 UPDATED:
03/02/2008
Muscogee County Schools
Current Status: The
Muscogee School System has adopted a mathematically-incorrect millage rate for fiscal year 2006 of
23.37. Members of the staff and the School Board have protested, by email,
our inclusion of the school system in our "Hall of
Millage Rate Shame."
Summary: The Muscogee
County School system has set the same millage rate (23.37) for the past 15
years. For at least the past three years, the school system has overtaxed
the property owners of the middle Georgia county. For fiscal year 2006, they did it again.
Just last year, the school system
budget required $70,869,338 from taxpayers to balance the budget.
The School Board set a millage rate that, based on their data, would take in
$4.78 million more. The school system finished the year with a
$10.55 million surplus.
Had the Muscogee School District
set a mathematically correct millage rate last year (21.892), the owner of a
$150,000 home would have paid $88.68 less in property taxes for
schools.
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