First Public Hearing for Toccoa FY 2025 Budget Scheduled for Tomorrow: Millage Rate Increase Proposed

The First Public Hearing for the Toccoa FY 2025 Budget will be held tomorrow at a 5 p.m. meeting. 

The Toccoa City Commission will meet twice Tomorrow, May 21. The first meeting will be a work session at 3 p.m., with a regular scheduled meeting following at 5 p.m. Both meetings will take place at City Hall, 92 N. Alexander Street. Both meetings are a break from the normal schedule of the fourth Monday of the month due to the upcoming Memorial Day Holiday.

On the agenda for the 3 p.m. work session is a discussion of code enforcement and a presentation from Homeland Security Representative Dave Shanks. A discussion of the Ritz Expansion is also scheduled. 

On the agenda for the 5 p.m. regular meeting is the first reading and public hearing of the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget. According to agenda documentation, the total of the Proposed Fiscal Year 2025 Budget for all Funds is $2,941,843, and includes a rate increase for property tax of 0.8 mills, sewer rate increases of $2.00 per base, water and sewer tap fee increases, 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.

According to the draft of the resolution that would be approved when commissioners approve the budget, the $53,956,965 FY 2025 proposed budget includes:

General Fund: $12,445,267 

Water/Wastewater Fund: $17,489,916

Natural Gas Fund: $14,263,449

Solid Waste Fund: $  4,392,311

Lake Toccoa Facilities Fund $     494,449

Total Operating Funds $46,085,392

 

Reserve Fund Budgets $ 2,941,843

Special Revenue Funds Budget $ 4,929,730

Total Proposed FY2025 Budgets for All Funds $53,956,965

 

Attached below is a comparison of the FY2024 Approved Budget numbers compared to the Proposed FY2025 Budget numbers.

Also on the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting are considered for an Alcoholic Beverage License for The Farmer and the Butcher at 176 N. Pond Street, consideration of the 2024 Local Road Assistance Administration Grant, Consideration of City Hall Renovations, and consideration of rescheduling The June 24 meeting date to June 18. 

Members of the public are invited to attend the meeting, and are welcome to address commissioners during the Public Comment section of the meeting.  Contact information for commissioners is available attached to this story on wnegradio.com.

	Gail Fry	Mayor	706.599.0205	[email protected]
	Terry Carter	Vice-Mayor	706.491.2550	[email protected]
	Evan Hellenga	Commissioner	706.491.0527	[email protected]
	Michelle Jamieson	Commissioner	706.491.7418	[email protected]
	Ron Matheson	Commissioner	706.244.0498	[email protected]