LUMPKIN COUNTY, Ga.- The Lumpkin County Board of Commissioners voted to approve the budget and millage rate at a special call meeting on Aug. 23.

The Commissioners met with Finance Director Abby Branan and County Manager Alan Ours on July 16 to review the budget and make changes where they could. To view that meeting visit https://lumpkin.fetchyournews.com/2022/07/16/budget-meeting-for-fy23-budget/.

The budget and millage were also placed on the county website for citizens to review. That information can be found at https://www.lumpkincounty.gov/635/2023-Budget.

The millage rate breakdown.

The county has held the three required meetings to give the community time to comment on the proposed budget or millage rate. The millage rate that was approved was incorporated areas 11.280, unincorporated areas 09.389, school district 14.710, reservoir area 00.206, and the planning district 00.452.

This will be a tax increase of 17.95% since the county could not take the full rollback rate of 9.563. The net digest from this millage rate is $249,178,984.

The budget breakdown.

The budget that was adopted is balanced. The expected revenues and expenditures will be $26,477,334. This is a $2,134,769 increase over last fiscal year’s budget.

To review the full breakdown of both the millage rate and the budget please visit http://lumpkincountyga.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1661&Inline=True.