The county published this notice for a November vote to extend SPLOST funding. SPLOST uses 1% of county sales tax to fund county improvements.

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The Hancock BOC approved a budget of $15,738,369.40 and voted to implement the mill rate for 2025.  Here is the breakdown of the announced millage rate for 2025 compared to 2024: 

• 2024 Mill Rate:
  • BOC 22.626
  • BOE 14.13
  • Total 2024:  36.757
• 2025 Mill Rate
  • BOC 22.556
  • BOE 14.087
  • Total 2025:  36.643

This is a reduction of 0.114 on the total mill rate from 2024 to 2025 which is not much considering we were all hopeful the new board would be able to reduce spending to create a bigger impact. 

The HCPOA officers are still committed to sending letters and making phone calls to try and find someone in a higher state office that is willing to listen to our concerns and help us put pressure on the commissioners.  I think we all would like more transparency as to where our tax dollars are being spent. 

During the budget process it was evident that they did not change much in the way of how they classify things and there is still a lot of room to improve in the area of miscellaneous/contingency being a category.    

We encourage you all to keep attending meetings if you can. You don't have to speak for your presence to make an impact to the commissioners. 

This is the link to the meeting posted on FB is limited to the time allowed per HCBOC:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C8v4h7nB9/