FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL ISSUES ADVISORY LEGAL OPINION ON MUNICIPALITIES,...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ......establishes a maximum millage rate on municipal ad...not a minimum millage rate. As you note...section 166.241(2), Florida Statutes, requires the...compute a proposed millage rate necessary to fund...on the maximum millage that may be imposed...section ...

CITY OF VALDOSTA AGAIN DECREASES MILLAGE RATE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 11, 2006 ;     431 words ......announced today that they are lowering the millage rate for the seventh time in the last 13...special called City Council meeting. The millage rate decrease means that property owners...requires three public hearings to raise the millage rate or to keep growth in the digest due...

Crystal River, Fla., tax idea jolts residents.

St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL);  July 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......additional revenue if it kept the city's millage rate the same. There was a problem, though...City Council a budget with a proposed millage rate of 6.19 mills. One mill equals $1 in...debate the budget and set the tentative millage rate at 6.19 mills. City staffers then would...

E. Lampeter officials OK budget

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  December 29, 2004 ;     127 words ......budget Dec. 21, with a new, lower millage rate of .822 mills, according to township officials. The new lower millage rate will keep most homeowners' annual...increased in value. By lowering the millage rate, supervisors were able to keep...

ALPHARETTA LOWERS MILLAGE RATE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 3, 2008 ;     282 words ......Alpharetta will significantly reduce the millage rate it applies to property taxes in Fiscal...requires the City to compute a "rollback millage rate" that would produce the same total revenue...projected reassessments, the City's millage rate for Fiscal Year 2009 will increase ...

Wakulla County, Fla., commission debates property tax break.

Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  September 27, 2004 ;     421 words ......year, which begins Oct. 1. Next year's millage rate has been tentatively set for 9.5 mills...had the opportunity to roll back the millage rate, Wakulla County Administrator Parrish...said the county can actually bring the millage rate down to 8.8 mills and generate the same...

Council pondering millage rate: FWB trying to balance services, programs...

Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL);  September 5, 2006 ;     545 words ......County has tentatively lowered its millage rate, Fort Walton Beach's rate may remain the same. The city's 4.97 millage rate could be a major topic at a pair...Tucker expressed concern that if the millage rate is dropped too significantly now...

MAYOR BAKER SUBMITS PRELIMINARY BUDGET AND RECOMMENDS MILLAGE REDUCTION

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 23, 2006 ;     274 words ......reduction in the operating property tax millage rate. Mayor Baker has proposed a preliminary operating millage rate of 6.6 mills, compared to the current...largest percentage general operating millage rate decrease in 22 years, and will result...

Crystal River may raise rate for property taxes.

St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL);  July 20, 2005 ;     622 words ......Monday night that the tentative millage rate should be 6.19, up from 5.60...10.5 percent increase. A 6.19 millage rate would pay for the city's operations...to adopt 6.19 as its tentative millage rate during a council meeting Monday...

School board sets millage rate meeting dates.

Savannah Morning News (Savannah, GA);  May 3, 2007 ;     251 words ......public meetings regarding the school millage rate. Finance Director Ron Wilson said the proposed millage rate will remain at 15.57. The board is...public meetings because the proposed millage rate will not be rolled back as it has in...

Property taxes to decrease for Oconee County, Ga., homeowners.

Athens Banner-Herald (Athens, GA);  July 28, 2005 ;     380 words ......commission to roll back its property tax millage rate by 0.25 mill. The reduction in the millage rate means that homeowners with a $100,000...10 less in property taxes in 2005. The millage rate in unincorporated Oconee County now stands...

Walton residents getting a tax break: County lowers millage rate by...

Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL);  September 26, 2006 ;     389 words ......night. The reduction brings the county's millage rate to 3.84. One mill equals $1 for every...hearing to express their desire for a millage rate reduction. One woman said her property...Meadows proposed cuts that would get the millage rate down while not cutting staff or the...

SOUTHAVEN PASSES SUPERMAJORITY RESOLUTION IN ORDER TO RAISE MILLAGE RATE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 17, 2007 ;     142 words ......supermajority vote in order to raise the millage rate for the City. "This measure will ensure...order for this Board to increase our millage rate, there must be near unanimous support...require a two-thirds vote to increase the millage rate," Davis continued. "By requiring a ...

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS CUTS MILLAGE RATE BY 23% SINCE 2000

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 26, 2007 ;     183 words ......in the Bond Fund. The Bond Fund millage rate was 0.064 mills in 2006. By comparison, Cobb County's 2006 millage rate had increased slightly from 2000...DeKalb County's 2007 General fund millage rate has decreased by 16 percent since...

Okaloosa hopes tax break makes cents: Officials say millage rate decrease...

Northwest Florida Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, FL);  August 3, 2006 ;     506 words ......commissioners have approved a lower tentative millage rate, it remains to be seen if the savings will...proposed sales tax, Roberts stressed the millage rate will still drop. The millage rate is not predicated on the sales tax passing...