Haralson County approves 2025 millage rates including board of education and special district levies
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Summary
At a Haralson County meeting, officials read and approved a resolution setting 2025 property tax millage rates: 6.869 mills for county property, 10.494 mills for the board of education, and several special-service district levies; routine procedural motions were also approved.
Unidentified Speaker 1, the presiding official, opened the Haralson County meeting and asked the clerk to read a resolution setting the county's 2025 property tax rates. Unidentified Speaker 2 (the clerk) read the resolution that, as presented, fixes the county millage for 2025 and lists rates for special service districts and the board of education.
According to the resolution read by the clerk, the county's 2025 millage rates include: 6.869 mills per $1,000 of taxable property for the unincorporated area (the resolution stated the same rate would apply to the incorporated areas named in the reading); a board of education rate of 10.494 mills per $1,000; a recreation special service district rate of 0.5 mills (50¢ per $1,000) in the unincorporated area noted; a fire special service district tax of 2.82 mills per $1,000 in the unincorporated area of Tallapoosa; an additional fire service delivery tax of 4.65 mills per $1,000 in Buchanan, Waco and Temple; and a sanitation special service district tax of 0.43 mills per $1,000 in Waco. The clerk prefaced the reading with the phrase, “It is ordered that the tax rate of said county for purposes for the year 2025 … is hereby fixed,” and then recited the listed rates.
After the reading, Unidentified Speaker 1 asked whether there were any questions. No questions were recorded in the transcript. Unidentified Speaker 1 then moved to accept the resolution to levy the taxes for 2025; the motion was seconded and approved by a raised-hand/voice vote. The transcript records the board adopted the resolution but does not include a roll-call tally or the names of the mover and seconder.
Votes at a glance - Waive reading of previous minutes: motion moved, seconded, approved by raised-hand/voice vote (SEG 018–024). No roll-call tally recorded. - Approve agenda as written: motion moved, seconded, approved by raised-hand/voice vote (SEG 025–028). No roll-call tally recorded. - Adopt resolution to levy 2025 taxes (millage rates as read): motion moved, seconded, approved by raised-hand/voice vote (SEG 071–078). No roll-call tally recorded. - Adjourn meeting: motion moved, seconded, approved by raised-hand/voice vote (SEG 079–085).
The meeting record in the transcript ends with the board adjourning. The resolution text as read provides the millage amounts and the geographic application (unincorporated area and several incorporated towns); the transcript contains some transcription errors in wording (for example, “meals” used where the resolution clearly intended “mills”) and does not include individual member votes or the names of those who moved or seconded motions. The clerk's reading in the transcript is the source for the millage figures reported above.
