MillageRate.com

The Rockmart Journal reports (story) that the Aragon City Council (Polk County) has adopted a millage rate of 12.00, up one mill from the nice, round 11.000 it adopted in 2004. Prior to 2004, Aragon adopted the same 9.700 for three years straight, a near-mathematical impossibility.

According to MillageRate.com founder Bob Griggs, he is “virtually certain” that the rate adopted this year is mathematically incorrect, as have been the rates for at least the past five years.

“The Aragon City Council has an apparent history of adopting mathematically incorrect rates,” said Griggs. “The fact that the Council raised the millage this year by one mill to an even 12.00 is proof, in our experience, that it is incorrect.”

According to Griggs, the City Council is either over-taxing or under-taxing the property owners of Aragon.

“It must be one or the other,” said Griggs. “and it is mathematically provable.”

Griggs challenged local news media to investigate the City Council’s malfeasance. He said that he has notified The Rockmart Journal and other newspapers in the area of the Council’s error.

“It is the local media’s responsibility to inform their readers of the Council’s failure to ‘do the math’,” said Griggs. “If they do not, they fail in their duty to inform the public.”