase above what would have been last year’s rollback rate.) Now, by adopting in full the 2026 “rollback rate” of 10.125 mills calculated by the county Board of Tax Assessors’ staff, the Bulloch County Schools leadership expects to counteract the 2025-2026 overall, average inflation in property values in regard to school-funding portion of the tax. It will be a little more than a quarter-mill decrease, or 0.275 mill to be exact, in terms of the rate. With that 10.125-mill levy, the net property tax revenue for the schools is projected at a little over $42.6 million, up from almost $39.3 million last year. This was shown as an 8.55% “net tax increase” in the “current tax digest and five-year history” chart that school district Chief Financial Officer Alison Boatright showed the board and public during Thursday evening’s meeting. But that results mostly from real growth in the digest of tax values, such as from new construction and improvements to buildings, not the pure inflation to be offset by the rollback. “The…
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