SCCPSS Special Board Meeting on Wednesday

Members of the Savannah-Chatham County School Board will meet on Wednesday morning to vote on the 2009 calendar year (2010 fiscal year) recommmended tax millage levy.

I spoke with the school district's director of budgeting, Larry Jackson, today about the millage rate. When the district received the millage rate from the tax assessor's office. They had already taken decreased property values into account when they did the millage rate and it won’t be a change for the school district. It will stay at 13.404 mills. Jackson says the tax assessor's office included the lower property values in their calculation. Jackson says he doesn’t expect the amount of tax money the district is receiving for schools to change.

The board is expected to approve the following. (from their agenda)

Under Georgia law, the Board of Public Education for the City of Savannah and the County of Chatham is a “recommending authority” that exercises the power to cause the levying authority (the Chatham County Commission) to levy property taxes to carry out the purposes of the Board of Education. In accordance with law and policy, it is necessary for the Board to adopt the recommended Calendar Year 2009 millage rates for both Maintenance and Operations and General Obligation Bond indebtedness and their corresponding levies on taxable property.

The Calendar Year 2009 millage rates used in the projection of revenues for the Fiscal Year 2010 budget are 13.404 mills for maintenance and operations and 0.000 mills for general obligation debt, for a combined millage rate of 13.404 mills. These millage rates represent no change from the rates levied in Calendar Year 2008. These rates are in compliance with the rollback rate calculated by the Tax Assessor as required by O.C.G.A. 48-5-32.1. Board action is required at this time to meet statutory time lines for millage adoption. Accordingly, staff proposes these recommended millage rates be adopted.

The board will also hear a presentation on "It's about time - 9-12 mathematics learning resources."

For an agenda, click here.