When tax bills are mailed in October, Dade County, Ga., residents who pay school taxes can expect to see their payments go up.
By a 3-2 vote, the Dade County Schools board on Monday night approved a 1.25-mill increase to the current millage rate of 13.92, which brings the school’s total rate to 15.17 mills.
For someone living in a $125,000 home, that means an additional $56 annually in taxes. It will generate $493,750 for the school district, Superintendent Shawn Tobin said.
Tobin compared the tax hike of $4.60 a month favorably to the $4.99-plus-tax that he said a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder meal costs locally.
“It’s more expensive to get an extra-value Quarter Pounder every month than it is to pay the millage increase,” he said.