 UPDATED:
03/02/2008
Lumpkin County Schools
Summary: For the past
three years, the Lumpkin County School system has overtaxed the property owners
of this north Georgia county via an arbitrarily-set millage.
In 2003, the School Board budget
required $9.72 million in tax dollars. However, it set a millage rate that,
by its own computation, would take in $10.24 million. The millage rate was
13.25-- it should have been 12.581.
In 2004, the budget required
$10.1 million in tax dollars to balance, yet the rate adopted by the School
Board (13.25) would generate $10.36 million. The rate should have been
12.919.
For 2005, the gap between the
rate that should have been adopted and the rate that the Board actually adopted
narrowed, but the tax rate was still too high. Had the School Board "done the
math," the rate would have been 14.118 instead of the 14.25 rate that
they adopted last year.
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