Dougherty County Commission Formally OKs Millage Rate Increase
Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Despite entreaties from three citizens during a public hearing Monday morning, the Dougherty County Commission voted formally to raise the county’s millage rate 0.75 mill to 12.594 mills to finance a cost-of-living pay increase for county employees.
District 1 Commissioner Lamar Hudgins, who serves as chairman of the commission’s Finance Committee, called comparisons of county digests a “fallacy” after developer William Hancock said Dougherty had one of the highest tax digests in the state.
