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Liberty County adopts 2025 millage rates, approves budget amendment and other county actions
Summary
After a public hearing, the Board of Commissioners set county millage rates for unincorporated and incorporated areas, approved a FY2026 budget amendment that returns $636,748 to fund balance, and adopted several related measures including a floodplain freeboard increase.
The Liberty County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday adopted the county's 2025 millage rates after a public hearing that focused on digest growth, exemptions and the county's heavy public-safety burden.
At the public hearing Samantha Richardson, the county's finance director, told residents the net digest rose 8.17% for 2026 (an increase of about $213 million), while countywide exemptions grew roughly 13% to about $734 million. Richardson said those exemptions (Freeport, disabled veterans, and a local freeze program) account for about 80% of the exemption total and significantly reduce the local taxable base. She also pointed to Fort Stewart's tax-exempt federal land and Liberty County's coastal and marshland geography as structural reasons the county's millage can be higher than many other Georgia…
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