City adopts FY2025 Budget: No Citizens Spoke at Public Hearing

At the June 10 meeting of the Toccoa City Commission, the second required public hearing on the tentative FY2025 city budget was held.

No citizens spoke in favor of or in objection to the proposed budget during the public hearing, and commissioners unanimously voted to adopt the $54 Million budget. 

As previously reported by WNEG News, the total of the Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Budget for all Funds is $53,956,965, and includes a rate increase for property tax of 0.8 mills, sewer rate increases of $2.00 per base, solid waste service increases of $2 per rollout or 10% on commercial accounts, and Natural Gas increases that would bump the residential base rate from $11 to $20, the commercial/industrial base rate from $22 to $50, and the interruptible service base rate from $201 to $300, plus a proposed incremental increase of $0.03 per CCF. The proposed budget also includes an increase in sewer and water tap fees, doubling the cost of a typical residential water line from $750 to $1,500. Larger line tap fees would also double, and sewer tap fees for typical residential lines would jump from $1,000 to $2,000. Continued rising costs associated with water and wastewater service, including increases in costs of chemicals, required upgrades to the delivery systems, and the cost of maintenance on aging equipment all contribute to the need for the increases, according to city officials.

Currently, the city’s millage rate is 5.2 mills; the adopted budget would increase that by slightly more than 13 percent, to 6.0 mills.  

For more information, contact city hall at  (706) 886-8451.