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Spalding County commissioners form study group after heated debate over local homestead-exemption bill
Summary
At a special-called March 2 workshop, the Spalding County Board of Commissioners voted 4–1 to form a study group to examine a proposed Floating Homestead Exemption Act after objections from the Griffin-Spalding County Board of Education and legal concerns from the county attorney about the bill's drafting and authority.
At a special-called workshop on March 2, the Spalding County Board of Commissioners voted 4–1 to create a study group with local legislators to examine a proposed local enabling bill called the Floating Homestead Exemption Act rather than immediately endorse or seek immediate changes to the state draft.
Commissioner James Dutton (District 2, vice chair), who introduced the idea, said the draft would give the county an optional tool to create an annual, adjustable homestead exemption for eligible owner-occupied single-family residences and stressed the measure would be discretionary. "Give us the second lever," Dutton said, arguing the authority would let the county offer homeowner relief without lowering the millage rate and thereby…
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