City of Toccoa Keeps Millage Rate at 6 Mills

Toccoa’s City Commission keeps the millage rate the same for 2015.
At Monday night’s Toccoa City Commission meeting commissioners approved the proposal to keep the millage rate the same as the last three years at a rate of 6 mills. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse explains; “Taylor Business Systems, the software provider for property taxes, has scheduled our taxes to be mailed September 11th with a due date of November 15, 2015. The gross digest for the city of Toccoa is $177,963,822. That is 2.67% less than the digest for last year, a difference of $28,529. “

The net taxes levied by the city, is one million, thirty-nine thousand, eight hundred and ninety seven dollars.

Also at Monday’s meeting Commissioners approved consideration of resolution and letter of commitment for the Appalachian Regional Commission pre-grant application for a marquee at the Schaefer Center on Doyle Street in Downtown Toccoa. The Estimated cost of the marquee is $92,590 with 50% of the funding to come through the ARC grant, and the city responsible for a local match of $46,295.