Monday, July 23, 2012
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Rockdale Citizen
CONYERS -- The Rockdale County Board of Education still hasn't approved a millage rate, as it was scheduled to do this month.
Originally, the school board had planned to approve a millage rate at its July meeting, which was held Thursday, according to a budget calendar set for the year.
However, the vote was delayed because officials at Rockdale County Public Schools are waiting on the final tax digest figures from Rockdale County Tax Commissioner Dan Ray, according to Lee Davis, chief financial officer at RCPS.
"I am not certain when we will adopt," Davis said Friday.
Once he receives the figures, RCPS then will have to advertise the millage rate and the date it will be adopted at a meeting before the rate will be approved.
Unlike the budget, which was required by law to be adopted by June 30, there is no deadline for the millage rate adoption, Davis said.
The current millage rate is 24.5 mills.
A proposed millage rate for this year hasn't yet been presented to the board.
More like this story
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- School board to vote on millage next week ( August 13, 2012 )
- Rockdale school millage rate to remain the same ( August 25, 2012 )
- School board passes tentative $131M budget ( May 30, 2009 )
Comments
ctownslimm 10 months ago
Please dont raise it. I am already paying the most I have ever paid. And it just makes it worse to be paying so much and have everyone I know scared to send their kids to our schools.
Freedom1 10 months ago
What this seems to be saying is that if the tax digest comes back lower than projected, they will raise the millage again. While last year the increase was discussed and a specific increase was proposed prior to the digest release, this year they are playing it cagey....couldn't have anything to do with the election next Tuesday. If the public allows yet another increase, you can expect to see it at 30 mils in 3 years. The expectation is for the taxpayer to make up the loss, not only of property tax revenue by a continued decline in local property values, but the hole left by the $2.2 billion in Stimulus funds for education accepted by GA Dept of Ed in 2009 that have now dried up. "Austerity" cuts, or delayed reality, with budget dollars artifically inflated due a one-time infusion of cash with which teachers were hired, programs started and grown, and now there's no money to continue, unless you, the taxpayers are willing to make up the difference. The percentage of the State budget for Education has remained pretty steady at 54% to about 56% with a one year spike of 58%. The dollars are less because, well, there's not so much money in the budget to begin with anymore. Some Board members are cheering on the grant race, which all have expiration dates and caps, and for which you will again be asked to make up when they are gone, not to mention strings and loss of control over your own schools. What are we getting for our money? Teachers at the lowest morale in memory, students afraid to go to school, and very, very good results on standardized tests in K-8, that doesn't appear to translate into success in high school. Think before you vote.....
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