Whitfield County does not plan to raise its property tax rate for 2010. However, 2011 could be a different story, said Mike Babb, chairman of the board of commissioners.
“Right now, I believe it’s going to be frozen where it is,” Babb said Tuesday. “We’re running a deficit (of about $6 million). As long as we have money to fund the deficit we’re not going to raise the millage rate. Next year we’ll have to look at some things that need to be done, which is probably going to be a combination of looking at revenues and looking at expenditures. Right now, that’s the only way you can keep it in line.”
The county’s 2009 millage rate was 5.061. The millage rate is the amount of tax paid per $1,000 of assessed property value. The county’s 2010 budget includes expenditures of $46.73 million and revenues of $40.24 million.
The Dalton Board of Education is expected to raise its tax rate from 7.845 mills to 8.134 mills on Monday. Officials have said that increase would bring in an extra $1 million for the school system, and it translates to about $30 extra in taxes for a Dalton homeowner with a property value of a little more than $100,000. The Whitfield Board of Education does not plan a property tax increase. The Dalton City Council lowered its property tax rate on Tuesday to 2.875 mills from 2.974 mills.
County commissioners are expected to set the property tax rate before Oct. 1, Babb said.
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September 8, 2010
County expects to keep property tax rate the same
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Chemical release at MFG Chemical
Callahan Road is closed to the public at Abutment Monday morning following a chemical explosion at MFG Chemical Monday morning. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)
A “chemical explosion” at MFG Chemical on Callahan Road in Dalton this morning has resulted in “no reports of serious injuries at this time,” but 24 employees from a nearby Beaulieu building have been are being decontaminated near the site, according to Dalton Police Department Spokesman Bruce Frazier.
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