Mayor Lester Miller recommending property tax reduction

Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller is recommending a reduction in the property tax rate to 9.9 mills, which is down 0.823 mills from last year and 10.431 since he took office.

This millage rate - even with the reduction - is funding pay increases for employees (including for public safety like sheriff deputies and firefighters), as well as increases in departmental and focus area funding.

"I am so excited about the direction we are heading in," said Mayor Miller. "It's not every day that a community can say they've increased all their focus points by millions of dollars per department, given raises to all of their employees, continue to support public safety, while having some of the best infrastructure we have in place, and at the same time be able to decrease our tax rate by 52%."

In the last four years, funding for public safety increased nearly $16 million, recreation and beautification increased more than $4.5 million, and economic development has increased more than $4.5 million.

The Board of Commissioners is set to vote on the millage rate for Fiscal Year 2025 (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025) at a meeting on September 3, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will be held in Commission Chambers at City Hall (700 Poplar Street) and will be broadcast live at www.facebook.com/maconbibbcounty.

To view all budget information - including the original presentation and videos from the meetings - click here. Below is the Property Tax Digest and 5 Year History of Levy that is being published in The Telegraphon Sunday, August 25, 2024.