Charles Oliver
Dalton Dailey Citizen
Local News
September 8, 2010
The Dalton City Council voted 4-0 on Tuesday to cut the city’s property tax rate to 2.875 mills from 2.974 mills.
“This will help us with our plans to make this one of the best places to do business in Georgia,” said Mayor David Pennington. “We started this process about two-and-a-half years ago. We are one of the last and part of a very small handful of cities that assesses property at 100 percent of fair value, not 40 percent. So you really have to multiply our millage rate by 2.5 to compare it to the county or to surrounding cities. When we started, the (total) rate was 33 mills. Now, it’s 31, and we’d like to get it under 30 mills. Obviously, that will take the cooperation of our county government and our city school system.”
Pennington was one of several people who asked the members of the Dalton Board of Education to reconsider their plans to raise their property tax rate to 8.134 mills from 7.845 mills. That move, expected to be approved during a school board meeting on Monday, Sept. 13, at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, is expected to raise another $1 million from city taxpayers.
The Whitfield County Board of Commissioners has not set its 2010 property tax rate yet, but Chairman Mike Babb said Tuesday the board does not expect to raise the county’s rate this year.
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