The Bartow County Board of Education today announces its intention to increase the 2023
property taxes it will levy this year by 15.40 percentage over the rollback millage rate.
The Bartow County Board of Education has proposed to maintain the current millage rate of
17.43 for 2023. State law requires this to be advertised as a tax increase since the state
measures change not against the actual prior-year millage rate, but rather against the “rollback
rate.” The rollback rate is calculated by subtracting any increase in the digest due to
reassessment.
When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires that a rollback
millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s
digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.
Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to allow the public an opportunity to
express their opinions on the increase.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on the millage rate to be held at the
Central Office, 65 Gilreath Road, Cartersville, GA on July 31, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. Additional public
hearings on this tax increase will be at the Central Office, 65 Gilreath Road, Cartersville, GA on
August 14, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. In order to speak at the public hearing regarding
the millage rate you must sign up to speak no later than 15 minutes prior to the meeting’s set
start time.
The Bartow County Board of Education is scheduled to adopt the 2023 millage rate on August
14, 2023, following the public hearing
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