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Muskegon County sets 2025 millage rates; Headley rollback reduces operating millage to 5.5069
Summary
The Ways and Means Committee approved millage rates to be levied in July and December 2025, reflecting a Headley amendment rollback that lowers the county's operating millage but yields a modest increase in dollars collected due to rising property values.
Muskegon County's Ways and Means Committee on May 13 approved millage rates that will be levied in July and December 2025, setting the county operating rate at 5.5069 mills while authorizing separate levies for the Lakeshore Museum Center, veterans services, central dispatch and senior services.
Finance Director Angela Gashevsky told commissioners the county's equalized value increased nearly 11% in 2025 while taxable value rose about 7.9%, but the Headley amendment ties allowed levy growth to inflation. "The taxable value ... went up about 7.9% for 2025. The inflation rate for the same period is about 3.1%. So that really caps us," Gashevsky said.
Gashevsky explained that because…
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