Finance Committee Sends FY 2017 Budget to Dougherty County School Board

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

The Dougherty County School Board finance committee on Tuesday approved moving a tentative $209,968,844 million Fiscal Year 2017 budget to the full School Board for review.

The budget projects a decrease in local tax revenue of $407,085, or 1.1 percent, from the 2015 county tax digest, but school system CFO Ken Dyer said the system will not request raising the millage rate from the current level of 18.445 mills. That rate has been in place since 2008.

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