Next Town Hall Meeting On Proposed Millage Hike: Saturday In Cobb

MARIETTA, GA -- Cobb Commission Chairman Mike Boyce plans to host town hall meetings on the county's 2017 millage rate, Patch has learned. The town halls, four of them total, are being held at four different locations around the county. The next one is Saturday, July 22 in Mableton.

The move comes after the Board of Commissioners announced last week that it intends to raise property taxes it will levy this year, over the rollback millage rate, by 10.20 percent in the County Maintenance & Operations (General) Fund.

"The Cobb County Board of Commissioners (BOC) is proposing the property tax millage rate of the General Fund be set at 6.89; the Fire millage rate at 2.96; the Debt Service (Bond Fund) millage at 0.13; the Cumberland Special Services District II millage rate at 2.41, and the Six Flags Special Service District millage rate at 3.50," the county says in a news release.

The millage is tied to Cobb's property values, which are determined by the Board of Tax Assessors. The board's rationale is that Cobb's real estate market is on the upswing, thus prompting an increase in the county’s property tax digest.

Below is the schedule for the four town hall meetings later this month: