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Stonecrest holds public hearing on proposed 2025 millage rate, tentatively unchanged at 1.257 mills
Summary
City held two public hearings on a proposed 2025 millage rate of 1.257 mills; staff said the city’s levy remains unchanged and any tax increase is driven by county reassessments. The council opened and closed the hearings with no public speakers; a final hearing is scheduled for June 26.
Stonecrest city officials held a public hearing June 9 on the proposed 2025 millage rate of 1.257 mills, a figure city staff said will remain the same as 2024 but will produce an estimated 1.53% tax increase on properties that saw reassessments by the county.
The hearing matters because state law requires additional notice and hearings when a proposed millage exceeds the state-calculated rollback rate; staff said that classification makes the proposal legally a “property tax increase” even though the city’s levy is unchanged.
Eric Hawkins, the city’s revenue manager, presented the proposal and described the legal context:…
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