The Habersham County Commission will hold a public hearing on the county’s proposed Fiscal Year 2023 budget at 6 p.m. Monday, June 20. Commissioners are expected to adopt the budget at their regularly scheduled meeting immediately following the hearing.
A copy of the $65 million budget is available on the county website or by clicking here.
Taxpayers will have to wait on millage rate
Even after the budget’s approved, property owners still won’t know how much they’ll owe. In recent years, county commissioners have tried to hold the budget and millage rate hearings around the same time so they can be adopted at the same meeting, but that didn’t happen this year.
The state requires counties to adopt their budgets by June 30, but as of June 13, Habersham’s tax digest was still incomplete. Habersham County Clerk Brandalin Carnes says the tax assessor’s office has had a “challenging reassessment season” this year.
“They have not been able to give complete enough numbers to be able to make a determination regarding setting the millage rate by the state budget adoption deadline of June 30,” she says. Once the final digest numbers are in, commissioners will hold the required number of public hearings before setting the millage rate.
VIEW: Habersham County’s Proposed FY ’23 budget
Commissioners will hold a work session at 4:30 p.m. before Monday night’s budget hearing to discuss a new location for the Habersham County Animal Shelter. The new shelter was to be built on the site of the old county landfill, but concerns over methane gas forced it to be moved.
All three meetings on June 20 will be held in the jury assembly room at the Habersham County Courthouse at 295 Llewellyn Street in Clarkesville.
June 20 HABCO Commission agendas:
Anyone with questions about the proposed budget may contact the Habersham County Finance Department at 706-839-0202.
