City of Sylvester Announcing A Proposed Property Tax Increase

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September 17, 2024

CITY OF SYLVESTER ANNOUNCING A PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX INCREASE

Sylvester, GA – The City of Sylvester Mayor and Council as today announces its intention
to increase the 2024 property taxes it will levy this year by 7.90 percent over the rollback millage
rate.

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires a rollback millage
rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s diest that
last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.

The budget tentatively adopted by the City of Sylvester Mayor and Council requires a millage
rate higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the City of Sylvester Mayor and Council
may finalize the tentative budget and set a final millage rate, 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 hearing on this tax increase to be held in Council
Chambers, located at Sylvester City Hall, 101 N. Main Street, Sylvester, Georgia on September 25,
2024 at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. A third public hearing on this tax increase will be held in Council
Chambers, located at Sylvester City Hall, 101 N. Main Street, Sylvester, Georgia on October 2,
2024 at 10:00 a.m.


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