Commissioners approve $31.6 million budget, millage rate of 10.75 remains unchanged

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WHITE COUNTY, Ga. — The White County Board of Commissioners approved a $31.6 million FY 2023 budget Monday.

Despite an inflation rate of 8.6 percent — the nation’s highest in four decades — and the rising cost of labor and construction materials, commissioners maintained a millage rate of 10.75 percent for the fifth consecutive year. That rate reflects only the county’s portion of the overall millage rate and does not include the school system’s millage rate.

“The county has had to absorb many increases as most of us have had to do in our personal lives,” Chairman Travis Turner noted. Turner pointed to a $250,000 increase in the ambulance service contract with Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

The General Fund budget is $25,137,598 with Separate Funds including Hotel/Motel,  E911, and the Drug Task Force that total $6,459,105. The total budget of $31,596,703 represents a 13 percent increase over the FY 2022 budget and includes the addition of new positions, an increase in the EMS ambulance services contract, COLA and merit increases for county employees and the rising cost of Health Insurance premiums.

Expenditures are estimated at $25,137,598 with revenues expected to be $24,952,402 which will require moving $185,196 from the Fund Balance, leaving a balance of $6,752,868.

Approximately 48 percent ($12,140,436) will be used to fund Public Safety, which includes Animal Control, Coroner, Jail, Sheriff’s Office, EMS, EMA, E911 and Fire.

The county will hold three public hearings next month before approving the overall millage rate.

 

 

 

 

 

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