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Brookhaven staff recommends holding general millage at 2.74 mills; council hears proposal to raise Special Tax District to 12 mills for I‑85 pedestrian bridge
Summary
At a second public hearing on millage rates, city staff recommended keeping the general M&O millage at 2.74 mills and the debt service millage at 0.47 mills, and proposed raising a Special Tax District rate from 6.45 to 12 mills to generate roughly $1.7 million for a pedestrian bridge over I‑85; council took no final vote at the hearing.
Brookhaven opened a second public hearing on proposed 2025 millage rates where city staff recommended keeping the general maintenance and operations millage at 2.74 mills and the debt‑service (bond) millage at 0.47 mills while proposing a separate Special Tax District increase to pay for a pedestrian bridge over I‑85.
The presentation to Mayor John Park and council members laid out the city’s fiscal picture: the budget adopted earlier this year totaled $13,970,000, but the county digest at 2.74 mills is projected to yield about $13,193,000—an estimated shortfall of roughly $776,000. A presenter identified in the transcript as Speaker 3 told the council that residential property makes up roughly two‑thirds of the tax base and commercial property the other third, and that…
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